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August 9, 2011 Dr. Robert C. Froh Associate Director of The August 9, 2011 Dr. Robert C. Froh Associate Director of the Commission NEASC CIHE 209 Burlington Road, Suite 201 Bedford, MA 01730-1433 Dear Dr. Froh, Please find the University of Connecticut’s fifth-year interim report for NEASC CIHE enclosed. The central administration and I would appreciate any insights or suggestions you could offer to help us better our institutional goals and efforts as we strive toward greater success and excellence with outstanding students, alumni, faculty and staff. Thank you for your time, willingness and attention to the enclosed document. Sincerely, Karla Fox Professor and Executive Director Regional: Avery Point, Greater Hartford, Stamford, Torrington, Waterbury Health Center: Farmington Prepared for New England Associate of Schools & Colleges Commission on Institutions of Higher Education Introduction Areas of Particular Emphasis Standard One Mission & Purposes Standard Two Planning & Evaluation Standard Three Organization & Governance Standard Four Academic Program Standard Five Faculty Standard Six Students Standard Seven Library & Information Resources Standard Eight Physical & Technological Resources Standard Nine Financial Resources Standard 10 Public Disclosure Standard Eleven Integrity Introduction The following pages of the University of Connecticut’s Fifth-Year Report cover an exciting and productive time. The report’s content spans from 2007-2011, highlighting the continued support of the State of Connecticut, the expansion of the quality and quantity of our students and academic programs, the ongoing improvements and renovations to the Storrs, Law and Regional campuses, and the tenures of former President Michael Hogan, Interim President Philip Austin and the recent arrival of President Susan Herbst in June of 2011. In preparation of future NEASC accreditation visits and reports, the implementation of updated Program Reviews and the advancement of assessing Student Learning Outcomes, the Board of Trustees established the Office of Institutional Effectiveness in April of 2011. In late 2010, the Provost assigned Dr. Karla H. Fox, the chair of the 2006 Ten-Year Report Committee, with the duty of assembling a Fifth-Year Committee and self-study document. Dr. Anne Hiskes was assigned as co-chair of the committee, responsible for the Areas of Particular Emphasis and Standard Two. A 17-member Fifth-Year Report Committee was assembled and met in February, April and May of 2011 to discuss the general aims and goals of the report, first drafts and integration and consolidation of the eleven Standards. Committee members shared their insights and resources while working through the drafting process. Many members interviewed different faculty, staff and administrators in their pursuit of accurate and well-researched data and information. The names of the Committee members and their assigned Standard are below: Standards Name Department 1 Mission & Purposes Karla Fox Institutional Effectiveness 2 Planning & Evaluation Anne Hiskes Philosophy 3 Organization & Governance David Yalof Political Science 4 Academic Program Undergraduate Yuhang Rong Education General Education Hedley Freake Nutritional Sciences Major or Concentration Hedley Freake Nutritional Sciences Graduate Lee Aggison Graduate School Integrity Award Credit Michael Alfultis Avery Point Campus Assessment Lauren Schlesselmann Pharmacy 5 Faculty Brad Wright Sociology 6 Students Denielle Burl Student Affairs 7 Library & Information Resources Steve Parks Institute for Teaching and Learning 8 Physical & Tech. Resources Cameron Faustman Agriculture 9 Financial Resources Suresh Nair Business 10 Public Disclosure Randall Walikonis Physiology & Neurobiology 11 Integrity Mehdi Anwar Engineering Ex Officio Pam Roelfs Institutional Research Eric Soulsby Institutional Effectiveness Staff Brandon Murray Institutional Effectiveness Following the submission of second drafts in May, the Office of Institutional Effectiveness, which encompasses the Office of Accreditation, launched a new accreditation website with drafts of each Standard, names of committee members and their respective Standard, meeting agendas and minutes, the NEASC Fifth-Year Report procedures and instructional letter to former President Hogan and a link to the comment or complaint section on the NEASC CIHE website. The Office of Accreditation, with links to the 2006 and 2011 NEASC Reports, is available here: http://www.accreditation.uconn.edu/. Beyond this introduction, the report consists of the Areas of Particular Emphasis, the eleven Standards and related Appendices. The documents in the Appendices are free-standing, independent of the narrative flow. Within the Standards, Exhibits are referred to, providing detail and data that could not fit within the main narrative of the report. The report, however, is fully comprehensible without the exhibits. Throughout the editing and revising process – and with the implementation of exhibits – the committee strove to meet the goal of staying within the recommended page limit. Regardless, the report that follows represents a united effort by the entire University of Connecticut community, and we look forward to future progress, future successes and many years of life-long learning. Response to Areas Identified for Particular Emphasis In addition to providing an update with respect to the eleven standards, the Commission requested that the Five-Year Interim Report specifically address the following issues: a. Refining the Academic Plan b. Aligning Human Resources, Particularly Faculty Resources, with the Plan c. Developing and Implementing Formal Means of Assessing Student Learning d. Sustaining Financial Equilibrium in Changing Financial Times The following sections describe the University’s efforts and outcomes in addressing these issues. a. Refining the Academic Plan “It is critical for the University to remain committed to its new planning process and to see that process through to completion” At the time of the 2005 Self-Study and visit by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges evaluation team, the University was in the early stages of developing a new academic plan to replace the 2003 Academic Plan which had been deemed lacking in clarity and direction by the NEASC evaluation team. On September 23, 2008 the Board of Trustees adopted a revised plan “Our World, Our People, and Our Future: The University of Connecticut Academic Plan 2009-2014” (http://academicplan.uconn.edu/). The plan identifies five academic goals (Undergraduate Education; Graduate and Professional Education; Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity; Diversity; and Public Engagement) and a sixth goal to establish administrative, infrastructural, and budget systems designed to realize the academic goals. The Plan identifies twenty-three strategies for realizing the six goals and guiding the University in fulfilling its potential as the state’s flagship land-grant university and a top- twenty public research university. Appendix I of the plan provides metrics for measuring progress towards the identified goals. The academic plan also identifies three focused interdisciplinary areas of excellence to guide development across the five academic goals. These focused areas of excellence are The Environment; Health and Human Behavior; and Art, Culture, and Society from a Local to a Global Perspective. Following the adoption of the University’s Academic Plan, the Provost asked that each of the twelve schools and colleges of the University, as well as other units reporting to Academic Affairs, create or refine their academic plans to align with the University’s. Refinement and development of the University’s Academic Plan has been ongoing since its approval in 2008 as the institution seeks effectively to achieve its goals in a changing fiscal environment. The Provost has delegated responsibility for refining and implementing specific areas of the plan to several of the School and College Deans, as described below. Updates on refinements of the Academic Plan and new recommendations for implementation are communicated regularly by the Provost to the Board of Trustees at meetings of the Board of Trustees Academic Affairs Committee, as he did in September of 2009, March, April and August of 2010 and January and September of 2011. Moreover, the Provost updates the University Community through meetings of the University Senate, e-mail notifications, and postings on the Provost’s website. Areas of Particular Emphasis - 1 More on alignment with and organizational changes due to the Academic Plan may be found in Standard Two, Planning and Evaluation. Internationalization Internationalization is a theme that intersects with each of the five academic goals and the three interdisciplinary areas of focused excellence. Strategy B of Goal 1 for Undergraduate Education calls for preparing our students for success and leadership in an increasingly diverse and global society, and Strategy A of Goal 3 for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity calls for developing cultural understanding through research, scholarship, and creative activity involving internationalization. In 2009 the Provost constituted the International Executive Council, chaired by the Dean of the School of Business, to draft a strategic plan for the internationalization of the University. The report of this committee, submitted in July 2010, can be found at http://provost.uconn.edu/reports/pdf/IEC%20Final%20Report%20v2.pdf. The report recommends strategies and resources in the four areas of undergraduate
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