Cascades Campus 2007 2008

OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY CASCADES CAMPUS

Academic Report 2007-2008

PROGRAMMATIC ACHIEVEMENTS—LIST INITIATIVES UNDERTAKEN AND OUTCOMES ACHIEVED IN THE FOLLOWING AREAS:

Student engagement and success  A distinguished student was selected by faculty for each discipline and a reception was held the day before graduation in their honor for family and friends on campus for the first time  Several counseling students advocated for Suicide Awareness and Prevention training at the university and school districts in Central Oregon as part of their course work. Two became official trainers and have continued their work long after the course ended.  A student government organization was launched and bylaws adopted.  Counseling Interns provided services for sites that would not otherwise have counselors, including a homeless shelter, a Volunteers in Medicine clinic and an alternative high school.  Student teachers served in 20 of 26 elementary schools in the Bend La Pine, Redmond and Crook County Districts.  A Student Marketing Group was launched this AY, providing opportunity for students to support local organizations in their marketing efforts, helping the community while enhancing the student experience. David Knuff was responsible for getting this Group organized and launched.  A TOL student led recreational/educational activities during the President’s Weekend in Central Oregon to rave reviews.  Students in the BFA Program are celebrated through a BFA Show in the COCC Library that runs from May through June each year and is arranged by Sandy Brooke  Matt Shinderman, leading a group of students, completed a carbon footprint for the City of Bend, helping the city meet Kyoto protocol standards for emissions.

Research and its impact  Neil Browne and Ron Reuter were granted promotion and tenure based on their research, teaching and service.  The counseling faculty collaborated on a research survey with faculty from the main campus and with Lewis and Clark University to identify continuing education subjects needed by school counselors to meet licensure requirements.  Jay Casbon presented at the American Educational Research Association Conference in New York in March 2008 on “Programs, Principals, and Practitioners: Alignment of Expectations and Realities”.  Jay Casbon is a co-author on a research article to appear in the Fall 2008 Kappan entitled: “Caught in the Middle Again: Accountability and the Changing Practice of Middle School Teachers”.  Kathleen Cowin presented at the University of California, Santa Cruz, New Teacher Center National Symposium on “The Power of Storytelling to Enhance Mentoring: Creating a Supportive Environment for Beginning Teachers”.  Kreg Lindberg had an article accepted in Forest Science, the most prestigious forestry journal, and completed several research reports for Oregon State Parks and the Bureau of Land Management projects. The underlying research, and resulting reports, cover topical areas of significant policy importance. For example, the State Parks research was noted in the National Park Service Land and Water Conservation Fund annual report.  Neil Browne had a book published in 2007: The World in Which We Occur: John Dewey, Pragmatist Ecology, and American Ecological Writing in the Twentieth Century. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. He also had articles published in Connotations: A Journal for Critical Debate, Narratives of Community: Women’s Short Story Sequences and in the High Desert Journal.  Natalie Dollar had an article published in All Graceful Instruments: The Contexts of the Grateful Dead Phenomenon (Cambridge Scholars Press).  Sandy Brooke has had a range of solo, two person and group exhibitions of her work, including solo exhibitions at the Roger W. Rogers Gallery at Willamette University and one sponsored by The High Desert Journal and TBD Advertising, and group exhibitions at the Berkeley Art Center, the 2007 National Open Exhibition in Long Beach, and at the Blanche Ames National Juried Art Exhibition in Sharon, Massachusetts. She was awarded the Jeff and Nichole Schott Artist Award at the ARTSLATE juried invitational in Condon, Oregon.

OSU Cascades Academic Report 07-08 Page 1 of 5  Librarian Kate Gronemyer and colleague Hannah Rempel wrote, "infodoodads: Building a New Blog Community" for the publication, Computers in Libraries. In the article they describe the innovative blog they and several other OSU librarians have developed that has drawn over 1100 subscribers.  Publications by HDFS faculty have included three distance education CD-ROMs with associated textbooks, two journal articles in peer-review journals and multiple publications in community newsletters and reports.  Neil Browne presented papers at the Conference of the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment at Wofford College in SC., and at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco.  Natalie Dollar presented papers at the Unbroken Chain: The Grateful Dead in Music, Memory, and Culture Symposium at the University of Massachusetts, one of ten invited speakers, and at the annual meeting of the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association in Albuquerque.  David Knuff had a paper accepted and presented at the European Association for Consumer Research in Milan. The paper was regarding the impact of self-prophecy related to self-esteem.  Henry Sayre published a six-volume humanities text, the largest selling in the country. The text was awarded Best Design for a Book Series, New York Book Designers, New York Book Show, March 2008  Julie Elston had an article published with Laura Rondi in Statistica Applicata (Italian Journal of Applied Statistics).  Julie Elston was the PI for a grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, on “Financing Entrepreneurship”.

Outreach and engagement  Presentations that inform the public, broaden OSU Cascades presence in the broader community, enhance Central Oregon’s cultural profile and highlight faculty academic credentials. have been regularly made by faculty in the Bend community and beyond. Examples include: o Natalie Dollar; “Songs of our own”: The Grateful Dead and the Deadhead community. Invited presentation for the Seismic Sixties Series, Deschutes Public Library o Neil Brown; “Cormac McCarthy’s The Road.” Corvallis Public Library o Candace Brey; “The Courage to Teach: Reconnecting Who You Are with What You Do”. Central Oregon Association for the Education of Young Children Spring Conference o Jay Casbon keynote speech at the Education Pathways Conference and the Wittenberg Global Conference on Digital Education and session leader at the Young President’s Conference  Candace Brey served as a facilitator for the Central Oregon Courage to Lead Program, a series of retreats for educational leaders.  Debbie Coehlo has given presentations at local, state and national conferences on topics that include child care in Central Oregon, residential placement of individuals with dementia, care of medically fragile children, effects of maternal drug use on children, and goal striving in later life.  Kathleen Cowin planned and co-presented a three-day Mentor Teacher Training Workshop with Bend La Pine Schools District Staff.  Kathleen Cowin planned a state-level Mentor Teacher Grant Proposal with Bend La Pine Schools and coordinated professional development coursework with the Redmond Schools for their first Summer Institute in June 2008.  Kreg Lindberg was appointed to the Deschutes Provincial Advisory Committee by the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and is a member of Senator Wyden’s Deschutes County Ad Hoc Committee on Recreation Assets, a member of the Bend-Fort Rock Ranger District Trail Users Group, and a volunteer in the Deschutes National Forest Adopt-a-Lake program. He took the lead in creating and grooming a cross-country ski trail at Wanoga Sno-park in the Deschutes National Forest.  Librarian Maureen Kelly & OSU programmer Kim Griggs presented "Racing information to the student with Ruby on Rails" at the 25th Online NW Conference, discussing OSU Libraries' development of the Interactive Course Assignment Guides, an open source tool that supports the creation of dynamic web pages that tie course assignments to information rich resources. Presenting at Online NW is a competitive process and it draws regionally from Oregon, Washington, California, and other western states.  Sandy Brooke served as a lobbyist with the Oregon Arts Commission, advocating for the Culture, Heritage, Art, Movies and Preservation initiative at the Oregon legislature.  Counseling faculty met with internship site personnel, continuing to develop relationships in the community. As existing sites have spoken favorably about student interns, other sites have called to become internship sites.  The business program networks with local businesses and place students with those businesses, both as interns and as regular employees.

OSU Cascades Academic Report 07-08 Page 2 of 5  Deborah Coehlo has provided leadership for the HDFS program’s involvement with four regional conferences, including two related to gerontology, the Child Trauma Workshop by Bruce Perry, MD, and the annual ED/MED conference: “Partnerships between Education and Medicine”.  Librarian Kate Gronemyer and OSU colleague Anne Marie Deitering presented "Peer Review 2.0: giving today's students the tools to create tomorrow's scholarship on the emerging web", at LOEX of the West, the library user education conference, in Las Vegas. Based on strong audience response they were invited to present at the Ontario Library Association Superconference 2009 in Toronto.  OSU Cascades Campus was invited to submit an exhibition of drawings to The Regional Arts and Culture Council in Portland to be hung at the Portland International Airport for six months.  Henry Sayre presented a paper at North Carolina A&T and at Northwest College in Wyoming titled, “Value in Art: Manet and the Slave Trade”, and gave the keynote address at the Pacific Northwest Historical Association in Corvallis, titled “The Figure in the Landscape: Mythologies of Self in Pacific Northwest Art”. All were invited presentations. He also traveled through Florida, Texas, and North Carolina to promote his six volume humanities text.  Kreg Lindberg, with Norwegian colleagues, secured funding from the Norwegian Research Council for the project “SUSTOUR – Sustainable tourism development in mountain park areas” and was a guest editor, in association with a Swedish colleague, for the journal Tourism Economics.  Jim Foster continues to serve as political consultant at the ABC local station.  David Knuff served as a facilitator for a panel discussion related to entrepreneurship in Central Oregon at the President’s Weekend event in June.  Diana Sloane met with 60 community and government leaders and made presentations about higher education and OSU Cascades Campus to six organizations , as well as on KBND and KTVC and at the Bend Chamber Education Forecast breakfast

Community and diversity  Kathy Biles begins a three year term with the Oregon School Counselors Association in July 2008 when she serves as President Elect. In subsequent years she will serve as President, then as Past President. She has served as the Board of the OSCA as Research Chair for the past two years.  Natalie Dollar offered her annual Community Dialogue Workshop in March 2008 with an average community participation of 20, plus 13 students.  Jay Casbon was appointed by the Governor to the Oregon Council for the Humanities as a state-wide board member and representative.  David Knuff serves as the Marketing Director and board Member for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Oregon.  Faculty members sponsor student clubs, such as the Gay Straight Alliance, and collaborate with such community organizations as The Human Dignity Coalition.  Sandy Brooke serves on the Board of the High Desert Journal and the Central Oregon Cultural Board, Facilities and Marketing Committees for the new Visual and Performing Arts Center in the planning stages.  Candace Brey launched the OSU-Cascades Sparrow Club which is providing support for a Bend youngster diagnosed with cancer.  Candace Brey served on the Early Education Partnerships committee, bringing together representatives from Higher Education, Head Start, Early Childhood Special Education, and Bend La Pine Schools.  Kathleen Cowin met with school district staff in Sisters, Redmond, and Bend La Pine to identify their key programmatic needs  10 Faculty Associates from the community and public schools joined the Teacher Education faculty meetings this year.  Henry Sayre serves on the following commissions and boards o Commissioner, Oregon Arts Commission o President, Board of Directors, Cascade Festival of Music o Executive Committee, Central Oregon Arts and Cultural Center  Diana Sloane served on the search committee for the City Manager and serves on the Economic Development of Central Oregon (EDCO) board and on the State Board of Higher Education’s Committee on Student Participation and Completion.

International-level activities and accomplishments  Julie Elston spent four weeks in Germany and Belgium as part of her Fullbright Scholar activities researching the European Union position on the link between science and society. OSU Cascades Academic Report 07-08 Page 3 of 5  More than 40 government officials from Botswana spent a day on campus as a part of a program in which they were engaged studying organizations and leadership.  Four students from Germany spent one term on campus.  Nine students from OSU Cascades did an internship abroad, more students than any of Oregon’s regional campuses.  Neil Browne presented papers at the 9th International Connotations Symposium at Universitat Tubingen in Germany.  Julie Elston participated in the Oregon University System 2008 Faculty Partnership Conference delegation to the German state of Baden-Wurtenburg in June to improve both the faculty and student exchanges between the universities of BW and OSU.  David Knuff served as a visiting professor at University Center Cesar Ritz in Brig, Switzerland, teaching marketing at this hospitality university.

Other appropriate initiatives  The CACREP accreditation self-study and site visit were successfully completed. A 7-year accreditation was awarded.  A 12-member Advisory Board has been created and regular meetings have been held.  The Academic Advisor has visited all 17 community college in Oregon and has developed an enrollment management plan for six of them, those from which the Campus has the greatest opportunity of attracting students.  An MOU with the University of Oregon is close to being executed.  Searches for several positions were conducted. Hiring of individuals into the following positions was completed. o Administrative Assistant for TCE and HDFS o Admissions Advisor o Academic Advisor o Customer Services/Admissions Specialist o Faculty and Finance Specialist o Director of Communications and Outreach o Executive Director of the Foundation o Instructor, TOL o Instructor, Counseling  Collaboration between HDFS and the MAT Programs continues, including scheduling required HDFS courses for MAT students.  With assistance from the Advancement Office in Corvallis, the Campus’ marketing/branding/visibility efforts are off to a strong start with new signage, program brochures, a new web presence, banners, and a consistent look between OSU and UO materials.  The Director of Enrollment Management has developed the raw material for an annual report reflecting the Campus’ enrollment status.  A Bachelor of Fine Arts Program has been secured for the Cascades Campus thanks to the efforts of Sandy Brooke.  Preparation for the NCATE accreditation visit in April 2009 continues.  Five information sessions were held to recruit and advertise the MAT Program to the Central Oregon Community.  An orientation meeting and retreat were held on May 30 and June 20, to welcome Cohort 3 of the MAT program.

BRIEF ASSESSMENT OF UNIT’S EFFORTS IN AREAS IN (1): WHAT WORKED; AREAS THAT NEED IMPROVEMENT; MAJOR BARRIER  The cadre of new staff who were hired have already made a big impact on operations and support. The two full-time instructors hired will allow the TOL and Counseling programs to grow and for faculty loads to be shared. With the addition of a third instructor, the counseling program will run more smoothly. Improvements can be anticipated in areas such as clinical coordination, faculty load, student portfolio reviews and oral defenses, and CACREP required paperwork.  An additional administrative assistant has been hired to help the HDFS, Counseling and MAT programs and will have a major impact on the amount of student files, licensure and accreditation paperwork, and site placements, allowing faculty to focus on professional and scholarly research and teaching.  Thanks to the leadership that faculty provide, several student clubs are quite successful in terms of the enrichment opportunities they provide for students personally and professionally.  With the BFA program finally in place officially, we will be able to market this program more assertively.

OSU Cascades Academic Report 07-08 Page 4 of 5 Areas that need improvement; major barriers  The two graduate programs, Counseling and Teaching, are an important resource for the community and can be an important revenue source for the Campus. However, there is competition in the community from other higher education providers which compromise enrollments, particularly in the Education program. We will need to develop a market plan specifically for these programs, secure scholarship dollars and look at other avenues for attracting more students. The education program has planned to launch a Master’s Degree program for secondary education in Fall 09, but that process is not moving quickly enough.  The Education, Counseling, and HDFS programs, perhaps others, should be key providers of continuing education and/or professional development for Central Oregon. Faculty have a good idea regarding the needs of practitioners, community members and others and, in some cases, have already prepared materials. However, in an initial assessment of the OSU offices that work with these types of offerings, it looks like the process is not only complex, but that the revenue remaining for the campus after all obligations are met is limited. The Campus needs to put these programs in place not only to meet the needs of the community, but also to generate revenue. This initiative requires further assessment.  Faculty make important contributions to the community and are engaged in impressive research. We will need to do better in 08-09 to make these efforts more visible in the community.  The Campus needs additional faculty in existing programs and is also greatly in need of new programs to attract students, which will also require new faculty. A balance will be needed well into the future between hiring for and strengthening existing programs and adding new programs and new faculty. While we have excellent adjunct faculty members, it is very difficult to build a program and to achieve excellence without a core group of full-time faculty.  The budget needs to be relieved of its approximate $750,000 obligation for the COCC facility lease and related expenses so that those resources can be used for new programs and additional full-time faculty.  In the long term, we will need to offer freshman and sophomore courses in order to improve our financial viability and attract more students.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF MAJOR FACULTY AND STUDENT AWARDS  Currently there are two non-tenured track instructors as leads to the Community and School Counseling Program. The third instructor will be on board June 2008. During the accreditation for the Counseling Program, the CACREP team recognized the work and energy of the two faculty who prepared for the visit, and the quality of the program. The CACREP site team also recognized the connections to the community and school sites and the tremendous support and collaboration by the clinical part time faculty.  Jacqueline Scott, Liberal Studies student, was awarded the College of Liberal Arts Dean Scholarship, competing against Corvallis students.  Kasey Every successfully competed for the Dean’s Leadership Award in the College of Business.  Neil Browne was a Research Fellow in the Center for the Humanities, OSU during 2007-08.  Jay Casbon received a “Distinguished Commendation” for service from the E-3 Board, Oregon Business Council, January, 2008  Julie Elston was selected as a Faculty Fulbright Scholar in the 2008 German Studies Seminar on “Science and Society”.  Julie Elston was selected for the Newcomb Award for Excellence in Scholarship, College of Business, Oregon State University, in both 2007 and 2008.

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