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Living the Land-Grant Mission in a Global Context LIVING THE LAND-GRANT MISSION IN A GLOBAL CONTEXT Institutional Self-Study: January 13, 2015 Prepared for: The Middle States Commission on Higher Education The Pennsylvania State University Page | i Table of Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................................................................................................... 1 THE PROCESS ................................................................................................................................................................ 1 THE SELF STUDY ............................................................................................................................................................. 2 CONCLUSION ................................................................................................................................................................. 5 1. INTRODUCTION AND SELF-STUDY DESIGN ..................................................................................................... 7 1.1 NATURE AND SCOPE OF THE SELF STUDY ................................................................................................................ 9 1.2 SELF-STUDY DESIGN AND THEME ....................................................................................................................... 10 1.3 INTENDED OUTCOMES ..................................................................................................................................... 11 1.4 ORGANIZATION OF THE STEERING COMMITTEE AND SUBCOMMITTEES ....................................................................... 12 1.5 COMMUNITY INPUT AND FEEDBACK .................................................................................................................... 13 2. INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT AND FOUNDATIONS ........................................................................................... 14 2.1 RESEARCH QUESTIONS ..................................................................................................................................... 14 2.2 MISSION AND GOALS ....................................................................................................................................... 15 2.3 ADMINISTRATION ............................................................................................................................................ 24 2.4 INTEGRITY ...................................................................................................................................................... 29 2.5 FACULTY ........................................................................................................................................................ 33 2.6 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS ................................................................................................................................... 38 3. PLANNING, BUDGETING, AND GOVERNANCE .............................................................................................. 42 3.1 RESEARCH QUESTIONS ..................................................................................................................................... 42 3.2 PLANNING, RESOURCE ALLOCATION, AND INSTITUTIONAL RENEWAL ......................................................................... 43 3.3 INSTITUTIONAL RESOURCES ............................................................................................................................... 45 3.4 LEADERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE ......................................................................................................................... 57 3.5 INSTITUTIONAL ASSESSMENT ............................................................................................................................. 72 3.6 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS ................................................................................................................................... 84 4. EDUCATIONAL CONTEXT AND OFFERINGS ................................................................................................... 87 4.1 RESEARCH QUESTIONS ..................................................................................................................................... 87 4.2 EDUCATIONAL OFFERINGS................................................................................................................................. 88 4.3 GENERAL EDUCATION .................................................................................................................................... 106 4.4 RELATED EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES ................................................................................................................... 114 4.5 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS ................................................................................................................................. 127 5. STUDENT EXPERIENCE ............................................................................................................................... 131 5.1 RESEARCH QUESTIONS ................................................................................................................................... 131 5.2 STUDENT ADMISSIONS AND RETENTION............................................................................................................. 132 5.3 STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES ........................................................................................................................... 143 5.4 ASSESSMENT OF STUDENT LEARNING ................................................................................................................ 159 5.5 SUMMARY OF FINDINGS ................................................................................................................................. 164 The Pennsylvania State University Page | ii 6. CONCLUSION ............................................................................................................................................. 169 APPENDIX A: ACCESSING SUPPORTING MATERIALS ON ANGEL ......................................................................... 171 APPENDIX B: SELF-STUDY STEERING COMMITTEE AND SUBCOMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP .................................... 172 APPENDIX C: PENN STATE ACRONYMS REFERENCE SHEET ................................................................................. 175 APPENDIX D: ORGANIZATIONAL CHART............................................................................................................. 177 The Pennsylvania State University Page | iii Executive Summary The Process Preparation of this institutional self-study began in the summer of 2012, when President Rodney A. Erickson and Interim Executive Vice President and Provost Robert N. Pangborn asked Blannie E. Bowen, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs, to oversee the University’s self-study process in preparation for Penn State’s 2014/15 decennial re-accreditation. Dr. Bowen was supported in the process by Michael J. Dooris, Executive Director of the Office of Planning and Institutional Assessment. A Steering Committee, comprising 18 members and chaired by Dr. Bowen, was formed and charged in the spring of 2013. The Steering Committee appointed four subcommittees, organized around four areas critical to the functioning of the University: 1) Institutional Context and Foundation, 2) Planning, Budgeting, and Governance, 3) Educational Context and Offerings, and 4) Student Experience. Each subcommittee addressed a subset of the 14 standards that the Middle States Commission for Higher Education outlines in Characteristics of Excellence in Higher Education: Requirements of Affiliation and Standards for Accreditation. Each subcommittee was chaired by a member of the Steering Committee and assisted by a staff member from the Office of Planning and Institutional Assessment. Subcommittee membership was diverse and included trustees, faculty, administrators, students, and staff from a variety of campus locations. Overall, 48 members of the Steering Committee and the subcommittees contributed to the composition of the self-study report. In April 2013, Tito Guerrero, Vice President at MSCHE, visited the University Park campus to meet with Drs. Bowen and Dooris, the Steering Committee, and University administration to discuss the self-study design. With input from Dr. Guerrero, it was agreed that in addition to University Park, a number of undergraduate campuses would be visited by the evaluation team during its visit. On June 26, 2013, the self-study design was submitted to Dr. Guerrero for review and was approved. Once approval was received, the Steering Committee began to expand the design into the self-study report. The theme of the report is Living the Land-Grant Mission in a Global Context. This theme builds from Penn State’s historic objectives toward what the land-grant mission means for the University today. This approach has provided the Penn State community with an important opportunity to reflect on its past and to guide its future. A preliminary draft of the self-study report was reviewed by the Steering Committee in early spring, 2014. After review by the Committee, the draft document was sent for further review to various constituencies—administrators, trustees, faculty, staff, and students. As a result of these reviews, further revisions were made, and a revised draft was distributed to the Steering Committee for final comments and update. The Pennsylvania State University Page | 1 The Self Study The self-study identifies
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