[POST-CEIT-facultycouncil] FW:

[Michele Dornisch]

Colleagues,

Please see the email below from the Faculty Council chairperson to VPAA Kane regarding the process of Academic Program Review.  I was not at the meeting on Wednesday, but the FC chair, Nancy Frye, was.  In response, and especially given the request from several departments related to learning information relative to the awarding of new lines (or the NOT awarding of new lines, as the case may be).

You will see Nancy's email to Jeff below.  Additionally, you will see Jeff's response.

Michele

From: Jeff Kane
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 6:33 PM
To: Nancy Frye
Cc: Michele Dornisch; John Lutz; Kathleen Gill; Lori Knapp
Subject: RE:

Sure.  At the next faculty council meeting.  I will share the information for Post.

Some in the faculty seem to think this process is a pretext for something the administration will do.  In truth, no pretext would be necessary for the administration to allocate resources as deemed best for the University.  The professional schools have conducted self-studies for years using pretty much the same reflective assessment as we would ask in our review.  If we were interested in using the information to take action, we could have done so long ago.

The irony here is that the School of Education, where some took exception to academic program review, already conducts all the academic program review we would expect of the faculty.  Recall that I have said repeatedly that those units that already review themselves for accreditation need not duplicate their effort for our own process.




Jeffrey Kane, Ph.D.
Vice President for Academic Affairs
Long Island University
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Brookville, NY  11548
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From: Nancy Frye
Sent: Friday, November 20, 2015 5:30 PM
To: Jeff Kane
Cc: Michele Dornisch; John Lutz; Kathleen Gill
Subject:

Jeff,
In discussions with faculty regarding APR, a relatively consistent concern has been raised. People seem to be concerned that the process will lead to departments doing work to provide the administration with contextual information on their departments, but that the transparency won't go the other way, in terms of information about how decisions are ultimately made.

One thing that might help to alleviate this concern (or skepticism) is an overture of transparency on the part of the administration. One issue that has been raised recently by faculty is that of new lines. People generally understand that all the requests for new lines cannot be honored, but it might be helpful if information about the requests could be shared. For instance, would it be possible to share with the faculty the number of new lines that were requested across the university and the number of new lines that were granted, as well as the general sorts of criteria that were used in making these decisions? I believe this information was shared at a dean's meeting, but the information does not always get passed on to the faculty.

Nancy

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Nancy Frye, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Psychology
LIU Post
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