[POST-CEIT-facultycouncil] HC&PA Move to SHPN

[Michele Dornisch]

Dear CEIT faculty,

As one of your representatives to the faculty council, I am forwarding you the email below which I wrote to the Faculty Council membership, but for which a larger canvassing of faculty for response is necessary.

We have received a request for faculty council input from the department of Health Care and Public Administration, which desires to move from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences to the School of Health Professions and Nursing.

If you have any questions or concerns, please email me by JUNE 3 so I collect them for a final report/response. Also, please feel free to let me know if you're supportive of the idea.

In case I do not hear any objections, I will assume that nobody has any, and will indicate so to the faculty council.

Have a wonderful summer!

Best,

Michele...

ORIGINAL EMAIL...

From: Michele Dornisch
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2016 3:24 PM
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Subject: HC&PA move to SHPN... Please respond by June 3 (Faculty Council canvass of opinion)
Importance: High

Good afternoon folks,

The officers of the Faculty Council have been approached by Stacy Gropak regarding a potential move of the Health Care and Public Administration Department (HC&PA) from the College of Arts and Sciences (CLAS) to the School of Health Professions and Nursing (SHPN).

The purpose of this email is to get feedback from the Faculty Council membership.

It is important to understand that the desire for this move - as well as the initiative - comes from the HC&PA itself.  They have unanimously voted to recommend the move.  In addition, they have spoken with Stacy Gropak, who has had online votes as well as in person meetings - and the SHPN has also approved the recommendation for this move.  Further, the HC&PA department chair has met with Nick Ramer, who undersands the desire to move and has no objectives.  Additionally, they have met with Jeff Kane, who directed them to speak with the Faculty Council as per the CBA (Collective Bargaining Agreement).

There are multiple reasons for this move, including that as an accredited program, they have many more requirements in common with the accredited programs in the SHPN, there are multiple integrated program they have in mind for developing with various SHPN departments, a joint BS/MS that they will be offering with St. John's would be better marketed and promoted if it were linked to the SHPN (the connections are much stronger), and finally, they believe that they - as well as their field - is moving more in a direction that focuses on the health care aspect of their program.  While the public administration aspect (which is the primary way in which the department was connected to the liberal arts) remains important, it is the health care focus that will help them grow their programs and develop new programs.

Please respond - as soon as possible but hopefully by June 3, answering two questions:


1.       Do you foresee your constituencies having any possible objectives/concerns/issues?

2.       Do you have any objections/concerns/issues yourself - or do you support this reorganization with no concerns?

Please respond either way, as I really would like to know what people think so that we can try to help this move forward as soon as possible.  Please note: we are not currently voting on anything - we are just canvassing for overall responses/opinions.

Michele






Michele M. Dornisch, Ph.D.
Professor
LIU Post, CEIT
"My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that." - Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland


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