2006 AQIP Initiative Summary

College of Arts & Sciences

ART

• Add online course(s) in interior design to current roster of Virtual College courses. In addition, develop a certificate program, after concept discussions with interior design faculty, in interior design.
• Recruiting and relationship proposal

CHEMISTRY

• Increase efficiency in CHEM 120L and CHEM 122L
• Combine advanced laboratory course proposal development

COMMUNICATION STUDIES

• Faculty will develop greater knowledge of how to use technology in teaching. This will include a study of how to use mobile computing in our classes.
• Begin to develop an “electronic writing” program.

ENGLISH

• The English department recognizes its MA program to be a strength and wishes to build on that strength by reviewing and improving the program—especially with an
  eye on increasing the number of traditional MA students.
• The English department will increase the number of faculty involved in service-learning, and the number of students benefiting from such experiences in their English courses.

GENERAL STUDIES

• Affinity diagrams
• Assessment Plan

GEOSCIENCES

• The department will focus on AQIP criterion 1, Helping Students Learn. Student exit surveys suggest the need to review our curriculum and course content.
• The department will focus on AQIP criterion 1, Helping Students Learn. The AQIP focus will be 1C3, (integrating technology within the formal instructional context).

HISTORY

• Recruit, train, and retain high quality faculty in the department in preparation for further transition, i.e. future retirements.
• Continue to develop relevant, appropriate content assessment mechanisms.

INFORMATION NETWORKING AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

• Improve the quality of on-line networking and telecommunications courses using NetLab, adding additional media rich content and creating Voice of Internet Protocol (VoIP) remote lab exercises.
• The INT faculty have examined the survey of student engagement and have agreed to identify additional opportunities to use recognized student engagement tools.
• The INT faculty have recognized “convergence” as a founding characteristic of the INT Department.

INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES

• Complete the updating of IDS 803 lectures. Continue discussion of modification of IDS 801.
• Complete digitalization of material for IDS 802. Dr. Crawford is revising the book he wrote for IDS 804.

MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

• Improve university wide advising regarding the use of ACT’s for College Algebra.
• Develop more on-line courses in computer science and more courses whose content deals with computer forensics.

MODERN LANGUAGES

• Develop Spanish III for VC.
• Collaborate with the History Department to develop a spring break study abroad trip to Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic.
• Offer face to face and prepare an online version of MLNG 112: Great Works in Translation: Modern German and Austrian Writers.
• Gain approval of restructuring of basic language course sequence to go to two five-hour classes instead of a three-course sequence.
• Student tutors for beginning language courses in all programs
• Finalize new program and department brochures.
• Formation of departmental scholarship committee to formalize a procedure to award scholarships to outstanding majors.
• Revitalize the Spanish club.

MUSIC (GENERAL)

• Develop architectural program statement for expansion of Malloy Hall.
• Develop courses through the Virtual College to support state licensure needs.

PHILOSOPHY

• Require more substantial writing assignments of our students in upper-division major courses.
• Remake the Virtual College version of MLS core course IDS 801 (Continuation of an FY05 Initiative).
• Create Virtual College version of general education and major course PHIL 340 (Continuation of an FY05 Initiative).

PHYSICS

• Mobile computing
• Student response system

POLITICAL SCIENCE

• Develop mobile computing use in teaching Political Science classes.
• Restore Public Administration faculty position to tenure track status.

PSYCHOLOGY

• Devise a plan for student recruitment (continuing goal from AY 05).
• Devise a system of assessing student learning outcomes continuing goal from AY 05).
• Create a document detailing criteria for tenure.

SOCIOLOGY

• Redesign electronic brochure which is sent to all prospective students to include both personal letter and basic information on how to do online classes.

SOCIAL WORK

• Recruit more Hispanic students to Social Work Program, develop field practicum sites in agencies serving a significant Hispanic client population and develop close
  working relationships with key members of Hispanic community.
• Develop a brochure which emphasizes the “three semesters On campus” feature of the Social Work program and distribute it to Kansas community colleges.

College of Business and Leadership

ACCOUNTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS

• Change the Computer and Information Systems major to a Management Information Systems major.
• Complete the new 150-undergraduate accounting major program and incorporate forensic accounting and QuickBooks into the program.

ECONOMICS AND FINANCE

• Develop a survey for ECFI Alumni.
• Develop Virtual MBA courses.
• Focus on research efforts of faculty.

LEADERSHIP STUDIES

• Recruit on-campus students for the Leadership Certificate Program and Minor.
• Implement new undergraduate curriculum.

MANAGEMENT AND MARKETING

• Return the faculty to full staffing with the appointment of a permanent Chair and the replacement of faculty in the areas of Production and Strategy.
• Repeat the excellent year we had in the area of Scholarship. Publish four articles in refereed journals, and have 100% of the department participate in presenting or
  publishing in refereed proceedings.

College of Education and Technology

EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION AND COUNSELING

• Complete self-study report for submission to CACREP for Counseling accreditation, host team. Community Counseling and School Counseling programs will become accredited.
• Utilize the Curriculum Mapper software as a focus for the review of educational administration curriculum.

SPECIAL EDUCATION

• Development of Early Childhood Unified Program
• Development of ESOL option for SPED degree

TEACHER EDUCATION

• The Teacher Education Department will participate in a pilot program to develop best practices for the use of laptop computers in delivering curriculum/instruction to
  teacher education candidates in the Elementary Education program during the 2005-2006 AY.
• The Teacher Education Department will engage in a number of initiatives to expand the delivery of the Elementary Education program to more outreach students
  through the Virtual College.

TECHNOLOGY STUDIES

• To increase the number of Majors in the program
• To develop one new degree program and completely redo an existing program

College of Health & Life Sciences

AGRICULTURE

• Program advertisement and student recruiting
• Instructional facilities and resource upgrades

ALLIED HEALTH

• Obtain continued accreditation status of the Associate Degree Radiography Program sponsored by FHSU through the Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology.
• Review and modify radiologic technology imaging curriculum to align with the American Registry of Radiologic Technologist's recent changes in content outline
  for the national registry.

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE

• Development of ideas for the Cadaver lab
• Development of instruments for soils research
• Development of Grassland Plant Ecologist position
• Development of proposal for participation in the Bioscience Initiative

COMMUNICATION DISORDERS

• To return the faculty to full staffing with the appointment an Assistant Professor and Assistant/Associate Professor with areas of expertise in the areas of fluency, articulation/phonological disorders, counseling in communication disorders, language development and disorders, and/or adult neurological disorders
• Continued work and revision of the T-MAKS, including class and clinical tracking systems, continued emphasis on formative assessments within the academic and clinical setting of student learning outcomes, and development of an electronic/Web-based system

HEALTH AND HUMAN PERFORMANCE

• Development and publication of Graduate Project Guidelines and Theses Development Guidelines for use by students and faculty within the department
• Revision of the teacher education option within HHP. This will include a revision of the HHP core for teacher education and the course requirements in the area of concentration.

NURSING

• Service Learning
• PDA implementation
• Course updates with articulate or tegrity software.
• Implement new MSN program
• Enrollment management
• Resources needed to deliver high quality education in the
  DON will be evaluated.
• Retiring faculty-impact of retiring faculty over the next 5 years. Identify faculty wishing to pursue PhD-explore funding options.