Academic Design:
Sharing Lessons Learned

by Bill Warner and Bill Ammentorp

Academic Design describes the design process used in the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities to evaluate academic programs and priorities based on the unique needs of individual institutions. The four main sections include landscape analysis; program analysis; program design and improvement; and learning paradigms. The conclusion offers information on how to prepare your academic design plan.

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©SCUP 2003
ISBN 0-9700413-5-7

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Table of Contents

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Preface
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Introduction to Academic Design
    Design Perspective
    Academic Design Process
    Academic Design Team
    Organizing for Academic Design
    Design Documents
    Design Schedule
    Stakeholder Review of the Academic Design
    Steps for the Academic Design Process
    Section 1 Glossary

Landscape Analysis
    Environmental Scan
    Institutional Scan
    Vitality
    Comparative Advantage and Productivity
    Design Criteria
    Key Institutional Indicators
    Educational Landscape
    Section 2 Summary
    Section 2 Glossary

Program Analysis
    Program Analysis
    Program Measures
    Program Profiles
    Data Mining
    Strategic Decisions
    Section 3 Summary
    Section 3 Glossary

Program Design and Improvement
    Learning Models
    Delivery Systems
    Quality Improvement
    Best Practices/Benchmarking the Design
    Section 4 Summary
    Section 4 Glossary

Learning Organization Design: Learning Paradigms
    Paradigms and Organization
    Paradigms and Teaching and Learning
    Technology
    Human Capital-Personnel
    Student Services
    Campus Environment
    Conclusion
    Section 5 Glossary

Preparing the Academic Design Plan
    Introduction-Section Summaries
    Student Support Services
    The Plan
    Resource Allocation and Academic Design
    Web of Plans
    The Principles
    The Conversation Continues
    Section 6 Glossary
    References

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About the Authors

Bill Ammentorp—Professor of Educational Administration and director of the Leadership academy for two-year Colleges at the University of Minnesota—Ammentorp's area of interest is organization design and he has worked as a co-director for a national project for the design of the two-year college in collaboration with Professor George Copa of Oregon State University. Ammentrop has served as a consultant to many public and private educational and human services organizations where he has emphasized strategic planning and organization design.

Bill Warner—president of The Warner Bill Warner Group
Warner is well known as an educator, college president, planner, and a consultant. Warner has been a teacher and a school administrator, working at the secondary and collegiate levels. He has dean and president of the metropolitan technical college known for its innovative instructional delivery. Warner has provided consulting services to educational institutions including K-12 through higher education in the areas of strategic planning, master academic planning, policy review, development, program review, leadership development, civil rights compliance, Tech Prep, competency based education, and organization development.

Warner currently serves as Executive Director of the Postsecondary International Network (PIN); an association of two-year colleges from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Australia, and New Zealand.