Learning Resources

Abstract: Community engagement can be key to an institution's success, but often it is not strategically driven, aligned with other planning efforts, or appropriately supported and measured. We will discuss how to align community engagement with systems, policies, processes, and practices in an institution. Come learn how to align community engagement efforts with institutional goals (diversity and inclusion, grants and partnerships, student success, and more), how to make sure community engagement is adequately supported, and how to measure the outcomes of your efforts.

Abstract: Our institutions serve diverse stakeholders, yet our structures, processes, and environments often lack a welcoming, user-friendly focus. This harms our ability to educate students, engage talent, and meet community needs. This session will show how one institution is changing its culture to be a more welcoming campus by utilizing strategies focused on integrated planning, stakeholder engagement, and dynamic implementation. You will learn how effective leadership, intentional stakeholder engagement, and specific strategies can lead your institution to be a more welcoming and inclusive place to learn, work, and serve their communities.

Abstract: A program cost study was conducted at a large midwestern university to determine department level expenses and revenues associated with the mission-critical activites of instruction, research, and service. The analysis is patterned after a controversial study conducted at the University of Rhode Island (Swonger and Mead, 1996: Cordes, 1996, Roush, 1996) but includes significant improvements based in the availability of well-developed models for allocating costs (Responsibility-Centered Management, or RCM) and attributing faculty effort to these mission-critical activites (Instructional Effort Report/Capacity Model). Rcm has been used for nearly a decade to allocate all campus revenue and expenses to academic units. The IER/Capacity Model has developed over the course of the ten years from a system for illustrating faculty teaching loeads to one concerned with total faculty workloads. The results of the cost study ere promulgated through a series of reports and meetings with university administrators. The reports provide to them a wealth of cost information to supplement exisiting evaluation mechaisms assesing program process and quality and were incorporataed into the annual planning and budget proceses across all campus units.