2008 Woodie Awards
Details emerge about program prioritization
Ashley Mackin
Issue date: 4/23/08 Section: The Future of Humboldt State
With the implementation of the provost's Program Prioritization Task Force, Humboldt's academic programs will be scored and ranked. Some programs will end up with more money; others will face elimination.
The Program Prioritization Task Force is hard at work, even in its earliest stages, creating a rubric to rank academic programs at Humboldt State in preparation for Program Prioritization. This rubric has not been finalized yet, but it will offer a standard by which an academic program will be scored and categorized. Currently, the task force is outlining exact questions they will ask department chairs to help determine their score against this rubric.
Task force members held meetings to offer students and community members a chance review of the rough draft of the rubric and criteria. Much of the feedback from students and community members was in the form of questions and concerns about the current stage of this process and will be used in the next draft of the criteria and rubric.
The purpose of the task force is to categorize the academic programs. Dale Oliver, chair of the mathematics department, sits on the task force. He said administrators had to ask themselves about the university's priorities. "We have to ask ourselves what are our priorities are, when there are revenues, where do they get invested, what do we cut to keep the university as it is and follows our mission?"
It was to answer these questions and rank the academic programs that the task force was created. The provost's office started this process and compiled the task force with representatives from different departments on campus.
The representatives are: theater, film, and dance Chair Bernadette Cheyne, sociology professor Betsy Watson, fisheries biology Chair Dave Hankin, mathematics and computer science Chair Dale Oliver, kinesiology Chair Sue MacConnie, economics Chair Erick Eschker, AS representative Carrie Schaden, Interim Dean of Graduate Studies Chris Hopper, and Gina Pierce from the School of Business.
The Program Prioritization Task Force is hard at work, even in its earliest stages, creating a rubric to rank academic programs at Humboldt State in preparation for Program Prioritization. This rubric has not been finalized yet, but it will offer a standard by which an academic program will be scored and categorized. Currently, the task force is outlining exact questions they will ask department chairs to help determine their score against this rubric.
Task force members held meetings to offer students and community members a chance review of the rough draft of the rubric and criteria. Much of the feedback from students and community members was in the form of questions and concerns about the current stage of this process and will be used in the next draft of the criteria and rubric.
The purpose of the task force is to categorize the academic programs. Dale Oliver, chair of the mathematics department, sits on the task force. He said administrators had to ask themselves about the university's priorities. "We have to ask ourselves what are our priorities are, when there are revenues, where do they get invested, what do we cut to keep the university as it is and follows our mission?"
It was to answer these questions and rank the academic programs that the task force was created. The provost's office started this process and compiled the task force with representatives from different departments on campus.
The representatives are: theater, film, and dance Chair Bernadette Cheyne, sociology professor Betsy Watson, fisheries biology Chair Dave Hankin, mathematics and computer science Chair Dale Oliver, kinesiology Chair Sue MacConnie, economics Chair Erick Eschker, AS representative Carrie Schaden, Interim Dean of Graduate Studies Chris Hopper, and Gina Pierce from the School of Business.
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