Feedback on Academic Affairs Draft Strategic Plan

After reading the first draft of these reccomendations, I feel that the ideas being proposed are well suited to help us down the road not only to acheive student suceess but to make our community better as a whole.

Reading some of these reccomendations kind of makes me think why these wern't implemented when I was a undergraduate student. Some of these examples would include community outreach, and undergraduate thesis just to name a few. I feel that these options would have made my education at Kent State more well rounded in which would help me expand my full potential.

Overall I am happy to be apart of the Kent State family not only as a staff member but as a proud alumni as well and I hope that these reccomendations will not only benefit current students, faculty and staff members today, but for those who will join our community years from now.

Posted Mar 15, 2013

I am happy to say that my unit is already actively involved in most of what I read in the report.

There were some things that stood out to me however. In terms of implementing effective 21st century methods of making faculty more available to students - aren't most of us already doing that through email, ell phones, texting, skype, wikis etc? I am concerned that the line between a student's life and a professor's personal life will become further blurred. Students seem to already have the expectations that we are available to them 24/7. Is concideration being taken to allow faculty "protected time" from having to interact with students?

Also, in terms of the reseach plan - where will "seed" money come from and who or what mechanisms will be put in place to determine which scholarly activities are worthy? I would hope that a nonbiased approach would be put in place so as to ensure that the research coming out of KSU is reputable and significant to our society as a whole.

Posted Mar 18, 2013