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Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Faculty Senate Academic Support Committee Report

Teaching and Learning with Technology Collaborative – Annual conference

Registration is currently open for the 2006 TLTC annual conference. The Conference will again be held at the North Raleigh Hilton. Dates are March 15-17. The deadline for proposals was October 17. A total of 5 proposals were submitted from UNCP. Proposal review and selection has been completed. This year, as in years past, the Distance Education unit under Dr. Charles Tita has sponsored a limited number of attendees. As of this morning, UNCP has 31 registrants, one behind ECU and 40 behind NCSU.

Blackboard Usage (As of Feb. 8, 2006)

	Fall 2003	Spring 2004	Fall 2004	Spring 2005	Fall 2005	Spring 2006
Total Blackboard Courses	223	276	320	382	443	434
Total Online Courses	54	67	81	78	98	96
Ave Page Views Per Day	~34,500	~35,000	~75,000	56,035	34,737	45,033
Total Instructors (unduplicated)	152	173	197	159	200	182
Total Students (unduplicated)	n/a	n/a	3,710	4,017	4,631	4,535
UNCP Total Enrollment	4,722	4,669	5,027	5,132	5,632	5,336
UNCP Total Courses	1,100	1,124	1,185	819	561	581
UNCP Total Sections	1,631	1,762	1,621	1,319	1,130	1,078

 

Online Course Management Policy

The UNCP Faculty Senate approved the policy which governs access authority and other logistical issues. The policy now goes to the Chancellor for approval.

Budget Hearings

Provost Charles Harrington has instituted a new budget building process for additions to operating budgets in Academic Affairs. A part of the process includes public hearings so that interested members of the University community can be apprised of priority requests of Academic Affairs units and has an opportunity to question the presenters. The first day of hearings was yesterday, in UC 213. The remaining hearings will be held on Thursday and Friday of this week.

Ruckus

UNCP is considering entering into an agreement with Ruckus, Inc., which would give our students a free music download service. Additional services such as movie downloads, download to portable players, etc. would be for a fee. Following a survey of the student body, the SGA is expected to vote on the service offering at its regular meeting this week.

Business Continuity Plans

We are in our annual campaign to update BCPs for all University business units. Currency of BCPs must be certified annually by the Chancellor and Vice Chancellors.

Staff & Organizational Items

Doug McLaughlin has resigned to accept a position in Colorado. Doug was the primary support person for Human Resources and Cognos ReportNet and will be sorely missed.

All IT staff at UNCP are in the midst of being moved to a new personnel classification system called career banding. Eventually, all SPA employees in the state will be moved to career bands. This process for UNCP IT employees must be completed and certified by the Office of State Personnel before any new or vacant existing positions can be filled – including Doug’s position.

The actual Blackboard section count is 89. However, some instructors combine several course sections into a single Blackboard section.

The ‘average page views’ is difficult to interpret. Daily page views tend to be quite high early in the term and then fall off as the term moves along. We haven’t standardized the time in the term that we take this snapshot. We will begin to take it shortly after the census date.

We are now learning how to frame our request for information from Institutional Research. Earlier data included cross-listings and such.

 

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