SUNY Oneonta Institutional Planning

Darren Chase 2022-03-02T10:26:35-05:00

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2/2 Dialogue Session Notes, Governance

Dialog Session: Academic Affairs, classroom instructors

Meeting on2/2/2022 in IRC 4:

• facilitator- Keith Jones,
• notetakers: Grazyna Kamburowska, Kathy Webster, and Karyn
• 28 people in attendance

• President: welcome remarks

• college needs strategic plan. Delay by Covid.
• Strategic plan was discussed for the last 18-24 months with governance.
• Questions for discussion:

1. What are challenges of teaching institution?
2. What are opportunities of teaching institution?

• Dr. Elizabeth Dunn, Dean of School of Liberal Arts and Business:

• Main challenge is how to recover our reputation
• Maybe new programs can help

• ?

• We must believe in ourselves
• SUCO is still good place, and we are doing good job

• ?

• Decrease in enrollment is not good reflection on what’s going on

• President:

• Decrease in enrollment is not a new problem, we observed this for long time
• We need to concentrate on how to attract new students

• Dr. Theresa Russo:

• We can take under consideration historical perspective: we were in similar situation before
• Decrease in enrollment is not surprising- we were expecting this. It happen just sooner than expected because of Covid.
• We are not in panic situation!
• We worked hard to improve retention rates for long time.

• Keith Jones (facilitator)

• Can we use past experience?

• Dr. Eileen Morgan-Zayachek, Associate Provost of Academic Programs

• In the last 5 years a lot of work was done

• Dr. Elizabeth Dunn

• We know that, but drop by 1000 in number of students  is not normal
• We need to set some standards

• Keith Jones

• We have three causes for decreasing number of students: changing demographic, Covid

• President:

• We like to know how it was done in the past when this institution had increase in students

• Dr. Eileen Morgan-Zayachek

• This is appealing place but not always the strategic thinking was priority
• We can see some patterns in students leaving:

1. Students with GPA 3.0 and above are leaving
2. Students transfer to schools which offer majors which we don’t have
3. Some schools added attractive programs

• Maybe we need to find which programs are attractive now.

• ? (from Psychology?)

• We must provide better advisement
• We must market our programs better
• We must provide better advisement in the departments

• Dr. Franklin Chambers:

• Social engagement is important

• Dr. Theresa Russo:

• We have historical data
• Students liked to be here
• We really need to know what students need!
• We can do better on these fronts.

• ? (from Psychology?)

• We must care more about front line faculty and staff
• We must invest in junior faculty

• Dr. Daniel Nahson:

• Technology is important
• We must know which new technology is needed

• Dr. Tracy Allen:

• What is main reason to attract students?

• Keith Jones:

• We must support faculty so they can do better for students

• ? (from Psychology?):

• Students need our time

• President:

• We are not attracting students from out of state. Why?
• How we can make SUCO more attractive for out of state students?
• Advertise Art program for example

Meeting ended at 2:00pm

NotesStrategicPlaningFeb022022_Governance.doc

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