13 Academic Program Strategies Narrative – describes the academic program array as a factor of enrollment, faculty complement, completions, and section size. Together, these establish the foundation upon which the program array can be evaluated, as the number and mix of students reveals the number and type of programs that can be financially supported. In AY 23-24, after analysis of 5+ years of data for each program, six undergraduate programs were identified by the university to be moved into moratorium. An additional graduate program was identified by a department. For the undergraduate programs, all had regularly under 15 completions, and under 60 students for four of the prior five years at fall freeze. Most were significantly under those numbers. The graduate program that was moved into moratorium at departmental request had falling numbers over the prior five years, with nine students enrolled in the most recent two years. These programs are currently in a teach-out phase. The impacted programs were: Philosophy Spanish (and related BSED programs) German Studies (and related BSED program) Public Administration English (Grad) Faculty in an additional series of programs were asked to work together and collaborate with peers in other programs, in an attempt to create a curriculum with better efficiency and one that should be more appealing to students. That work is in process. The programs are: Anthropology Art History Geology Geography Marine Science Additional attention is being paid to four graduate programs, as well. Those are: Arts Administration Communication Design Music Education Public Administration In the same year, several concentrations were placed into moratorium and other concentrations and certificates – particularly those that may lead to better employability or are directed toward non-traditional students – were added. After approval of LOIs an MA in Communication Design and a BS in Data Science (LOI approved as Informatics) are in process of being revised for final approval. In the coming year, we expect to make additional curricular changes to re-envision some of our programs, as noted above, replace programs with poor enrollments with others that may be more interesting to students of today. This will likely include creation of programs in areas of Global and Regional Studies (which may potentially be paired with moratorium for Anthropology as a stand-alone program), and Geo & Marine Sciences (which may potentially be paired with moratorium for Geography, Geology, and Marine Science as stand-alone programs). Additionally, we will continue to move forward into the adult learning and just-in-time career training through campus-based certificates and platforms such as Coursera.
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