The academic review focuses on optimizing classroom utilization/scheduling, improving time to graduation and student retention, and enhancing e-learning offerings.
Initiatives are being developed to address the following key recommendations:
- Identify and evaluate current academic support services
- Set goals to improve retention and graduation rates
- Look for ways to better coordinate campus institutional research function
- Explore additional opportunities to collaborate with University of Northern Iowa and Iowa State University on online degree programs and courses
- Consider developing new online degree programs based on market research, offering online versions of high-demand general education and core courses, and expanding summer online course offerings
- Better coordinate the scheduling of department classroom space
- Review “off-grid scheduling” (scheduling of classroom space outside of standard class start times)
- Create a committee to monitor enrollment needs, better align scheduled classroom space with pedagogy, and review off-grid scheduling of classroom space
Committees have been established to review the reports from Pappas Consulting and Ad Astra in detail, and to make recommendations regarding self-implementation. An outline was drafted in January 2016, and a self-implementation plan developed by June 2016.
Download Academic Process and Implementation Plan
Academic Cases Update to Board of Regents, June 2016
Download slideshow summary of Pappas and Ad Astra Reports
TIER Academic Review Background Information
Academics Success Stories
TIER leaders to share best practices with Big Ten peers
TIER leaders from the University of Iowa and the Iowa Board of Regents will visit with their Big Ten colleagues this week to lead a discussion about best practices in operational efficiency. The Efficiency Conference, organized through the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), will share innovative approaches, identify best practices to streamline processes, and identify opportunities to increase operational efficiency and drive cost savings.Academics News
Pappas Report Update: E-Learning (Online and Distance Education Task Force)
March 2, 2016
The University of Iowa has charged a committee of 17 faculty and staff to review and implement the relevant recommendations from the Pappas E-Learning Report. This committee – the Online Education and Distance Education Task Force – has formed six working groups.
Ad Astra Report Review Committee Update
February 25, 2016
The Ad Astra Report Review Committee has been working on developing a process to implement the following recommendations:
Academics Update - November 20, 2015
November 20, 2015
Charges for the three committees involved with reviewing the recommendations of the Pappas Consulting Group (enrollment management and e-learning/distance education) and of Ad Astra (classroom utilization/scheduling) have been drafted.
The chairs for the three committees—Sarah Hansen and...