Academic Affairs Newsletter - Message #2

Faculty at IUPUI do amazing things – in classrooms, in laboratories, in the field, and in the studio. They transform lives through education and they design and create breathtaking works of art as well as solutions to some of the most complex problems of our age. Yet we often struggle to elicit more than a handful of nominations for campus awards! Many departments – when benchmarked against peer institutions – have faculty that outperform their counterparts in terms of publications and grants received. Yet those same departments have significantly fewer faculty that have received disciplinary or other prestigious external awards. Perhaps this is just a Hoosier (or adopted Hoosier) tendency towards humble self-deprecation. But it’s just got to stop!

The Office of Academic Affairs is committed to trying to work more aggressively to help ensure that we are regularly submitting a steady stream of faculty nominees for a variety of awards that will help IUPUI faculty to be recognized for the outstanding work that they do. We have shifted our deadlines for internal awards to the fall semester in order to help ensure that faculty recipients of campus awards are routinely advanced as candidates for university and external awards. We are happy to collaborate with department chairs and deans on soliciting recommendations and developing dossiers for award candidates.

When a faculty member receives an award, it’s a terrific achievement for the faculty member, and there may well be a financial reward that helps to further enhance one’s research or teaching. But awards have a parallel benefit to the faculty member’s department and school, as well as our campus. Prestigious awards help to attract and recruit students (and other faculty) – and ultimately enhance the reputation of our campus. So go ahead and nominate a colleague today. It’s definitely worth your time and effort.

Sincerely,

Kathy E. Johnson, Ph.D.
Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Academic Officer
Professor of Psychology
ude[dot]iupui[at]cve
academicaffairs.iupui.edu

Chancellor’s Academic Honors Convocation
Callout for Nominations

The Chancellor's Academic Honors Convocation recognizes outstanding achievements of IUPUI faculty, staff, and students across all areas of IUPUI’s mission: teaching and learning; research, scholarship, and creative activity; civic and community engagement; and diversity, collaboration, and best practices.

Deadline for nominations: November 4, 2016, at 5 p.m. 

• Chancellor’s Professor Award - $5,000 permanent base increase
• Bantz-Petronio Translating Research Into Practice Faculty Award - $1,000 one-time cash award for an IUPUI TRIP Scholar
• Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching - $3,000 permanent base increase for a full-time faculty member; $2,000 one-time cash award for a part-time faculty member
• Chancellor’s Faculty Award for Excellence in Civic Engagement - $3,000 permanent base increase for a full-time faculty member
• Chancellor’s Community Award for Excellence in Civic Engagement
• Chancellor’s Diversity Scholar - $3,000 one-time cash award for a full-time tenured or tenure track faculty member
• Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Multicultural Teaching - $3,000 one-time cash award for either a full-time or part-time faculty member
• Alvin S. Bynum Award for Excellence in Mentoring - $1,000 one-time cash award for one full- or part-time faculty member and one professional staff member
• Glenn W. Irwin, Jr., M.D., Research Scholar Award - $5,000 permanent base increase

Additional details, including guidelines, lists of previous recipients, and links for online nomination are available on the Academic Affairs website.  We encourage you to take time to review the award guidelines, consider the excellent work of your faculty, and provide an opportunity for the campus community to appreciate the excellence of your faculty through campus awards.

The awards will be presented at the Chancellor’s Academic Honors Convocation, on Friday, April 21, 2017, from 3 to 5 p.m. in the Hine Hall Auditorium.

Darla Deardorff is Keynote Speaker for the Plater Institute – October 31, 2016

William M. Plater Institute on the Future of Learning 
Global Learning: Educating for a Global Community  
Monday, October 31, 2016  
9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Campus Center 450

Darla K. Deardorff, executive director of the Association of International Education Administrators, will be the keynote speaker for the 2016 William M. Plater Institute on the Future of Learning on October 31. She will speak on the institute’s theme, “Global Learning: Education for a Global Community.” Dr. Deardorff is executive director of the Association of International Education Administrators (AIEA), based at Duke University. With nearly 20 years of experience in the field of intercultural education, she teaches courses in international education and intercultural communication. In addition, she is a research scholar in the Program in Education at Duke University and has held national leadership positions with NAFSA and with Forum on Education Abroad. Editor of the Sage Handbook of Intercultural Competence (Sage, 2009), she has published widely on international education and cross-cultural issues. She is also lead editor of the Sage Handbook of International Higher Education, (Sage, 2012) along with co-editors Hans de Wit, John Heyl, and Tony Adams. Other recent books include Building Cultural Competence (Stylus, 2012) and Demystifying Outcome Assessment for International Educators (Stylus 2015).

Along with the keynote address, the institute will feature sessions on international vision statements, technology and global learning, and course-level internationalization. During the lunch hour, tabletop conversations will center around a variety of topics related to global learning: service learning, study abroad, intercultural engagement, interprofessional practice, and cross-school partnerships, to name a few.

We look forward to vibrant discussions surrounding global learning, a timely and relevant educational matter for all disciplines, and hope you can attend.

Registration is required.

The IUPUI Data Link provides interactive and visual information on various data items related to the IUPUI Strategic Plan.

These highly-interactive dashboards allow users to drill down and filter to allow detailed exploration of key indicators associated with the strategic plan. These reports represent the following areas of the IUPUI Strategic Plan: Optimizing Enrollment Management, Student Success and Learning (Academic Excellence), Faculty and Staff, Online Education, Graduate Education, and Inclusive Campus Climate. We plan to expand to more areas in fall 2016. We invite your comments and welcome suggestions on how we can continue to improve the data reporting tools.

Please contact nesnaH [dot]J elehciM or call (317) 278-2618 for more details.

Julie Landaw, Director
Passport Office: IUPUI and Ivy Tech Coordinated Programs
ude[dot]iupui[at]wadnaluj

In 1990, Ivy Tech Community College Central Indiana (ITCI) and IUPUI partnered to form the Passport office. As the name implies, Passport facilitates travel--for Ivy Tech students to IUPUI and much more. Passport’s mission is to ensure general coordination between the two institutions in regard to the transfer of credits, student services, needs assessment, and marketing. The Passport office is located in Hine Hall, but Passport academic advisors are also housed at the ITCI campuses. Passport academic advisors provide pretransfer advising to help students to identify a major at IUPUI and assist in their academic planning to meet their academic, personal, and career goals. Passport also administers the Ivy Tech guest student application process which allows IUPUI students to take course(s) at Ivy Tech as guest students with the option to receive financial aid via the Passport financial aid consortium agreement.

Passport services are vital to the success of IUPUI and ITCI transfer students. For AY 2014-2015, ITCI students made up 19 percent of IUPUI’s overall undergraduate population. And, 29.3 percent of all IUPUI bachelor's degrees were awarded to previous ITCI students. The ITCI ethnic diversity contribution to IUPUI’s overall undergraduate population is 23 percent. The average transfer GPA for previous ITCI students was 3.14.

Although Passport serves the Central Indiana region, Ivy Tech Community College is a unified statewide system which serves more than 170,000 students per year. Ivy Tech is the largest postsecondary institution in Indiana and the largest singly-accredited statewide community college system in the entire country. Ivy Tech’s tuition is approximately one-third the cost of most state institutions.

Passport has made great strides this past year. Part of Passport’s services includes transitional programming in which IUPUI tailored campus visits and academic advising days connect specific student populations from Ivy Tech to programs at IUPUI, easing the transition of students between institutions. Passport was honored by Ivy Tech’s TRIO program as their “Friend of the Year.” In addition, Passport has increased the number of articulation agreements between Ivy Tech and IUPUI. Articulation agreements allow students to complete an associate degree at Ivy Tech and enter IUPUI at junior standing to complete their remaining coursework for bachelor’s degrees at IUPUI. State legislators and faculty from around the state have collaborated to create Transfer Single Articulation Pathway (TSAP) degrees. Currently, there are 13 approved TSAP degrees and more are in progress for 2017. 

Collaboration with students, staff, faculty, and administrators at both IUPUI and Ivy Tech is paramount in the Passport office’s ability to provide services that support transfer student preparation, planning, transition, and overall success. Many IUPUI faculty connect with Ivy Tech faculty regarding curricula in their respective disciplines and partnership opportunities.

Recently, the School of Informatics and Computing and Ivy Tech received a $4M NSF grant to train disadvantaged students for IT jobs. If your department seeks to connect more with Ivy Tech faculty and to increase opportunities to tap the Ivy Tech pipeline of students, please eciffo tropssaP eht tcatnoc. 

Gail Williamson
Director of Faculty Engagement
Office of Academic Affairs 
ude[dot]ui[at]mailliwg

The IUPUI Mentoring Academy held its fall symposium, the fifth event hosted by the Mentoring Academy Planning Committee since its conception in April 2014. The symposium included a mentoring workshop, “Rethinking Mentoring: How to Build Communities of Inclusion, Support & Accountability,” by Dr. Mindi Thompson, from the National Center for Faculty Development & Diversity, and a poster session which included 12 proposals funded by the Mentoring Academy. Schools including Dentistry, Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Herron, IUPUC, Law, Liberal Arts, Physical Education and Tourism Management, University Library, and Social Work presented posters on their mentoring programs and provided outcomes of their efforts to date. The School of Informatics and Computing, developers of the Mentoring Exchange, shared a report describing how the exchange is being used to match mentors to mentees on campus. The mentoring programs focused on a variety of faculty ranging from pretenure faculty, underrepresented minority faculty, women faculty, tenured associate professors, clinical faculty, and department chairs. The Mentoring Academy has disbursed $95,000 to date to support the funded proposals. Mentoring proposals approved for funding require a direct monetary match from the respective school up to $10,000. Click here to see the posters displayed at the symposium.

The goal of the Mentoring Academy is to foster a culture of mentoring at IUPUI through the development of school-level mentoring programs. To that end, the next round for proposal submission and potential funding is February 13, 2017. The Mentoring Academy Planning Committee will meet with interested school representatives to discuss revisions of previously submitted proposals or the development of a new mentoring proposal. Please contact committee chair, nosmailliW liaG, if your school would like to schedule a meeting to discuss proposal revision or development of a new proposal. Resources, the RFP, and the funded proposals can be accessed on our web page. Several schools have expressed interest and plan to submit proposals in the next funding round. Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Academic Officer Kathy Johnson continues to support this effort and encourages all schools to develop a mentoring program through the Mentoring Academy. Please take advantage of this opportunity to submit a proposal to support and mentor faculty within your school.

Margaret Ferguson
Interim Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
ude[dot]iupui[at]osugrefm

Sabbatical Leaves are afforded to faculty and librarians per University Policy ACA-47. A sabbatical is used to provide time for scholarly research and to allow faculty time to keep up to date with developments in their fields of service to the university.

A sabbatical leave is not automatically earned after a given time period. The timing and purpose of the sabbatical must be discussed with and approved by the faculty member’s department and dean. A faculty member/librarian is eligible for one sabbatical leave during each seven-year period of full-time service in faculty rank. A leave cannot be granted during a probationary period of a tenure-eligible appointment. The leave can be divided over several years.

The number of sabbatical leaves taken since 2010 saw a sharp decline between 2011 and 2014 followed by an increase. The chart provided shows the annual percentage of faculty taking sabbaticals each year. The School of Liberal Arts leads with the number of sabbaticals taken (53) followed by the School of Science (35).

The Office of Academic Affairs encourages eligible faculty to consider applying for a sabbatical leave:

• Check with your department or school for application deadlines and appropriate timing.
• Read the process statement that specifies how the policy is applied at IUPUI.
• Download and complete a Sabbatical Leave Application Portfolio. Instruction can be found here.
• Contact your dean’s office to declare your interest in applying.

The application process for a sabbatical leave for the 2017-18 academic year is closing soon. Think about applying for a sabbatical for the next round and begin preparation now. Don’t let this valuable opportunity pass you by! For more information about the sabbatical leave process, click here. All questions regarding sabbatical leaves should be directed to eloC ytsirhC in the Office of Faculty Appointments and Advancement.

Friday, October 28, 2016
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
University Hall 5022

What’s on your mind? Meet with EVC/CAO Kathy Johnson during open office hours. IUPUI faculty can drop in with no appointment to share your thoughts, ideas, and concerns. See our website for details.

IUPUI is seeking a Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (SAVCAA). The mission of the Office of Academic Affairs is to create and support an environment that advances IUPUI’s institutional mission of achieving international distinction in education, scholarship, and public service. The office provides leadership for continuous improvement in academic programs, faculty development, and ultimately, student success. The SAVCAA is a member of the Council of Deans and works closely with IUPUI’s Faculty Council, academic policy groups, and other campus constituencies in advancing the mission and meeting the strategic goals of the campus articulated in IUPUI 2025: A Commitment to Indiana and Beyond. The SAVCAA also works with faculty to develop and refine proposals for new academic programs, including collaborative online degree programs supported by the IU Office of Online Education.

The SAVCAA provides leadership and vision for the direction of faculty affairs and faculty life at IUPUI and provides significant leadership in shaping programs and events that develop faculty talent and leadership at all stages of career advancement, including promotion and tenure programs and processes, awards and funding opportunities, new faculty orientation, chair development, support for recruitment and retention of faculty of color, and faculty mentoring and leadership development programs. Offices and functions currently reporting to the SAVCAA include the Center for Teaching and Learning, Office for Women, Director of the ePortfolio, Assistant Dean of the Faculties for Faculty Appointments and Advancement, and Director of Faculty Enhancement.

The Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs (SAVCAA) reports to the Executive Vice Chancellor and Chief Academic Officer (EVC/CAO). The SAVCAA will represent the Office of Academic Affairs to the IUPUI campus in the absence of the EVC/CAO. The SAVCAA assumes primary responsibility for directing the following:

1. Faculty Policy and Process Administration
2. Faculty Awards, Events and Programs
3. Management and Supervision
4. Support for the Development of Academic Program Proposals and Collaborative Online Degrees
5. Liaison to Committees and Councils
6. Institutional Planning and Strategic Initiatives

In addition to the above areas of responsibility, the Senior Associate Vice Chancellor responds to needs and initiatives as they arise, while also initiating programs or activities that will enhance faculty affairs and faculty life on the IUPUI campus.

Qualifications and application details can be found on: https://indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/2746

Indiana University is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culturally diverse intellectual community and strongly encourages applications from women and underrepresented minorities.

November 1, 2016
4 p.m. ~ Campus Center Theater

• Academic Affairs Events Listing – Use this link to view and register for upcoming Academic Affairs workshops, training, and important events that pertain to YOU!
• Faculty Academy on Excellence in Teaching (FACET) is accepting nominations!
• Teaching in Stereo: Perspectives in Learner-Centered Instruction – October 25, 2016
  
• IUPUI Faculty Council Meeting: November 1, 2016, 3 p.m., CE Theater. You do not have to be a member to attend!
  
• Critical Conversations: Book Discussion on "The Other West Moore: One Name, Two Fates" - November 2, 2016, Noon - 1 p.m., UL 1126
• RISE Day - Pre-Conference Workshops - November 3, 2016; one-day conference - November 4, 2016 - RISE Day showcases the work of students, faculty, and staff who teach courses with an emphasis on high-impact teaching practices, as well as work with community partners.
• 2017 E.C. Moore Symposium Call for Proposals – Deadline: November 6, 2016
• Veterans Day Activities Calendar – November 10-11, 2016
• Your Ultimate IUPUI Experience: November 30, 2016, 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., CE Lower Level. To allow students to explore the many opportunities that are available to them at IUPUI for extra and co-curricular experiences, such as undergraduate research, study abroad, service learning, internships, and the scholarship and financial support available to help them include these experiences in their Student Achievement Record to create their own, unique, ultimate IUPUI experience. For more information, call 274-5917.
• Curriculum Enhancement Grant Request for Proposals – Deadline: January 27, 2017 - The Curriculum Enhancement Grant (CEG) provides faculty with technical and instructional support, time, and funds to implement projects designed to improve student learning and successes at IUPUI and IUPU Columbus.  In addition, the grants seek to enhance the conversation about scholarly teaching on campus and increase the practice of the scholarship of teaching and learning. 

• Spring textbook orders were due October 15. See this guide on how to use Faculty Enlight for textbook adoption or contact sazebaC anA (Textbook Department Manager) for assistance. Section 133 of the Higher Education Opportunity Act requires institutions of higher education receiving federal financial aid to post textbook information (including pricing) at the time students register for classes. Faculty are asked to report even when no textbook will be required (i.e., zero cost).