The State of College of Health and Human Services2009

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The State of College of Health and Human
Services2009

• delivering academic, research, and service
  excellence in our communities

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Happy Birthday CHHS 3 Years Old!
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Our Strategic Goals 2009 - 2014
Create vigorous program of research Address
global workforce demands in health and human
services Increase number of formal local,
regional, national, or global community
partnerships Increase revenue through academic
outreach and new faculty practice opportunities
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Our Research Productivity..

• FY08
• 51 proposals 9,154,592
• 17 awards 1,739,933
• FY09
• 57 proposals 18,779,918
• 23 awards 1,386,985

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Areas of research strength as indicated by
research publications and external funding
include

• Health Economics
• Health Care Financing
• Health Care Reform
• Aging and Long Term Care
• Chronic Disease Management
• Disability and Rehabilitation Sciences

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The CHHS Picture - Our Students

• Fall 2009 1125 (40 graduate FTEs)
• Fall 2008 997
• Fall 2007 834
• Fall 2006 738 (30.5 graduate FTEs)
• ------------------------------------Transition to
  CHHS
• Fall 2005 601
• Fall 2004 609 (26 graduate FTEs)

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New programs in CHHS to meet current and
emerging career opportunities in HHS

• ? Public Health, MPH (implement Fall 09)
• ? Doctorate in Nursing Practice (pending)
• ? PhD in Rehabilitation Science (pending)
• ? Medical and Health Policy, MS (pending
• with School of Public Policy)
• For finishing touches in 2010
• PhD in Health Services Research and Policy

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New activities and innovations

• Distance Education and Academic Outreach
• every academic unit in the college has an
  outreach and/or distance education commitment
  Fall 09
• Connect with our stakeholders and create
  essential pipelines to our graduate programs
  where students live and work
• Faculty Practice after our pilot year in 09,
  ready to formally implement faculty practice
  opportunities in CHHS..
• Attract clinical faculty who are among the most
  skilled clinicians in their fields at practicing
  and developing evidence-based practice and best
  practices

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Performance Indicators to Guide Us

• 100 of faculty members on research workloads
  will publish annually in high quality,
  respectable peer reviewed journals
• Tenure track faculty members will have programs
  of research of sufficient maturity and quality to
  submit proposals for extramural funding by the
  tenure decision year
• All tenured faculty members on research
  appointments will have programs of research that
  address important topics and provide opportunity
  for regular submission of competitive grants and
  contracts

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• Performance Indicators Continued
• 4. Each year, at least one faculty member in
  CHHS will receive a prestigious national award
  for his or her research or be recognized for his
  or her body of work through lifetime achievement
  awards or other notable award processes.
• 5. CHHS will experience annual increases in
  graduation rates of 15 through 2013 followed by
  an increase of 25 by 2015.
• 6. All new academic programs will be awarded
  accreditation, certification, or external stamps
  of approval on the first application.

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• Performance Indicators Continued
• 7. Every academic unit will have an advisory
  committee that
• meets regularly by 2011.
• 8. The College Advisory Board will expand from
  15 members in
• 2009 to 25 members by 2014.
• 9. Each year college investigators will submit
  proposals to at
• least two funding agencies, organizations,
  or foundations that
• have not been approached for CHHS funding
  in the past.
• 10. The number of sites at which CHHS faculty
  engage in faculty
• practice will increase from two in 2009 to
  twelve by 2014.

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CHHS Budget 2004-2010
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CHHS Building One Step at a Time and Year to
Year

• - Distance education has forever changed our
• thinking about class size and teaching
  strategies.
• - Cathy Tompkins taught 50 students
• online this year!
• - Ivory towers are in foreclosure workloads
  must
• make sense, be equitable, and include annual
• performance expectations.

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CHHS Building One Step at a Time and Year to
Year

• Professional programs in higher education must
  have faculty members with research, clinical, or
  clinical research expertise of the highest
  caliber everyone must be able to teach well.

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CHHS Building One Step at a Time and Year to
Year

• Our long-term success will require a
  college-wide team effort by all faculty and staff
  in order to
• - stay focused on our strategic goals
• - maintain a self-disciplined environment
• - remain nimble (quick and clever in thinking,
  
• understanding, or responding)

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CHHS Building One Step at a Time and Year to
Year

• Successful organizations support each other by
• Open communication all around
• Participation in discussions/decision making
• Willingness to take on assignments, complete
  them on time, and of the highest quality
• Making timely and decisive decisions