Faculty Development and Resources
Focus: How do we ensure that ODU make optimum use of its faculty resources?
Faculty Expertise - Pillars of Excellence
Instructional Delivery: Face to face and technology
Pedagogy: Types of Instruction and Structure of the Faculty, Types, Functions, and joint appointments
Faculty Development: Helping faculty to best use existing and new technologies in instruction and research
Pedagogy: Understanding our students
Committee Members
| CHAIR Elaine Justice | Science - Psychology |
| M'hammed Abdous | Center for Learning Technologies |
| Janet Brunelle | Science - Computer Science |
| Leigh Butler | Education - Teacher Education Services |
| David Chase | Military Program |
| Stephen Daniel | Institutional Advancement Public Relations |
| Wes Lewis | Engineering - Engineering Technology |
| Joyce Neff | Arts & Letters - English |
| Chris Osgood | Science - Biology/ Associate Dean |
| Linda Pond | Education - Curr. & Inst. |
| Carolyn Rutledge | Health Sciences - Nursing |
| Cynthia Swaine | Library Public Services |
| Wayne Talley |
BPA - Economics |
| TASK FORCE REP Marty Sharpe | Institutional Research & Assessment |
Principal Themes and Overall Considerations
- Bolstering Old Dominion University's position as a Major Metropolitan University in the Southeast United States
- Developing and Expanding Strategic Partnerships with wide range of educational, governmental, corporate institutions
Enriching a Student-Centered Culture on Campus
- Identification of institutional strengths and challenges pertinent to Committee ScopeIdentification of external opportunities and threats pertinent to the Committee Scope
- Areas of Distinctiveness in Academic Programs and Research; Pillars of Excellence; Expertise
- Areas.Ideal size and composition of student body and faculty
- Perspectives of stakeholders, beneficiaries and constituencies
- University's regional, national, and international position
- Leveraging geographic advantage
- Balancing Quality and Access
- Instructional Delivery: face-to-face vs. technology-delivered/on- vs. off-campus/role of regional centers
- Service to military and veterans
- Consideration of substantial resource limitations during the planning window; presumption of reallocation of resources
- Keep recommendations at a strategic level, all the while considering relevant operational and tactical issues.
- Propose directions which have reasonable potential for sustainability
- Planning documents and recommendations arising from the Strategic Enrollment Management Process
- Draft Plans of the Academic Colleges
- SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Threats, Opportunities) Analysis Conducted for the Board of Visitors
- Faculty Senate General Education Recommendations
- Council of Graduate Schools Analysis of Graduate Studies and Programs
- Distance Learning Analysis of Niche and Organization
- Enrollment, Degree, and Resource Trends by Department and Program
- Higher Education Restructuring Act and Institutional Performance Measures
- Other information as requested
