Engagement Track Preconference Plenary: Welcome and Overview

Presenters:
Al Hassan I. Musah, Provost, University of the Virgin Islands

Solomon Kabuka, Interim Executive Director of Global and Graduate Programs, University of the Virgin Islands

George L. Mehaffy, Vice President for Academic Leadership and Change, AASCU

Engagement Track Preconference Plenary: Reporting and Planning

Presenters:
Al Hassan I. Musah, Provost, University of the Virgin Islands

Solomon Kabuka, Interim Executive Director of Global and Graduate Programs, University of the Virgin Islands

George L. Mehaffy, Vice President for Academic Leadership and Change, AASCU

Optional Pre-conference Workshop for New Provosts
This session provides an opportunity for dialog with experienced provosts and with provosts who are "new" to the position. Advice on how to achieve success in the position is shared, along with suggestions on what to avoid. This session is interactive and includes a panel of "new" provosts who will share their initial experiences, what they wish they had known before assuming the position, and what they would do differently if they had to do it all over again.

Facilitators:
Lendley C. Black, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Kennesaw State University (Ga.)

Kay Clayton, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Texas Woman's University

Opening Session: Caribbean Universities in the 21st Century—Visions and Connections

Presenter: Sir Hilary Beckles, Pro-Vice Chancellor and Principal, Professor of Economic and Social History, University of West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados

Provosts of Color Breakfast Meeting—Building Partnerships

Facilitators:
Sir Hilary Beckles, Pro-Vice Chancellor and Principal, Professor of Economic and Social History, University of West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados

Vilas A. Prabhu, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Millersville University of Pennsylvania

Internationalization Track
Plenary on Internationalization: Educating Global Citizens in Colleges and Universities—Challenges and Opportunities

Introducer: Gil Latz, Vice Provost for International Affairs, Portland State University, Oregon

Presenter: Peter N. Stearns, Provost and Professor of History, George Mason University

Rapporteur: Roy W. Koch, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Portland State University, Oregon

Engagement Track: Report, Design and Develop

Facilitators:
Al Hassan I. Musah, Provost, University of the Virgin Islands

Solomon Kabuka, Interim Executive Director of Global and Graduate Programs, University of the Virgin Islands

George L. Mehaffy, Vice President for Academic Leadership and Change, AASCU

Internationalization Track Panel: A Total Campus Process
Two international models designed on public university campuses; a case study of an international institute at an HBCU.

Presenters:
Liz Grobsmith, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Northern Arizona University

Solomon Kabuka, Interim Director of Global and Graduate, University of the Virgin Islands

Ashleigh Rolle and Annette Thomas, Students, Texas Woman’s University, and Participants of the 2009 Summer Institute for Future Global Leaders in the Caribbean

Richard R. Rush, President, California State University Channel Islands

Global Reach, Local Focus: Exploring the Engagement/Internationalization Nexus at Portland State

In this session, participants learn how Portland State's continued institutional commitment to community/civic engagement has naturally led to increasing global/local connections. Discuss transferable strategies that have helped the institution leverage its focus on engaged courses and engaged research in increasingly global settings. In this interactive session, participants devise and discuss potential strategies for extending and overlapping their campus' engagement and internationalization agendas to expand student learning and faculty research.

Presenters: Kevin Keckes, Associate Vice Provost for Engagement; Roy W. Koch, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs; Gil Latz, Vice Provost for International Affairs, Portland State University, Oregon

Consultations with Jean Bannon

Consultant:
Jean Bannon, former senior associate and university counsel, University of New Mexico

Consultations with Ray Cotton

Consultant:
Ray Cotton, Vice President for Higher Education, ML Strategies, LLC, Washington, D.C.

Internationalization Track and Engagement Track
Plenary: Lessons from the Bologna Process and Implications for US Higher Education

Presenters:
Dewayne Matthews, Vice President for Policy and Strategy and Holiday Hart McKiernan, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Lumina Foundation, Indiana

Internationalization Panel: 1+2+1 Student Dual Degree
Program The successful model of a partnership between two national associations and select universities in creating a sustainable dual degree program model.

Moderator:
Sufei Li, 1+2+1 Program National Coordinator and AASCU Liaison Officer, China Center for International Education Exchange

Presenters:
Sara Brackin, Director of International Programs, University of North Carolina Pembroke

Harvey Charles, Vice Provost for International Affairs and Director CIE, Northern Arizona University

Zong Wa, Director, China Center for International Education Exchange

Jenny Zorn, Associate Provost for Academic Affairs, California State University San Bernardino

Internationalization Track
Roundtable Discussions and Reporting on Best Practices

Presenter:
Joan Elias Gore, Director of Travel Programs for the School of Continuing and Professional Studies, University of Virginia, and Author, 100 Ways to Internationalize Your Campus

Breakfast Meeting for Women Provosts

Facilitators:
Elise Jorgens, former provost, College of Charleston (S.C.)

Presenter:
Madeleine Wing Adler, former president, West Chester University of Pennsylvania

Private Consultations

Consultant:
Raymond D. Cotton, Vice President for Higher Educations, ML Strategies, LLC (Washington, D.C.)

Concurrent Sessions

Not Seeking the Presidency – A Consideration of Alternatives

Presenters:
James P. Chapman, Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Kentucky State University

David E. Payne, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Sam Houston State University, Texas

Gary G. Peer, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Tarleton State University, Texas

HR Issues for Provosts—the Human Dimension of University Administration

Presenter:
Jean Bannon, former senior associate and university counsel, University of New Mexico

A Data Driven Approach to Budget Reductions: One University’s Experience
In this challenging economic climate, university administrators are increasingly being called on to make difficult budget reductions. This presentation offers a case study of the second phase of an ongoing, three-phase budget reduction process at a medium-sized state university in Texas. The approach is focused on an intensive analysis of the university course schedule. Speakers strategically used technology tools to access data and information which enabled them to make good decisions. Presenters address the budget reduction process and ‘lessons learned’ from the perspective of a chief academic officer, academic dean, director of academic financial services, director of information technology services, a department chair, and an outside consultant.

Presenters:
Kay Clayton, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs; Glenn Dowling, Consultant, formerly Associate Vice Chancellor in the Texas A&M University System (Retired); Pat Holden-Huchton, Dean of the College of Nursing; Mary Ann McDuff, Director of Academic Financial Services; Rob Placido, Associate Vice President of Information Technology Services; James Williams, Professor and Chair of Sociology, Texas Woman's University

Concurrent Sessions

Research at the Comprehensive University in a Competitive Environment

Many refer to comprehensive universities as “emerging” when it comes to research. But precisely where are they emerging from or evolving towards? In fact, AASCU member institutions cover a wide range of Carnegie classifications from those that focus on teaching and undergraduate education to those that are heavily engaged in graduate education and funded research activity. What they share in common is a commitment to preparing research-competent students for careers in a globally competitive economy. Thus, regardless of where they fall on the Carnegie classification spectrum, all AASCU institutions must engage with the question of how to embrace a research agenda while remaining faithful to their historical commitment to student learning. How institutions resolve this issue will have significant structural, academic, and financial ramifications. This session focuses on how and why individual institutions are responding to this issue and the consequences they are experiencing or anticipating as a result of those decisions.

Moderator:
Richard Dunfee, Director, Grants Resource Center, AASCU

Presenters:
Anne E. Huot, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, The College at Brockport State University of New York

T. Joan Robinson, Provost and Vice President Academic Affairs, Morgan State University, MD

Belinda McCarthy, Provost, Missouri State University

Mark Workman, Provost, University of North Florida

Lunch and Plenary: Imagining the University of the 21st Century
Colleges and universities are being challenged as never before to provide more college graduates even as public funding is in short supply. Parents and students are growing increasingly unhappy with constant tuition hikes, and twenty percent of students are now studying online, many at for-profit universities. Is the institutional model of higher education that has dominated the last 150 years sustainable, or is higher education headed for radical change?

Introducer:
Gary R. Brockway, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, Murray State University (KY)

Presenter:
Kevin Carey, Policy Director, Education Sector, Washington, DC

Private Consultations

Consultant:
Jean Bannon, Former Senior Associate and University Counsel, University of New Mexico

Concurrent Sessions

Internationalizing the University from Ground Zero: Baby Steps to Small Leaps

This presentation focuses on one university’s journey to internationalize its campus. The presentation covers the good, the bad, and the ugly, as academic affairs personnel attempt to attract more international students, develop more interest on the part of our native-born population to study overseas, and prepare to increase international activities on campus. Successes and failures will be discussed.

Presenters:
Brenda Mitchell, Associate Provost; Takeo Suzuki, Executive Director of International Relations; Ray Wallace, Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor, University of Arkansas - Fort Smith

Concurrent Sessions

Using Budget Reductions to Re-define Priorities: Putting your Money Where Your Values Are

The presenters share current progress towards organizational change and reflect on this complex process that integrated university-wide strategic planning, program level planning, budgeting, reporting, assessment, program review and institutional values, in the context of budget reductions. An example of how one prioritized unit was established as a result of implementing this process is shared with participants.

Presenters:
Joe G. Delap, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs; Alicia Simmons, Director of Institutional Research and Assessment; Rebecca O. Turner, Vice President for Academic and Student Affairs, Jacksonville State University, Alabama