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PROGRESS

Recruiting the best faculty

Goal: Continue to attract and retain top teacher-scholars.

Progress:

  • Forty new faculty members will join Sacramento State in 2008-09 from major universities throughout the country and overseas.
  • To enhance recruitment efforts, the Office of Human Resources has revised the content and scope of recruitment training and online guides.
  • We have begun developing cooperative recruitment partnerships, including, for example, our membership in the Northern California Higher Education Hiring Consortium which offers wider exposure in recruiting for all campus positions.


Goal: Increase opportunities for faculty members to develop professionally.

Progress:

  • We remain committed to funding professional conference presentations and competitive summer research projects at both the University and College levels.
  • The Office of University Advancement has secured a number of new endowments and testamentary commitments focused on faculty development. In 2007, the Annual Fund transferred $150,000 to the Provost for faculty support.
  • We are pursuing work distribution configurations that will free larger blocks of time for faculty scholarly and creative activity.
  • We have reorganized the structure of services pertaining to external funding (private giving and grants and contracts) to facilitate opportunities for such support.


Goal: Increase opportunities for student-faculty interaction.

Progress:

  • In line with its Strategic Plan, Sacramento State is focused upon improved student retention rates through increased interaction among students, instructors, and academic and other advisors.
  • The First-Year Programs Committee, with members from Academic Affairs and Student Affairs, focuses on integrated ways to help first-year students succeed.
  • In 2006, Sacramento State's General Education Honors Program welcomed its first cohort of 58 new freshmen. Active learning and interaction with faculty members are key elements of the program. The Honors Program will work with Housing and Residential Life in developing a residential component to the program.
  • The expanding Freshman Programs courses now involve 50 percent of new freshmen in courses with no more than 25 students and designed to facilitate student-faculty interaction. In one new Learning Community, students live together and faculty teach the component courses in the residence hall.