Campus Updates
King Hall has gone offline until Fall 2024 for renovations with a focus on infrastructure and code improvements, such as HVAC and mechanical as well as ADA and fire system improvements. Most faculty and staff from King Hall have been relocated to R modulars (near Dobo Hall) until renovation is complete. After completion, programmatic changes to the second floor will result in reallocated space to accommodate the Honors College & C-SURF. The Film Studies department will return to the first floor, which will also see improvements and new finishes to public spaces. The Advancement Call Center is being relocated to a shared space in Hoggard Hall.
RELOCATIONS:
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UNIT |
OLD |
NEW |
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Advancement Call Center |
King Hall 212 |
Hoggard Hall (Rm. 125) |
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Film Studies |
King Hall 1st floor |
R23 Modular (Rooms 2302-2346) |
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Pre-Engineering Program |
King Hall (Suite 205) |
R22 Modular (2215, 2215A, 2217) |
Randall Library Expansion continues to take shape to provide approximately 80,000 square feet of additional space. This project will provide additional student study and collaboration space, seminar rooms, enhanced digital makerspace and faculty commons, and grand reading room and event space. This summer some group study rooms will be offline at different times due to window replacement. Randall Library Auditorium (2047) and one of the Instruction Classroom (1039) will be closed for the summer.
Please reach out to Dr. Andy Mauk, Associate Provost of Institutional Research & Planning if you have questions.
Space Planning and Management provides support, analysis, and accurate space inventory information, aiding campus officials and administrators in making informed business and educational decisions related to space allocation and utilization. Space Planning and Management continues to expand its capability to develop and distribute information about space usage on campus. The space needs of the university can be better served by increasing the awareness of space issues on campus and continuing to bring faculty and staff into the space allocation, utilization, and/or reassignment process. Your role in providing updated and accurate information on a regular basis is critical to ensure the reports and consultation Space Planning and Management provided to campus leadership is greatly appreciated. If you have any questions about space related data, please reach out to space@uncw.edu.
It is important to remind all employees of the Space Allocation Policy for UNCW. As units plan for future space needs, please consult with Space Planning and Management to ensure your request aligns within the campus space planning process. We are happy to walk with you through this process and even assist you with completing any Space Requests.
Please reach out to Dr. Andy Mauk, Associate Provost of Institutional Research & Planning if you have questions.
As a reminder, UNCW is partnering with a national program, the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE), to participate in an important survey focused on faculty job satisfaction. Please check your inbox for a link to the survey – we need your feedback! Your views are especially important as we strive to increase the satisfaction of all faculty and to continue to make UNCW an even greater place to work.
To support and encourage your participation, the Office of the Provost and the Faculty Senate Welfare Committee will be offering a lunch break for the college with the highest participation rate. Your support by completing the survey will allow us to ensure that your voices are heard.
The COACHE survey launched the first week in February for faculty who have worked at UNCW for more than 1 year and will close on April 5, 2024.
Click here for more information on COACHE at UNCW.
National Survey of Student Engagement: We need your help to recruit students!
As faculty and staff at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, we are always seeking ways to improve the student experience. To assist us with our efforts, we need to hear from our students. The Office of Institutional Research and Planning is administering the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) to ALL first-year students and Seniors from March 11 to May 13, and we need your help to encourage participation.
What is NSSE?
NSSE is a trusted instrument used across the nation for assessing the quality of undergraduate education and student engagement. When students complete a survey, this information provides diagnostic and actionable information that will foster and catalyze evidence-based improvement efforts. The results of this survey will help us gain an in-depth look at the student experience to better facilitate unique learning opportunities, gain insight on opportunities and threats to student retention and completion, understand how engagement has changed and how students have adapted since the previous administration, and so much more!
How can you help?
We are asking faculty and staff who engage with first-year and seniors students to encourage them to check their e-mails for the NSSE survey link and to complete the survey. Please let them know that we carefully review and consider all feedback received through this survey.
You can also help us advertise our incentives! Students who complete the survey by Friday, April 26th will be automatically entered in a random drawing to win:
In addition, fifty of the first first-year and Seniors who complete the survey will receive $5 in UNCW Seahawks Bucks. The chances of winning depend on how many students complete the survey; the last time we administered the survey about 22% or 1,548 students responded.
We hope to improve upon our 2022 overall response rates and hear from more students about their student experience. Our goal is 30%. Your help in getting students to provide feedback through this survey today will empower the students of tomorrow.
This spring, UNCW has is partnering with a national program, the Collaborative on Academic Careers in Higher Education (COACHE), to participate in an important survey focused on faculty job satisfaction. Please check your inbox for a link to the survey – we need your feedback! Your views are especially important as we strive to increase the satisfaction of all faculty and to make UNCW a great place to work. To support and encourage your participation, the Office of the Provost and the Faculty Senate Welfare Committee will be offering a lunch break for the college with the highest participation rate. Your support by completing the survey will allow us to ensure that your voices are heard.
The COACHE survey will launch the first week in February for faculty who have worked at UNCW for more than 1 year. It will close on April 10, 2024. (Note: All new faculty hired within the last year will also receive a separate survey administered through the Institutional Research and Planning office.)
COACHE, which has been operating from the Harvard Graduate school of Education since 2003, provides campuses with valuable insights on the faculty experience, identifies drivers of faculty success and retention, and provides a comparison of peer groups and national data benchmarks. Gaining your feedback is key as we continue to focus on implementation of the new strategic plan, attracting and retaining the best and brightest faculty and scholars, increasing the work satisfaction of all faculty, and making UNCW a great place to work!
We welcome this opportunity to learn from an independent, research-driven, comparative study. We believe that UNCW can be one of the best places for scholars to work, and with your help we can learn how best to support that goal. However, data from the COACHE study will be meaningful only if we have broad participation. Don't forget – the college with the highest participation rate will receive a lunch break.
Your participation and feedback is important to ensuring that campus leaders have a sense of the overall campus climate. Several important surveys are coming this spring to either your or your students’ email collecting perceptions and input to promote institutional effectiveness and improve the campus environment.
Please make time in your busy spring schedule to provide us your thoughts. If you have questions or concerns about the surveys, please contact us at ie@uncw.edu.
As we near the end of the Spring semester, many faculty and staff are completing Administrative Unit and Educational Program AY 2022-2023 Assessment Reports in UNCW’s Taskstream Accountability Management System (AMS) with many activities occurring before or during the upcoming fall term. The timeline of assessment activities, presented below, varies depending on the type of assessment reports faculty and staff are submitting. As you close out the end of the year, it is important to ensure that you and your units are completing the various assessment, reporting, and planning activities.
Administrative Units
Assessment Activity by Month
July (Last business day – July 31, 2023)
Administrative Units Assessment Reports Completed for the Previous Year (AY 2022-23)
August
Administrative Unit Assessment Planning
September (Last Business Day – September 29, 2023)
Administrative Unit Assessment Plans Developed for the Current Year (AY 2023-24)
Educational Programs
August
Program Assessment Planning
October (1st Business Day – October 2, 2023)
Academic Programs’ Outcomes (PO) and Student Learning Outcomes (SLO)
Assessment Reports Completed for the Previous Year (AY 2022-23)
PO & SLO Assessment Plans Developed for the Current Year (AY 2023-24)
Notes for faculty and staff who have a role in assessment planning or reporting.
Critical Friends Assessment Academy for Academic Program Coordinators is being offered again this June with a new track for administrative units.
If your role requires you to manage your program or unit’s assessment process, please consider joining the Critical Friends Assessment Academy (CFAA) being hosted by the Office of Institutional Research and Planning June 20 and 21. Critical Friends Assessment Academy is a professional learning community that provides a common knowledge base for engaging in assessment and continuous improvement of assessment practices with the goal of contributing to strengthening and improving programs and student learning. All skill levels are welcome and encouraged to attend.
If you attend, we ask you to serve as a resource during the annual assessment process in your college or unit. The CFAA emphasizes the importance of assessment work while providing a respectful atmosphere where collaboration across academic programs and administrative units and constructive feedback is encouraged. Participants will have the opportunity to apply strategies and knowledge gained while working on their program or unit assessment reports.
The Academy will be led by Jaci Webb-Dempsey, Director of Program Assessment, Accreditation, and Development for the CSB, CHHS, and WCE; Diana Ashe, Director for Center for Faculty Leadership; and Kimberly Miller, Director of Institutional Effectiveness. As part of a one-day administrative unit training track, staff participants will receive assessment training and lunch on June 20. Staff participants must first gain approval to attend training from their reporting supervisor. As part of a two-day educational program assessment training track, faculty participants will receive an $800 stipend ($400 per day) and lunch will be provided each day on June 20 and 21. The number of participants is limited to 20 spaces for administrative units and 25 spaces for academic program faculty. Spaces are filled on a “first come, first reserved” basis.
If you are interested in participating in the two-day educational program track, please email Jaci Webb-Dempsey at dempseyj@uncw.edu or if you are interested in the one-day administrative unit track, please email Kimberly Miller at millerka@uncw.edu by Friday, May 26.
This academy fills up fast, so please do not hesitate to register!
If you are a faculty member, you may have spent too much time pulling all your information together for annual reports, RTP applications, and other reporting requests. We have heard from you.
The Institutional Effectiveness Office (IE) has been working with faculty representatives to make changes to the Watermark Faculty Success (WFS) platform to reduce the burden of faculty reporting. We found ways to connect technologies the university is already using to WFS to save you time, and we optimized our use of the WFS platform to make sure it will work for you. We look forward to saving you many hours in the years ahead!
In this article, we are excited to share how WFS can lighten your workload and offer new possibilities – both right now, and in the future.
The VITA report is ready and available for your use in WFS! This feature can produce a report on all of your teaching, research, scholarship, and service that you have entered into WFS*, formatted into a curriculum vita (c.v.). Downloading the report into Microsoft Word allows you to edit the content as desired.
For annual reporting, the VITA report can be used to submit your information, or it can be pulled directly by department chairs. By using this WFS feature, you can keep your c.v. updated while you complete your annual reports, too – zero additional effort.
*Note: In order for this report to work properly, it requires you to upload your information on a regular basis. Need help or have questions? Email us at ie@uncw.edu
In Fall 2022, the Center for Faculty Leadership’s Leadership UNCW faculty work group met to align the current RTP application with how information is collected through the WFS platform. The goal? To enable faculty members to generate their RTP applications within WFS. This work is ongoing with many stakeholder steps – check out the latest progress below.
The Leadership UNCW faculty working group and the IE team worked throughout the fall semester to align WFS with the RTP application, identifying many proposed changes. In January, the group began sharing its work with multiple stakeholder groups of faculty and staff from across the university to gather feedback and ensure that all disciplines would be able to use WFS to report their accomplishments. The proposed changes, with adjustments from the gathered feedback, were approved by the WFS Advisory Board. Next, the Faculty Leadership Work Team will bring the proposed changes to the Faculty Senate for review.
The IE team is working with Information Technology Services (ITS) and data stewards to upload IDEA Course Evaluation scores used for RTP into WFS platform. These scores will be incorporated into the WFS RTP application (mentioned in the section above) to make your efforts in compiling this information cease to exist. No more need to create your own tables of IDEA scores! Our goal is to gain the required leadership approvals on an automated process this spring. If achieved, we can make changes within the platform and test over the summer months.
Stay tuned . . . This new feature could be available in your WFS account’s reporting menu as early as August 2023.
Have you visited Scholars@UNCW yet? Check out how it provides a digital search engine for our campus community to find and make connections with others who share the same research and scholarship interests. It’s also available to the general public, making it easy for anyone to find subject matter experts located right here at UNCW.
Take a moment to browse the system’s search feature to see who shares similar research interests about any topic. Questions? Email Associate Provost Lucy Holman, at holmanl@uncw.edu.
Randall Library, the manager of Scholars@UNCW, is exploring ways to showcase faculty scholarship.
The IE team has reviewed all WFS reports and updated access requirements. This means your menu should be shorter, streamlined to provide relevant reports for your area.
Research and development: The IE team is exploring how to align WFS with OSPREY. More to come on this!
Annual reporting: the possibilities here are endless! Stay tuned for future updates as the IE team digs into more enhanced reporting ease with WFS.
Learn more about the enhanced WFS platform on the Watermark Faculty Success Resource SharePoint Site, or email us at ie@uncw.edu.
Please also join us in thanking the following faculty and staff who have been instrumental in providing their expertise and input to assist in streamlining core faculty reporting processes – and, overall, making our faculty reporting easier and more efficient for you!