University Extension
University Extension Response to Planning Template
General Goal:
Over the next four years University Extension will become fully integrated into the life of the UCI campus, making significant contributions to the campus across a broad spectrum of activities, while maintaining financial health.
Specific Goals:
- University Extension will expand and deepen its offering of continuing education programs to corporations and the general public.
- Increase Orange County CE enrollments from 26,000 in 2005/2006 to 32,000 in 2011/2012.
- Encourage Extension students to see themselves as part of and supporters of the UCI campus.
- Extension programs will be linked more closely with campus programs through articulation agreements, faculty advisors and programs of supplemental impact.
- Reach new national and internationals audiences through our instructional technology.
- University Extension will become and be seen by the UCI campus as a major provider of community service programs, and as a major element in the better coordination of community-focused program on campus.
- OLLI will continue its efforts to be integrated and make contributions to UCI.
- Extension will continue to deepen its support of OCTANe and other economic development efforts in Orange County.
- Extension will create new community programs of strategic importance to both the UCI campus and the surrounding community.
- The Dean and other administrators of UCI Extension will assume responsibility for coordinating specific community-focused efforts of the UCI campus.
- University Extension will continue to be the unit through which the campus can experi-ment with subject matter, instructional technology, and supplemental education programs.
- Expand the capacity and scope of the Distance Learning Center to serve the UCI campus.
- Aid campus units in developing applied degree programs in new areas.
- University Extension will directly serve the UCI campus with its programs, services, and administrative capabilities.
- Provide career development opportunities for UCI employees.
- Help UCI develop and grow its relations with industry.
- Aid, where appropriate, in UCI’s enrollment management process.
- University Extension will serve as a major force in internationalizing our campus and increasing UCI’s reputation internationally.
- Increase international activity through strategic partnerships.
- Integrate Extension international students with matriculated UCI students.
- Support the international efforts of UCI campus units with its administrative support services and knowledge of international programs.
Summary of Relevant UCI Goals
- Unex goal: Expand and deepen CE programs for OC corporate and general public.
Increase the number of graduate students relative to the general student population to reach 25% by 2015. This will require highly focused growth at the graduate and graduate-professional levels well above the growth rate in undergraduate enrollments.
Expand and enhance distinguished and highly visible series of events in arts and public lectures, with significant publicity in the community and expanded opportunities for student-audiences through subsidized tickets and other seating discounts in all campus venues including the Barclay Theatre. (This initiative will require dedicated, centralized staff support in addition to local support in the units associated with specific activities.)
Increase public-oriented exhibits, events, and lectures in the Library and academic units to create an interface between community visitors and the educational programs, research activities, and artistic performances of the campus.
Provide social, cultural, and intellectual programs that appeal to a broad range of the population
Where consistent with UCI’s academic objectives, focus more research and academic programs on international and global issues of importance and interest to the public, and encourage the application of basic research to those issues.
Establish a larger and more prominent facility for art exhibitions on campus, and expand venues for performance in drama and music. Explore partnership with Orange County Museum while building on existing internship programs and collaborative relationships with the Los Angeles County Museum and Getty Center.
Create and lead an “Orange County Educational Consortium” to promote and facilitate interactions among different stakeholders in local schools.
Expand opportunities for life-long learning through University Extension and access to general-campus courses.
Provide more educational support for corporations and industry in the area through University Extension.
Produce expertise for the workplace focused on local industry clusters.
- Unex goal: Become and be seen as a major provider of community programs and as a major element in coordination of campus community efforts.
Improve the link between our existing physical, intellectual, cultural and technological resources and the changing needs and emerging economic opportunities in society.
Identify new institutional mechanisms that can facilitate the connection of innovative research and extramural applications and remove procedural and bureaucratic obstacles to the development of intellectual property on-campus and in collaboration with industry.
Attract more research and development-intensive businesses to the University Research Park.
Provide social, cultural, and intellectual programs that appeal to a broad range of the population.
Establish a larger and more prominent facility for art exhibitions on campus, and expand venues for performance in drama and music. Explore partnership with Orange County Museum while building on existing internship programs and collaborative relationships with the Los Angeles County Museum and Getty Center.
Coordinate programs and outreach to aging populations.
Offer public programs and expertise on health education and disease prevention and management.
Provide institutional support for start-up companies.
Create an internal coordinating structure for the main elements of our public roles that will oversee programs related to those roles and make sure those programs are known to the public.
Create a comprehensive and centralized administrative unit to oversee communications and public relations. This unit should be charged with coordinating and connecting communications across the whole campus to overcome the inevitable inconsistencies and contradictions that arise from separate efforts in isolated units. The unit must be staffed and funded at a level to make such oversight possible.
- Unex goal: Be the experimental station of the campus.
Create greater flexibility in resource utilization by leveraging state-funded FTE with non-state sources, joint hiring, improved efficiency in curricular offerings, and the development of centers and institutes.
Promote further development of technologically-enabled distance-learning modes in conjunction with classroom instruction and for fully on-line courses where appropriate.
Additional attention toward providing course resources online through the Electronic Educational Environment (EEE), including websites and evolving technologies.
Integrate technological support more thoroughly into traditional classes, and explore more uses for distance learning and web-based instruction.
Support development of subject-matter tracks in all relevant disciplines.
Create new and attractive graduate programs, including master’s degrees where appropriate for the field.
Develop more master’s programs in areas where that is the terminal degree and/or where there is unmet community need (e.g., nursing), and/or where there is a significant interest in master’s level study for professional development or personal enrichment (such as programs for teachers, etc.).
Carry out a campus information technology planning exercise to review current technology services and determine how they might be refined or enhanced to meet UCI’s academic developmental goals.
- Unex goal: Directly serve the campus.
Expand and focus resources for recruitment at undergraduate and graduate levels.
Consider and if necessary revise the administrative structure of the campus to accommodate growth better in all parts of the university.
Establish an interdisciplinary major for students seeking a multi-subject teaching credential for elementary school (see “Pathway to Teaching” in the Undergraduate Task Force Report).
Increase leadership training and growth opportunities.
Increase retention. (The campus continues to face difficulties retaining new staff. Data recently reported indicate that 68 percent of new hires do not stay with UCI beyond five years. This represents a significant cost in recruitments, hiring, and job training.)
Generate more interest in university events by expanding and better publicizing lecture series, performance events, etc.
Develop a marketing plan to create awareness of UCI activities through print, radio, and television media.
Create formal partnerships with the L.A. Times, the O.C. Register, KOCE, KCET, and both
classical music and NPR radio stations in order to get more exposure at reduced cost.
Articulate and demonstrate more effectively the multiple ways in which UCI contributes to the region’s varied economy.
Establish a data-driven marketing program on campus aligned with the institutional goals of the strategic plan.
Develop a multi-year communications plan grounded in target audience research, with specific goals, tactics, and benchmarks of success.
- Unex goal: Be a major force in internationalizing the campus and advancing its international reputation.
Develop organizational structures that are flexible enough to accommodate change and that can support first-rate departmental programs for undergraduate experiences and inter-departmental and inter-school efforts in research and graduate education. Permitting institutes and centers to offer degrees and take on curricular initiatives may be one means of achieving this end.
Create an International Village in student housing with 50/50 ratio of international to domestic students.
Integrate academic and cultural activities around international themes.
Find better means of recruiting and funding international students.
Provide meeting space for international students.
Host national meetings of minority graduate and professional organizations.
Develop structure to support and house international and area studies programs.
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