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Winter 2009 NewsRecruiting/Sponsorship EffortsRU is aligning our recruiting for undergrad and graduate schools, with several areas of primary focus. We have hired a director of military affairs, Mr. David Boisselle, and look forward to David spearheading RU’s renewed commitment to our men and women in the armed forces. David comes to us with 29 years of active military experience including educational services and training/workforce development. His primary focus will be creating relationships within the military audience and recruiting new military students to RU. If you haven’t already had the opportunity to meet David, please introduce yourself. dboisselle@regent.edu We will continue to look for outreach partners as well. As many of you know, we are now partnering with “Ignite,” a men’s ministry. We hope that this partnership yields great exposure for the university as it serves to recruit students as well. Find out more about Ignite at: http://www.ignitemen.org We are also working with Rick Warren’s new Purpose Driven Connection, a comprehensive web presence and magazine. See details at: http://www.purposedriven.com We will represent their exclusive academic sponsorship. The launch edition of this new magazine and website drops later this month to over 500,000 paid subscriptions including retailers such as Wal-Mart. Rick’s organization approached us for this highly favored position because of the quality of marketing they saw from our Promise Keepers sponsorship. Mr. David Proffitt is overseeing much of our outreach effort, as we press forward with training and support for our recruiters. Have an idea for recruiting, sponsorships or corporate partners? Let us know! dproffitt@regent.edu (Please put ‘outreach idea’ in the subject line.) Undergrad UpdateOne of our two buildings in the Regent Commons (1133) student housing area has been taken offline for this coming fall and is to be occupied by undergrads only. The rooms will be reconfigured a bit, so that we can hold about 140 traditionally aged (under 24) students in that building. We have had a lot of interest from students about joining residential life at Regent, and we feel certain that this demand will only grow in the days ahead. The administration is continuing to look at our infrastructure needs to meet the growing undergrad demands, and they include a chapel, a full-service dining facility, additional student housing, a field house and gymnasium, as well as some classroom buildings. You will surely be reading more soon on these possible expansions. Undergrad is expanding program offerings as well, with degrees in math and history joining other exciting programs. Regent Academic NewsRegent University moved from #7 to #2 nationally for online programs. In just one year, Regent University's undergraduate online programs have moved from seventh to second place nationally, based on the Online Education Database’s (OEDb) third annual Online College Rankings, released January 5. OEDb's Online College Rankings 2009 ranks 44 undergraduate colleges and universities that offer many of their degree programs online. OEDb.org has millions of visitors each year, and hundreds of thousands of potential students turn to these rankings each year when considering online study. In other news, Regent University has now joined the U-CAN network. The National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities’ consumer-information initiative U-CAN (University & College Accountability Network) is designed to give, in a common format, prospective students and their families concise, Web-based consumer-friendly information on the nation's nonprofit, private colleges and universities. Two New Academic CommitteesAs some of you know, two committees have recently been formed to respond to recommendations that arose from the Undergraduate Review Committee (URC) that met in the fall. Both committees are scheduled to complete their work and make recommendations to the Academic Council on or about March 15, 2009. The URC’s recommendations and a synopsis of each committee follows:
Shared Governance Committee This committee arose out of issues identified by the URC that met in the fall. The URC made numerous recommendations about the Undergraduate School but noted in its first recommendation that all of its other recommendations depended on the implementation and continuation of a culture of shared governance university-wide. The URC noted that addressing shared governance was beyond its task, but it made a few suggestions regarding this important issue. In response, Academic Affairs set up this advisory committee to study and advise on the issue of shared governance. By shared governance, we mean the involvement, or at least potential involvement, of all constituencies, including faculty, staff and students, in the governance of the university. The shared governance committee has been asked to identify “a clear definition for shared governance” and “between two and ten practical mechanisms for aiding in the establishing and sustaining of shared governance” at Regent University. They are to issue the final report and recommendation “on or about March 15, 2009.” Leadership: Dr. Michael Hernandez, chair Academic Integration Committee Leadership: Dr. George Selig, chair Suggestions?
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