WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.000 thank you Melanie for the 00:00:03.000 --> 00:00:07.000 afternoon so don't even try 00:00:07.000 --> 00:00:09.000 my first name -- my 00:00:09.000 --> 00:00:11.000 last name -- if you've watched 00:00:11.000 --> 00:00:13.000 The Big Bang theory -- just go 00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:15.000 with the -- there's a character 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:18.000 called Raj Koothrappali so 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:19.000 that's a base to way 00:00:19.000 --> 00:00:21.000 to go up about my name just 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:24.000 go with Raj -- it was a pleasure 00:00:24.000 --> 00:00:26.000 to be here it was fantastic 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:29.000 yesterday afternoon weather even 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:31.000 took a walk on the river side 00:00:35.000 --> 00:00:37.000 where I'm staying -- and thanks 00:00:37.000 --> 00:00:38.000 for the invitation thanks 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:41.000 for your time -- for 00:00:41.000 --> 00:00:44.000 inviting me for the Dean of -- 00:00:44.000 --> 00:00:45.000 Research and Graduate Studies 00:00:45.000 --> 00:00:47.000 at the Western Oregon University 00:00:51.000 --> 00:00:54.000 gave me the topic mission for 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:57.000 Graduate Studies and Research 00:00:59.000 --> 00:00:61.000 this presentation -- and I 00:01:01.000 --> 00:01:04.000 didn't even ask how long so 00:01:04.000 --> 00:01:06.000 I decided to go visit with an 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:08.000 approach of talking about the 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:11.000 challenges first -- and then 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:15.000 go with the -- opportunities 00:01:15.000 --> 00:01:16.000 so the opportunities are 00:01:16.000 --> 00:01:20.000 my mission for the -- Western's 00:01:20.000 --> 00:01:22.000 graduate programs and research 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:25.000 And challenges are what 00:01:25.000 --> 00:01:26.000 out there like what are 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:29.000 the difficulties we have to overcome 00:01:29.000 --> 00:01:32.000 due to the changes in the 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:34.000 demographics due to the changes 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:35.000 in market due to the changes in 00:01:35.000 --> 00:01:38.000 the needs and etcetera so I'm 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:40.000 I'm going to -- go with the 00:01:40.000 --> 00:01:43.000 graduate education first and then 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:45.000 I will switch on to research 00:01:47.000 --> 00:01:48.000 know you have questions I'm 00:01:48.000 --> 00:01:50.000 happy to answer any questions 00:01:50.000 --> 00:01:54.000 so as you know the challenges 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:58.000 in higher education the bottom line is any 00:01:58.000 --> 00:01:60.000 change in anything any system 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:03.000 will create anxiety and stress 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:05.000 so for example yesterday I want 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:08.000 my bed I want my pillow I want 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:11.000 my -- blanket -- so the 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:15.000 change it's hard but when we 00:02:15.000 --> 00:02:17.000 plan the change and based on 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:18.000 the resources we have 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:21.000 about what we have you should 00:02:21.000 --> 00:02:23.000 be able to build a coalition 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:26.000 and make changes the biggest 00:02:26.000 --> 00:02:27.000 problem in higher education 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:29.000 is the resources we all know 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:30.000 that state funding is going 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:33.000 down overall higher education 00:02:33.000 --> 00:02:34.000 enrollment is going down high 00:02:34.000 --> 00:02:35.000 school graduation rates are 00:02:35.000 --> 00:02:38.000 going down there isn't not much 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:39.000 students want to go to college 00:02:39.000 --> 00:02:41.000 anymore because we don't have 00:02:41.000 --> 00:02:42.000 enough high school graduates across 00:02:42.000 --> 00:02:45.000 the country -- so when you talk 00:02:45.000 --> 00:02:47.000 about it there is challenges 00:02:47.000 --> 00:02:48.000 with the resources previously 00:02:48.000 --> 00:02:49.000 then we have students coming 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:50.000 in to campus they are bringing 00:02:50.000 --> 00:02:53.000 tuition revenues not anymore -- 00:02:53.000 --> 00:02:55.000 so when our enrollment numbers 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:56.000 are going down tuition revenue 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:58.000 goes down -- the even 00:02:58.000 --> 00:02:60.000 the state funding from the -- 00:03:00.000 --> 00:03:02.000 from the funding -- build 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:05.000 based on the graduation rates 00:03:05.000 --> 00:03:07.000 on -- not based on enrollment 00:03:07.000 --> 00:03:08.000 number anymore they rate they just 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:10.000 give is on the product like 00:03:10.000 --> 00:03:12.000 how many students are walking 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:13.000 out of our campus with the 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:14.000 undergraduate and graduate 00:03:14.000 --> 00:03:17.000 degrees so that kind of put a 00:03:17.000 --> 00:03:19.000 stress on the resource management 00:03:19.000 --> 00:03:22.000 and then the managing the changes 00:03:22.000 --> 00:03:24.000 for example I come from out of 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:25.000 the institution that that even 00:03:27.000 --> 00:03:31.000 anxiety who's this guy okay -- from 00:03:31.000 --> 00:03:32.000 somewhere in Tennessee you know 00:03:34.000 --> 00:03:35.000 is he going to bring it in so 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:37.000 that always being a stress 00:03:37.000 --> 00:03:39.000 in that change in the management and 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:42.000 managerial's tie the bottom line 00:03:42.000 --> 00:03:43.000 is when we all work together as 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:45.000 a coalition when we know the 00:03:45.000 --> 00:03:47.000 importance of shared governance 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:48.000 know the importance of working 00:03:48.000 --> 00:03:49.000 together realize -- 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:52.000 realize the reality based 00:03:52.000 --> 00:03:55.000 on the facts based on the data we 00:03:55.000 --> 00:03:57.000 can work as a team to overcome 00:03:57.000 --> 00:03:59.000 all of this and this is not 00:03:59.000 --> 00:03:63.000 unique for Western even if 00:04:03.000 --> 00:04:04.000 I go to any other school this 00:04:04.000 --> 00:04:06.000 slide would be there this is a 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:09.000 problem every where the resources 00:04:09.000 --> 00:04:11.000 changes the stress created 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:13.000 because of the resources and 00:04:13.000 --> 00:04:15.000 changes anyway I'm now switching 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:16.000 the gear on the graduate 00:04:16.000 --> 00:04:18.000 education challenges right 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:20.000 now in graduate education 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:21.000 demographics if you look 00:04:21.000 --> 00:04:22.000 at the graduate education 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:26.000 population 1/3 is nontraditional 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:27.000 that data is 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:29.000 going to award underserved 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:31.000 communities and international 00:04:31.000 --> 00:04:33.000 students the demographics 00:04:33.000 --> 00:04:36.000 has been shifted in the last ten years 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:41.000 programs are gone after 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:44.000 you look at the comes in for 00:04:44.000 --> 00:04:47.000 graduates schools reports the 00:04:47.000 --> 00:04:49.000 demographics of the graduate 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:50.000 population is very different 00:04:50.000 --> 00:04:52.000 now -- compared to when I went 00:04:52.000 --> 00:04:55.000 to school 15 years ago 00:04:55.000 --> 00:04:57.000 it's just a combination of so 00:04:57.000 --> 00:04:59.000 many other things -- people 00:04:59.000 --> 00:04:61.000 want to work for salary want 00:05:01.000 --> 00:05:04.000 to retool themself that's 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:06.000 a nontraditional population 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:08.000 then we need to have -- online 00:05:08.000 --> 00:05:09.000 programs for them because they 00:05:09.000 --> 00:05:11.000 don't want to come on campus 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:14.000 people who've never been to 00:05:14.000 --> 00:05:15.000 grad school and want to come 00:05:15.000 --> 00:05:16.000 to grad school because they 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:18.000 realized having a higher education 00:05:18.000 --> 00:05:19.000 other than undergraduate degree 00:05:19.000 --> 00:05:21.000 is going to help them to make 00:05:21.000 --> 00:05:23.000 more money in long term -- 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:25.000 international students -- 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:26.000 due to the other situations 00:05:26.000 --> 00:05:28.000 it's finding it very hard 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:30.000 to come here anymore and second 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:31.000 problem is they need to have 00:05:31.000 --> 00:05:32.000 on ground program due to 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:34.000 immigration reasons so 00:05:34.000 --> 00:05:36.000 it's a very complex process 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:40.000 the recruitment process 00:05:40.000 --> 00:05:42.000 the job market job market -- 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:45.000 for example when I was in 00:05:45.000 --> 00:05:46.000 in my undergraduate at even a 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:48.000 master's degree if I know one 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:50.000 technology for example I'm 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:52.000 just giving you a simple example 00:05:52.000 --> 00:05:54.000 of mass spec mass spec is 00:05:54.000 --> 00:05:56.000 something to weigh something just 00:05:56.000 --> 00:05:59.000 like a -- balance okay I 00:05:59.000 --> 00:05:60.000 if I know mass spec how to 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:01.000 use -- that instrument I can 00:06:01.000 --> 00:06:06.000 get a job -- in a company -- 00:06:06.000 --> 00:06:07.000 making measuring the mass of 00:06:07.000 --> 00:06:08.000 something it can make a lot 00:06:08.000 --> 00:06:10.000 of protein or something not 00:06:10.000 --> 00:06:12.000 anymore they're looking for a 00:06:12.000 --> 00:06:16.000 well rounded person who can 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:20.000 the data record the data 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:23.000 report the data previously the 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:25.000 person just asked to put the 00:06:25.000 --> 00:06:27.000 sample in the device and wrote 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:28.000 down the number and sent it to 00:06:28.000 --> 00:06:30.000 someone else so the hands 00:06:30.000 --> 00:06:33.000 on experience changed and so 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:34.000 that leads to different types 00:06:34.000 --> 00:06:37.000 of graduate programs and 00:06:37.000 --> 00:06:39.000 no one have time I want to 00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:40.000 have or get a graduate degree 00:06:40.000 --> 00:06:43.000 in six months maybe -- I'm just 00:06:43.000 --> 00:06:44.000 making it up maybe a year so 00:06:44.000 --> 00:06:47.000 accelerated programs Purdue 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:49.000 have a pro-- they recently 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:50.000 launched maybe last four 00:06:50.000 --> 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--> 00:07:61.000 resources yes we will -- everyone 00:08:01.000 --> 00:08:03.000 will have stress we're all gonna 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:04.000 have stressed out when we talk 00:08:04.000 --> 00:08:06.000 about resources because when we 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:07.000 talk about resources existing 00:08:07.000 --> 00:08:09.000 resources then we are talking about 00:08:09.000 --> 00:08:10.000 reallocating existing resources 00:08:10.000 --> 00:08:12.000 so which means yes we have to 00:08:12.000 --> 00:08:14.000 evaluate ourself I mentioned 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:17.000 it multiple times this morning 00:08:17.000 --> 00:08:18.000 undergraduate programs are 00:08:18.000 --> 00:08:19.000 going to be there forever for 00:08:19.000 --> 00:08:21.000 example undergraduate program 00:08:21.000 --> 00:08:22.000 in chemistry going to be there 00:08:22.000 --> 00:08:23.000 for another fifty years 00:08:23.000 --> 00:08:24.000 undergraduate program in 00:08:24.000 --> 00:08:26.000 biochemistry will be there and 00:08:26.000 --> 00:08:29.000 then we have the medical schools but 00:08:29.000 --> 00:08:30.000 the graduate programs every 00:08:30.000 --> 00:08:33.000 ten years they change we have 00:08:33.000 --> 00:08:35.000 go and leave system 00:08:35.000 --> 00:08:36.000 so that and with the existing 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:38.000 program sixteen plus programs 00:08:38.000 --> 00:08:40.000 we have in master's level and 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:41.000 looking into the expansion 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:44.000 in the health science area in the 00:08:44.000 --> 00:08:46.000 future will put Western in 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:47.000 a good spot with respect to 00:08:47.000 --> 00:08:50.000 our marketing strategies and 00:08:50.000 --> 00:08:52.000 on hands on experience and 00:08:52.000 --> 00:08:53.000 experience that's required in the health 00:08:53.000 --> 00:08:55.000 industries and partnering 00:08:55.000 --> 00:08:58.000 with the local and state partners 00:08:58.000 --> 00:08:60.000 so effective -- marketing 00:09:00.000 --> 00:09:02.000 is so critical in -- in the 00:09:02.000 --> 00:09:03.000 in the way we need to find 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:06.000 why Western is unique and that 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:07.000 will be the challenge we are 00:09:07.000 --> 00:09:10.000 become-- why I have this map you 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:13.000 can see that flagship in every 00:09:13.000 --> 00:09:16.000 state they're sucking up 00:09:16.000 --> 00:09:17.000 everything all the oxygen out 00:09:17.000 --> 00:09:20.000 of the market particularly at a graduate 00:09:20.000 --> 00:09:21.000 level because they're having 00:09:21.000 --> 00:09:23.000 more versatility more hybrid 00:09:23.000 --> 00:09:25.000 more online more on ground 00:09:25.000 --> 00:09:26.000 options and we are competing 00:09:26.000 --> 00:09:29.000 these flagships so we have to 00:09:29.000 --> 00:09:32.000 find our niche unique area 00:09:37.000 --> 00:09:38.000 with the graduate programs 00:09:38.000 --> 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00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:16.000 whether the students doesn't 00:10:16.000 --> 00:10:17.000 need those kind of programs 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:19.000 or not also has to be 00:10:19.000 --> 00:10:21.000 reconsidered completely before 00:10:21.000 --> 00:10:23.000 we kind of look into the whether 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:25.000 the programs are right or 00:10:25.000 --> 00:10:27.000 not for example there'd be a decent 00:10:27.000 --> 00:10:29.000 masters degree in leadership 00:10:29.000 --> 00:10:31.000 good direction to go because I 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:34.000 learned this this morning that 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:36.000 the education requirement got 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:40.000 requirement -- is -- the state 00:10:40.000 --> 00:10:43.000 revised the policy so they 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:45.000 someone doesn't don't need to 00:10:45.000 --> 00:10:46.000 have a graduate education 00:10:46.000 --> 00:10:47.000 to be a teacher in the state of 00:10:47.000 --> 00:10:49.000 Oregon so that kind of gives a 00:10:49.000 --> 00:10:50.000 ding on our graduate 00:10:50.000 --> 00:10:52.000 enrollment in the grad -- in the 00:10:52.000 --> 00:10:53.000 College of Education 00:10:53.000 --> 00:10:54.000 so then we have to immediately 00:10:54.000 --> 00:10:56.000 retool ourself instead of 00:10:56.000 --> 00:10:58.000 retooling after this happened 00:10:58.000 --> 00:10:59.000 we should have a forward 00:10:59.000 --> 00:10:60.000 thinking and redealing of 00:11:00.000 --> 00:11:01.000 ourself in over two to three years 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:03.000 when before once they started 00:11:03.000 --> 00:11:05.000 talking about this kind of 00:11:05.000 --> 00:11:07.000 stuff -- getting into 00:11:07.000 --> 00:11:09.000 new areas and embracing 00:11:09.000 --> 00:11:12.000 multidisciplinary approach I really 00:11:12.000 --> 00:11:13.000 appreciate what you have been 00:11:13.000 --> 00:11:14.000 doing with the health care 00:11:14.000 --> 00:11:16.000 management with the master's 00:11:16.000 --> 00:11:17.000 in administration 00:11:17.000 --> 00:11:20.000 masters in leadership masters in 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:23.000 information system and so on 00:11:23.000 --> 00:11:24.000 those are the areas 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:25.000 we need to cross talk with 00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:27.000 each other in finding our niche 00:11:27.000 --> 00:11:29.000 areas with MBAs and 00:11:29.000 --> 00:11:31.000 professional MBAs and BSM 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:32.000 and professional science 00:11:32.000 --> 00:11:34.000 masters will also help with 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:35.000 accelerated professional in 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:37.000 science programs also will 00:11:37.000 --> 00:11:39.000 help us -- in out growing 00:11:39.000 --> 00:11:40.000 the graduate program in these 00:11:40.000 --> 00:11:41.000 challenging situations the 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:43.000 student support is also 00:11:43.000 --> 00:11:45.000 an important thing as I was 00:11:45.000 --> 00:11:46.000 mentioning the admission 00:11:46.000 --> 00:11:49.000 process notice is fast since we 00:11:49.000 --> 00:11:51.000 all have -- some type of smart 00:11:51.000 --> 00:11:53.000 device stuck in our human 00:11:53.000 --> 00:11:55.000 body one way or the other 00:11:57.000 --> 00:11:59.000 our emails and I want to get 00:11:59.000 --> 00:11:61.000 my admission letter ASAP -- 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:05.000 I'm not looking at you all -- so it's 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:07.000 just difficult situation you see 00:12:07.000 --> 00:12:08.000 what I mean and so and they apply 00:12:08.000 --> 00:12:09.000 for ten different schools the 00:12:09.000 --> 00:12:11.000 kids doesn't have -- student's doesn't 00:12:11.000 --> 00:12:12.000 have patience whoever's sending 00:12:12.000 --> 00:12:13.000 the admission acceptance 00:12:13.000 --> 00:12:15.000 letter they're not even going 00:12:15.000 --> 00:12:16.000 to wait for another week to 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:17.000 hear from the other school 00:12:17.000 --> 00:12:18.000 they're going to take it and 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:20.000 move on particularly professional 00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:22.000 professionals who are working 00:12:22.000 --> 00:12:23.000 full time see what I mean 00:12:23.000 --> 00:12:25.000 and -- and company's going 00:12:25.000 --> 00:12:26.000 to pay the tuition they don't 00:12:26.000 --> 00:12:29.000 care how much it's going to cost 00:12:31.000 --> 00:12:33.000 process in which they can get 00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:35.000 in get out quick and then career 00:12:35.000 --> 00:12:37.000 support I was walking 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:38.000 through the inner city center 00:12:38.000 --> 00:12:40.000 and was stopped by the 00:12:40.000 --> 00:12:41.000 courteous -- development center 00:12:41.000 --> 00:12:42.000 and learned a lot about what 00:12:42.000 --> 00:12:44.000 they offer is going to play 00:12:44.000 --> 00:12:45.000 an important role in graduate 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:47.000 recruiting and marketing -- 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:49.000 friend of mine took his son to 00:12:53.000 --> 00:12:55.000 admission there but -- -- for 00:12:55.000 --> 00:12:58.000 the two -- they're visiting for the 00:12:58.000 --> 00:12:60.000 orientation the first meeting 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:02.000 eight o'clock what they did 00:13:02.000 --> 00:13:04.000 from 8 to 8:30 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:06.000 it's just a video about 00:13:06.000 --> 00:13:09.000 career service basically what 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:11.000 happened to their graduates 00:13:11.000 --> 00:13:12.000 what they -- how many internships 00:13:12.000 --> 00:13:13.000 they're able to offer how many 00:13:13.000 --> 00:13:15.000 on campus interviews they had 00:13:15.000 --> 00:13:16.000 how many of the them have been 00:13:16.000 --> 00:13:19.000 placed in jobs so what will 00:13:19.000 --> 00:13:20.000 happen when you walk in at 00:13:20.000 --> 00:13:21.000 eight o'clock and you hear 00:13:22.000 --> 00:13:23.000 to send my kid he because he's 00:13:23.000 --> 00:13:25.000 good here they assured 00:13:25.000 --> 00:13:27.000 him a job an internship at some 00:13:27.000 --> 00:13:29.000 type of hands on experience 00:13:29.000 --> 00:13:31.000 so we need to look into those 00:13:31.000 --> 00:13:35.000 kind of opportunities so 00:13:35.000 --> 00:13:36.000 hands on research experience is 00:13:36.000 --> 00:13:38.000 the third third piece which I 00:13:38.000 --> 00:13:39.000 really think is going to be 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:42.000 important as a faculty member I 00:13:42.000 --> 00:13:44.000 really think just a classroom 00:13:44.000 --> 00:13:46.000 learning is not good enough 00:13:48.000 --> 00:13:50.000 having a hands on experience is 00:13:50.000 --> 00:13:51.000 going to help the kid get a -- 00:13:51.000 --> 00:13:53.000 the student to get a job more than 00:13:53.000 --> 00:13:54.000 just sitting in a classroom 00:13:54.000 --> 00:13:56.000 taking certain number of face 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:58.000 to face classes so we have 00:13:58.000 --> 00:13:60.000 to have a multi pronged approach 00:14:00.000 --> 00:14:01.000 to solve all these challenges 00:14:01.000 --> 00:14:04.000 so now I stressed you all out for 00:14:04.000 --> 00:14:05.000 the last ten fifteen minutes now 00:14:05.000 --> 00:14:06.000 I'm just going to make you 00:14:06.000 --> 00:14:07.000 all happy little bit based 00:14:07.000 --> 00:14:10.000 on what I learned based 00:14:10.000 --> 00:14:11.000 on my online research I 00:14:11.000 --> 00:14:13.000 found a document from 2017 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:14.000 which talked about the 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:16.000 enrollment growth based on those 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:18.000 programs which has existed at 00:14:18.000 --> 00:14:19.000 the time there are a lot of changes 00:14:19.000 --> 00:14:22.000 happen I talked to Provost Rob this morning 00:14:22.000 --> 00:14:23.000 and he changed 00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:24.000 he said lot of things has been 00:14:24.000 --> 00:14:26.000 changed from the document on 00:14:26.000 --> 00:14:27.000 and -- but I -- some 00:14:27.000 --> 00:14:29.000 of the facts I got it from the 00:14:29.000 --> 00:14:31.000 document -- to do prepare 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:33.000 this presentation -- that is 00:14:33.000 --> 00:14:35.000 actually a good starting point 00:14:37.000 --> 00:14:39.000 percent growth in the next two to 00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:42.000 three years I think I'm counting 00:14:42.000 --> 00:14:44.000 from 2020 -- because 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:45.000 it's 2017 it was 00:14:45.000 --> 00:14:47.000 twenty to twenty five percent 00:14:47.000 --> 00:14:48.000 now it's 2020 already 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:50.000 that is very important we need to 00:14:50.000 --> 00:14:53.000 have our set goals set mission 00:14:53.000 --> 00:14:55.000 for each graduate program 00:14:55.000 --> 00:14:57.000 how can we do that we have 00:14:57.000 --> 00:14:59.000 to work together based on 00:14:59.000 --> 00:14:61.000 the facts which include the 00:15:01.000 --> 00:15:03.000 faculties -- graduate program 00:15:03.000 --> 00:15:06.000 directors department chairs and 00:15:06.000 --> 00:15:08.000 the academic deans and on the 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:09.000 rest of the campus has to work 00:15:09.000 --> 00:15:10.000 together and evaluate our 00:15:10.000 --> 00:15:12.000 strategy and being real what 00:15:12.000 --> 00:15:14.000 is the capacity is there room 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:16.000 for growth if there is no room 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:17.000 for growth how can we move from 00:15:17.000 --> 00:15:20.000 here and what type of the 00:15:20.000 --> 00:15:21.000 resources are available 00:15:21.000 --> 00:15:23.000 right now for marketing -- if 00:15:23.000 --> 00:15:25.000 you bring in more resources 00:15:25.000 --> 00:15:26.000 what type of marketing we're 00:15:26.000 --> 00:15:28.000 able to do and how many applicants 00:15:28.000 --> 00:15:30.000 we can bring up bring more and 00:15:30.000 --> 00:15:31.000 how many students we can admit 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:32.000 more how many students 00:15:32.000 --> 00:15:34.000 we can graduate more so we 00:15:34.000 --> 00:15:35.000 need to have a data driven 00:15:35.000 --> 00:15:38.000 strategy efficient for college 00:15:38.000 --> 00:15:41.000 and graduates -- student support 00:15:41.000 --> 00:15:42.000 is also another big piece 00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:44.000 as you know a lot of scholarships 00:15:44.000 --> 00:15:46.000 are available plus 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:48.000 waivers assistantships we have 00:15:48.000 --> 00:15:49.000 to be innovative enough to 00:15:49.000 --> 00:15:50.000 offer different assistantship 00:15:50.000 --> 00:15:52.000 packages I was -- I proposed 00:15:52.000 --> 00:15:54.000 several ideas talked about 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:55.000 discussed several ideas from 00:15:55.000 --> 00:15:57.000 this morning which include GTAs 00:15:57.000 --> 00:15:58.000 which we already have 00:16:00.000 --> 00:16:02.000 we can be innovative in in 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:04.000 offering more GTA positions 00:16:06.000 --> 00:16:09.000 needs -- we can for example 00:16:12.000 --> 00:16:15.000 offerings -- and have GTAs 00:16:15.000 --> 00:16:17.000 oversee those classes so that 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:19.000 basically GTAs will be producing 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:20.000 undergraduate credit hours 00:16:20.000 --> 00:16:22.000 is it a faculty -- yes senior 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:23.000 faculty member teaching four 00:16:23.000 --> 00:16:25.000 section the senior faculty 00:16:25.000 --> 00:16:26.000 member will be just overeeing 00:16:26.000 --> 00:16:27.000 those GAs basically 00:16:27.000 --> 00:16:29.000 coaches those coaches will 00:16:29.000 --> 00:16:30.000 be interacting with the 00:16:31.000 --> 00:16:32.000 students but still the faculty 00:16:32.000 --> 00:16:34.000 will have a full control 00:16:34.000 --> 00:16:36.000 oversight of the process which 00:16:36.000 --> 00:16:38.000 include teaching and curriculum 00:16:38.000 --> 00:16:40.000 and quality and the grading and 00:16:40.000 --> 00:16:43.000 execution etcetera so there are 00:16:43.000 --> 00:16:45.000 multiple ways we can we can 00:16:45.000 --> 00:16:48.000 find out which model fits -- 00:16:48.000 --> 00:16:50.000 so that by doing this we also 00:16:50.000 --> 00:16:52.000 not -- we're also making the 00:16:52.000 --> 00:16:53.000 process financially sustainable 00:16:53.000 --> 00:16:55.000 graduate program financially 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:57.000 sustainable by recruiting this 00:16:57.000 --> 00:16:58.000 graduate student as a graduate 00:16:58.000 --> 00:16:62.000 assistants -- and because as 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:03.000 one of the I think professional 00:17:03.000 --> 00:17:06.000 commitment we should offer 00:17:06.000 --> 00:17:08.000 of our graduate students 00:17:08.000 --> 00:17:10.000 a professional training -- you 00:17:10.000 --> 00:17:12.000 know how to walk -- if for 00:17:12.000 --> 00:17:14.000 example in a teacher how to be 00:17:14.000 --> 00:17:15.000 a teacher for example I'm able 00:17:15.000 --> 00:17:16.000 to teach being a good teacher 00:17:16.000 --> 00:17:19.000 because I was a GTA taught chemistry labs 00:17:19.000 --> 00:17:21.000 when I was a graduate student 00:17:23.000 --> 00:17:25.000 I was teaching here in America 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:27.000 I learned the system I've 00:17:27.000 --> 00:17:28.000 been through the training 00:17:28.000 --> 00:17:29.000 process and that kind of 00:17:29.000 --> 00:17:30.000 helped me to go through the 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:32.000 cycle so we have to find out 00:17:32.000 --> 00:17:33.000 the revenue generating 00:17:33.000 --> 00:17:35.000 graduate assistantship which 00:17:35.000 --> 00:17:37.000 is basically a graduate student 00:17:37.000 --> 00:17:39.000 teaching undergraduate freshman 00:17:39.000 --> 00:17:41.000 level classes to alleviate 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:42.000 the stress from the faculty 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:44.000 teaching lower in the meantime 00:17:44.000 --> 00:17:46.000 producing a SCH student credit 00:17:46.000 --> 00:17:48.000 hours -- basically that will 00:17:48.000 --> 00:17:50.000 translate into revenue so 00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:51.000 at the end of the day we are 00:17:51.000 --> 00:17:52.000 not we should not be losing 00:17:52.000 --> 00:17:53.000 money by offering assistantships 00:17:53.000 --> 00:17:55.000 we are generating revenue 00:17:55.000 --> 00:17:56.000 because as you know at the end of 00:17:56.000 --> 00:17:57.000 the day when this graduate 00:17:57.000 --> 00:17:58.000 student graduates we also get 00:17:58.000 --> 00:17:59.000 the revenue from the state 00:17:59.000 --> 00:17:62.000 funding model so we need to 00:18:02.000 --> 00:18:03.000 consider all those factors in 00:18:03.000 --> 00:18:04.000 and come up with the -- with a 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:06.000 mathematical formula what is 00:18:06.000 --> 00:18:09.000 the number we should be 00:18:09.000 --> 00:18:10.000 able to offer for a graduate 00:18:10.000 --> 00:18:12.000 assistantship there are plenty 00:18:12.000 --> 00:18:13.000 of room to grow based on 00:18:13.000 --> 00:18:15.000 the previous last five years 00:18:15.000 --> 00:18:17.000 institutional research data I 00:18:17.000 --> 00:18:18.000 found that there is a minimum 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:19.000 ten percent growth immediately 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:21.000 within the next year or two because 00:18:21.000 --> 00:18:23.000 of the drop in enrollment in 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:25.000 lost -- five years so 00:18:25.000 --> 00:18:26.000 which we are 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:28.000 we had a faculty -- we had classrooms 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:30.000 we had -- class sections 00:18:30.000 --> 00:18:31.000 which accommodated that many 00:18:31.000 --> 00:18:34.000 numbers of students five years ago 00:18:34.000 --> 00:18:35.000 now the numbers have dropped so which 00:18:35.000 --> 00:18:37.000 means there are spots available so 00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:40.000 we can we can ramp up the 00:18:40.000 --> 00:18:42.000 marketing efforts to come back 00:18:42.000 --> 00:18:44.000 to the level how it used to 00:18:44.000 --> 00:18:46.000 be five years ago that's a bare 00:18:46.000 --> 00:18:48.000 minimum we can do immediately 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:49.000 because that system was placed 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:51.000 based on the how many faculty 00:18:51.000 --> 00:18:52.000 members we had five years 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:54.000 ago we know how many graduate 00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:56.000 program we had five years ago 00:18:56.000 --> 00:18:58.000 and so on and then we can also 00:18:58.000 --> 00:18:60.000 create 3 plus 2 4 plus 1 00:19:00.000 --> 00:19:02.000 to recruit and retain our 00:19:02.000 --> 00:19:03.000 own top notch end of graduate 00:19:03.000 --> 00:19:07.000 students this idea happened 00:19:07.000 --> 00:19:09.000 long time ago several of 00:19:09.000 --> 00:19:11.000 pre professional students 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:12.000 because I'm from a chemistry 00:19:12.000 --> 00:19:13.000 and biology department so I talk 00:19:13.000 --> 00:19:15.000 about professional students 00:19:17.000 --> 00:19:19.000 didn't do well but you know 00:19:19.000 --> 00:19:20.000 most of them are doing some 00:19:20.000 --> 00:19:21.000 type of research activity with 00:19:21.000 --> 00:19:22.000 this as I'm a graduate student 00:19:22.000 --> 00:19:24.000 because that's required for 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:25.000 them to get into professional 00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:28.000 schools so they came back to 00:19:28.000 --> 00:19:30.000 our office and said hey you know 00:19:30.000 --> 00:19:31.000 I couldn't able to get into med 00:19:31.000 --> 00:19:32.000 school or pharmacy school or 00:19:32.000 --> 00:19:35.000 dental school or -- 00:19:35.000 --> 00:19:37.000 vet school what can I do well 00:19:37.000 --> 00:19:38.000 you have been doing research 00:19:38.000 --> 00:19:39.000 already why don't you stay 00:19:39.000 --> 00:19:40.000 back for one more year and 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:42.000 start taking graduate classes 00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:43.000 for three semesters which is 00:19:43.000 --> 00:19:44.000 fall spring summer and get 00:19:44.000 --> 00:19:46.000 a masters degree because you 00:19:46.000 --> 00:19:47.000 already started doing research 00:19:47.000 --> 00:19:49.000 with me from your junior year 00:19:49.000 --> 00:19:51.000 as undergraduate use the same 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:53.000 project expand it see what I 00:19:53.000 --> 00:19:54.000 mean do more for the next one more 00:19:54.000 --> 00:19:57.000 year and your thesis is ready 00:19:57.000 --> 00:19:59.000 so four plus one and I was 00:19:59.000 --> 00:19:62.000 talking to -- Provost this morning 00:20:02.000 --> 00:20:03.000 and they have been moving on 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:05.000 on this with this fifteen credit 00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:06.000 double double dip between 00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:08.000 undergraduate and graduate 00:20:08.000 --> 00:20:10.000 which is fantastic actually 00:20:10.000 --> 00:20:12.000 we don't go and market 00:20:12.000 --> 00:20:13.000 outside we need to market our 00:20:13.000 --> 00:20:15.000 own undergraduates I don't know 00:20:15.000 --> 00:20:16.000 the numbers how many of our 00:20:16.000 --> 00:20:17.000 of our own undergraduates are 00:20:17.000 --> 00:20:18.000 getting into our own graduate 00:20:18.000 --> 00:20:20.000 programs I'm not sure typically 00:20:20.000 --> 00:20:22.000 it's very low because they don't 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:23.000 even notice a thing called 00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:24.000 graduate school exists and 00:20:24.000 --> 00:20:26.000 we have this many programs 00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:29.000 and they can learn -- from that 00:20:29.000 --> 00:20:30.000 experience and they don't even 00:20:30.000 --> 00:20:32.000 know what that for example 00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:35.000 to convince a lot of other 00:20:35.000 --> 00:20:37.000 undergraduate I say okay 00:20:37.000 --> 00:20:39.000 you you've got undergraduate 00:20:39.000 --> 00:20:40.000 degree in biochemistry you 00:20:40.000 --> 00:20:41.000 didn't get into med school now 00:20:41.000 --> 00:20:43.000 you're looking for a job as a 00:20:43.000 --> 00:20:45.000 chemist or biochemist working 00:20:45.000 --> 00:20:46.000 in a small company Nashville 00:20:46.000 --> 00:20:47.000 or somewhere I said why don't you 00:20:47.000 --> 00:20:48.000 stay back and get a master's 00:20:48.000 --> 00:20:50.000 degree the difference is on 00:20:50.000 --> 00:20:52.000 average if you stay in the workforce 00:20:52.000 --> 00:20:54.000 average lifespan of any 00:20:54.000 --> 00:20:57.000 American in -- in work force if 00:20:57.000 --> 00:20:58.000 you have a master's degree you will 00:20:58.000 --> 00:20:59.000 make a million dollars more 00:20:59.000 --> 00:20:60.000 than having undergraduate 00:21:00.000 --> 00:21:02.000 degree so my mantra is always 00:21:02.000 --> 00:21:05.000 learn more earn more so pushing 00:21:05.000 --> 00:21:07.000 them in a way to you know make 00:21:07.000 --> 00:21:09.000 impression that getting a 00:21:09.000 --> 00:21:10.000 a graduate degree is always 00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:12.000 going to be beneficial -- in 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:14.000 the long run instead of checking out 00:21:14.000 --> 00:21:15.000 with undergraduate degree and 00:21:15.000 --> 00:21:17.000 getting into the work force we 00:21:17.000 --> 00:21:18.000 can do that we can -- we can 00:21:18.000 --> 00:21:20.000 definitely able to do four plus 00:21:20.000 --> 00:21:22.000 one three plus two depends 00:21:22.000 --> 00:21:23.000 on the program needs yes I 00:21:23.000 --> 00:21:25.000 agree there are some accreditations 00:21:25.000 --> 00:21:26.000 required for some program 00:21:26.000 --> 00:21:28.000 which trust it does not 00:21:28.000 --> 00:21:31.000 but not all the programs like 00:21:31.000 --> 00:21:33.000 some program can -- can 00:21:33.000 --> 00:21:34.000 adapt three plus two four plus 00:21:34.000 --> 00:21:37.000 one tracks since I -- this job 00:21:37.000 --> 00:21:38.000 also talk about research I'll 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:40.000 just brag little bit about 00:21:40.000 --> 00:21:42.000 research -- I just need a 00:21:42.000 --> 00:21:43.000 mold the research fees into the 00:21:43.000 --> 00:21:45.000 graduate education the 00:21:45.000 --> 00:21:48.000 research intensive is a track 00:21:48.000 --> 00:21:50.000 which I really appreciate the 00:21:50.000 --> 00:21:52.000 reason is in my previous 00:21:52.000 --> 00:21:55.000 institution -- board had just 00:21:55.000 --> 00:21:56.000 has a master's degree 00:21:56.000 --> 00:21:58.000 program in chemistry they don't 00:21:58.000 --> 00:21:60.000 have a PhD program so all my 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:02.000 such productivity is based on 00:22:02.000 --> 00:22:04.000 master students because they 00:22:04.000 --> 00:22:05.000 they stay in the lab well 00:22:05.000 --> 00:22:06.000 like in the program for two 00:22:06.000 --> 00:22:08.000 years and they graduate right they 00:22:08.000 --> 00:22:10.000 will be gone not like PhD 00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:11.000 my school -- like 00:22:11.000 --> 00:22:13.000 I have a unsigned contract with 00:22:13.000 --> 00:22:15.000 me for forty years minimal -- so 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:16.000 I have to do everything what 00:22:16.000 --> 00:22:18.000 he asked me to do -- 15 through 00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:20.000 eighty hours a week sometime 00:22:20.000 --> 00:22:22.000 but the masters students are 00:22:22.000 --> 00:22:25.000 busy taking classes for all 00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:26.000 those two years because they 00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:27.000 have to finish out the thirty 00:22:27.000 --> 00:22:29.000 hours of classes and they have to 00:22:29.000 --> 00:22:31.000 do research and as soon as they 00:22:31.000 --> 00:22:33.000 are done with their classes 00:22:33.000 --> 00:22:34.000 they're done with the program 00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:35.000 and they're leaving they're 00:22:35.000 --> 00:22:38.000 gone so all the time and effort 00:22:38.000 --> 00:22:39.000 the faculty member put on the 00:22:39.000 --> 00:22:40.000 graduates well then dismissed it 00:22:40.000 --> 00:22:41.000 now I have to go back and train 00:22:41.000 --> 00:22:44.000 the next one that's the biggest 00:22:44.000 --> 00:22:46.000 problem in graduate masters 00:22:46.000 --> 00:22:48.000 level of graduate school -- 00:22:48.000 --> 00:22:50.000 masters level program tried to do some 00:22:50.000 --> 00:22:53.000 type of research so we had to 00:22:53.000 --> 00:22:54.000 be innovative enough and cut 00:22:54.000 --> 00:22:56.000 down the face to face classes 00:22:56.000 --> 00:22:57.000 and introduce a research focus 00:22:57.000 --> 00:22:59.000 classes for example if a -- if 00:22:59.000 --> 00:22:61.000 a student under the supervision 00:23:01.000 --> 00:23:02.000 of the faculty member write 00:23:02.000 --> 00:23:04.000 a proposal a federal 00:23:04.000 --> 00:23:05.000 proposal those faculty members are 00:23:05.000 --> 00:23:07.000 exploring writing NCFNIH 00:23:07.000 --> 00:23:09.000 or any type of federal proposal 00:23:09.000 --> 00:23:10.000 they can supervise this 00:23:10.000 --> 00:23:12.000 graduate student to write a 00:23:12.000 --> 00:23:14.000 fifteen page document and do 00:23:14.000 --> 00:23:15.000 the process and the student 00:23:15.000 --> 00:23:16.000 will let the student do a 00:23:16.000 --> 00:23:17.000 presentation to a faculty 00:23:17.000 --> 00:23:19.000 committee within the department 00:23:19.000 --> 00:23:20.000 and then the committee feels 00:23:20.000 --> 00:23:22.000 that this is a -- to the 00:23:22.000 --> 00:23:24.000 level of a graduate student 00:23:24.000 --> 00:23:25.000 then the student well get a certain 00:23:25.000 --> 00:23:27.000 number of credit hours so 00:23:27.000 --> 00:23:28.000 this will cut the students 00:23:28.000 --> 00:23:31.000 sitting in a classroom 00:23:31.000 --> 00:23:32.000 because most of the time the 00:23:32.000 --> 00:23:33.000 masters students will be spending 00:23:33.000 --> 00:23:35.000 time in the classroom if you 00:23:35.000 --> 00:23:36.000 ask them to do any type of 00:23:36.000 --> 00:23:37.000 research they're going to say 00:23:37.000 --> 00:23:39.000 hey I'm busy with my classes I'm 00:23:39.000 --> 00:23:40.000 taking nine hours to allow us 00:23:40.000 --> 00:23:41.000 so see what I mean because I 00:23:41.000 --> 00:23:43.000 need to graduate soon -- they 00:23:43.000 --> 00:23:44.000 don't have any time to do 00:23:44.000 --> 00:23:47.000 research so there are ways to 00:23:47.000 --> 00:23:49.000 change that hypothesis in certain 00:23:49.000 --> 00:23:50.000 program again this -- 00:23:50.000 --> 00:23:52.000 all -- this model what I'm talking 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:54.000 is not it's a -- not a universal 00:23:54.000 --> 00:23:56.000 concept we can take and adapt 00:23:56.000 --> 00:23:58.000 and modify and change based 00:23:58.000 --> 00:23:60.000 on the needs and requirements 00:24:00.000 --> 00:24:02.000 okay so don't think that this is 00:24:02.000 --> 00:24:03.000 like this is only thing we 00:24:03.000 --> 00:24:06.000 can do no it doesn't fit for 00:24:06.000 --> 00:24:07.000 some of the program at all zero 00:24:07.000 --> 00:24:09.000 programs will fit in we have to 00:24:09.000 --> 00:24:10.000 stick with what we have right 00:24:10.000 --> 00:24:13.000 now on the diversity I saw 00:24:13.000 --> 00:24:14.000 the -- institutional 00:24:14.000 --> 00:24:16.000 research data the international 00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:18.000 student enrollment is down out 00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:19.000 of state student involvement 00:24:19.000 --> 00:24:22.000 is down so I honestly will 00:24:22.000 --> 00:24:23.000 the first thing will be working 00:24:23.000 --> 00:24:25.000 with our graduate 00:24:25.000 --> 00:24:26.000 studies team institutional 00:24:26.000 --> 00:24:28.000 research team to find out about 00:24:28.000 --> 00:24:30.000 the demographics of our application pool 00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:31.000 where they're coming from what 00:24:31.000 --> 00:24:33.000 do they need and how can we 00:24:33.000 --> 00:24:36.000 expand our marketing strategies 00:24:36.000 --> 00:24:38.000 to bring in more apps and more 00:24:38.000 --> 00:24:40.000 attract more application to 00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:42.000 towards Western based on our program 00:24:42.000 --> 00:24:45.000 needs -- and if we that's 00:24:45.000 --> 00:24:47.000 why I said we need our online 00:24:47.000 --> 00:24:48.000 we need to have on hybrid 00:24:48.000 --> 00:24:50.000 to be our on ground to 00:24:50.000 --> 00:24:54.000 do all this okay online for 00:24:54.000 --> 00:24:57.000 professional hybrids for locals 00:24:57.000 --> 00:24:61.000 on ground for international so 00:25:01.000 --> 00:25:03.000 so it's like we need a Whole 00:25:03.000 --> 00:25:06.000 Foods we need Walmart we 00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:08.000 still need three different 00:25:08.000 --> 00:25:10.000 options so we just need all the 00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:12.000 options -- but all the options 00:25:12.000 --> 00:25:14.000 doesn't fit for again all the 00:25:14.000 --> 00:25:15.000 programs we need to find out 00:25:15.000 --> 00:25:18.000 which will fit the existing 00:25:18.000 --> 00:25:20.000 programs and how we can 00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:22.000 accommodate the changes even 00:25:22.000 --> 00:25:24.000 in the 2017 00:25:24.000 --> 00:25:25.000 involvement strategy we 00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:27.000 mission document there were 00:25:27.000 --> 00:25:30.000 several initiatives towards 00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:32.000 how to increase the marketing 00:25:32.000 --> 00:25:35.000 and recruitment activity online 00:25:35.000 --> 00:25:37.000 activities on ground activities 00:25:40.000 --> 00:25:42.000 you guys spelled it out there 00:25:42.000 --> 00:25:43.000 was bullet points there 00:25:46.000 --> 00:25:47.000 of it -- but we have to be 00:25:47.000 --> 00:25:49.000 smart in strategy 00:25:49.000 --> 00:25:51.000 and and find out where to spend 00:25:51.000 --> 00:25:53.000 when to spend how to spend its 00:25:53.000 --> 00:25:55.000 if we cannot -- we cannot afford 00:25:55.000 --> 00:25:56.000 our own -- we need to find 00:25:56.000 --> 00:25:57.000 out when our influx of 00:25:57.000 --> 00:25:58.000 applications are and we need 00:25:58.000 --> 00:25:60.000 to call just before that two 00:26:00.000 --> 00:26:01.000 months three months before 00:26:01.000 --> 00:26:03.000 that on the partnerships we 00:26:03.000 --> 00:26:05.000 need to build up at the local 00:26:05.000 --> 00:26:08.000 and state level -- institutions 00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:10.000 and industries and -- 00:26:13.000 --> 00:26:14.000 send there students out as part of their 00:26:14.000 --> 00:26:16.000 employees and -- and 00:26:16.000 --> 00:26:18.000 to Western to get in 00:26:18.000 --> 00:26:20.000 into the program 00:26:20.000 --> 00:26:22.000 the graduate program and the strength 00:26:22.000 --> 00:26:25.000 is that Western is moving 00:26:25.000 --> 00:26:27.000 came this close to be a HSI 00:26:27.000 --> 00:26:29.000 I am very pleased and happy 00:26:29.000 --> 00:26:30.000 to see that in a state like 00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:32.000 Oregon where you have HSI 00:26:35.000 --> 00:26:38.000 international diversity -- 00:26:38.000 --> 00:26:39.000 because it seems like you used 00:26:39.000 --> 00:26:41.000 to have -- lot of Saudis 00:26:41.000 --> 00:26:43.000 and some there was students 00:26:43.000 --> 00:26:45.000 from China and it's straight 00:26:45.000 --> 00:26:47.000 out because how the Goldman 00:26:47.000 --> 00:26:49.000 pulled out the scholarship -- 00:26:49.000 --> 00:26:51.000 four five years ago one of my 00:26:51.000 --> 00:26:53.000 previous institution used to 00:26:53.000 --> 00:26:54.000 make twenty million dollars a 00:26:54.000 --> 00:26:58.000 year now they are bankrupt because 00:26:58.000 --> 00:26:60.000 they're all gone so it's 00:27:00.000 --> 00:27:01.000 become a huge problem five 00:27:01.000 --> 00:27:03.000 years ago because it's 00:27:03.000 --> 00:27:04.000 the embassy cut the budget in 00:27:06.000 --> 00:27:08.000 then it started going down right 00:27:08.000 --> 00:27:09.000 now they are making five to 00:27:09.000 --> 00:27:11.000 six million dollars -- they have 00:27:11.000 --> 00:27:13.000 to make a structural changes 00:27:18.000 --> 00:27:19.000 is not a big cutting institution 00:27:19.000 --> 00:27:21.000 the previous institution -- so 00:27:21.000 --> 00:27:23.000 we have to be smart -- we should 00:27:23.000 --> 00:27:25.000 not delay on those kind of 00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:28.000 fluctuating markets 00:27:28.000 --> 00:27:29.000 we have the have a property of more 00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:32.000 use with -- with school 00:27:32.000 --> 00:27:33.000 who are there to bring students 00:27:33.000 --> 00:27:35.000 instead of delaying on embassies 00:27:35.000 --> 00:27:36.000 and consulates to postpone 00:27:36.000 --> 00:27:39.000 the assistantships -- so 00:27:39.000 --> 00:27:41.000 that's where the that's where 00:27:41.000 --> 00:27:43.000 the my previous experience from 00:27:43.000 --> 00:27:44.000 my previous institution that's 00:27:44.000 --> 00:27:46.000 what I learned is creating a more 00:27:46.000 --> 00:27:48.000 use through those kids from where 00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:49.000 they're coming from ask them 00:27:49.000 --> 00:27:51.000 which undergraduate institution 00:27:51.000 --> 00:27:52.000 you came from travel there 00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:53.000 get to know you with them 00:27:53.000 --> 00:27:55.000 on the data they include the students 00:27:55.000 --> 00:27:57.000 from that instead of laying on 00:27:57.000 --> 00:27:58.000 government agencies and so 00:27:58.000 --> 00:27:60.000 on because sometimes those kids can 00:28:00.000 --> 00:28:01.000 spend their own money to come here 00:28:01.000 --> 00:28:04.000 and study instead of laying on 00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:05.000 a scholarship or stipend 00:28:05.000 --> 00:28:07.000 from the Saudi government 00:28:07.000 --> 00:28:10.000 or any other government for example so it is a 00:28:10.000 --> 00:28:12.000 summary I I'll talk about all 00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:15.000 these bullet points so my job 00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:20.000 is to come here learn from all 00:28:20.000 --> 00:28:22.000 of you someone asked me what's 00:28:22.000 --> 00:28:24.000 your plan for the first week 00:28:24.000 --> 00:28:25.000 this morning I said I need to 00:28:25.000 --> 00:28:27.000 find a yoga studio first week 00:28:27.000 --> 00:28:28.000 so I need to go do some 00:28:28.000 --> 00:28:30.000 hot yoga first before I come 00:28:30.000 --> 00:28:33.000 here so but the plan is to 00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:35.000 have a plan in place -- it's a 00:28:35.000 --> 00:28:37.000 it's a plan be 00:28:37.000 --> 00:28:40.000 all on board based on the 00:28:40.000 --> 00:28:43.000 programs enrollment student 00:28:43.000 --> 00:28:46.000 support financial model the 00:28:46.000 --> 00:28:48.000 sources and research and 00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:49.000 diversity we need to have a 00:28:49.000 --> 00:28:52.000 well grounded plan for each 00:28:52.000 --> 00:28:55.000 programs because that's going to 00:28:55.000 --> 00:28:57.000 help us to move forward because 00:28:57.000 --> 00:28:60.000 Provost mentioned this morning that 00:29:00.000 --> 00:29:01.000 in five years from now we are 00:29:01.000 --> 00:29:03.000 going to move state expect 00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:04.000 us to move because of the demographic 00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:07.000 changes on health science 00:29:07.000 --> 00:29:08.000 which require more additional 00:29:08.000 --> 00:29:10.000 resources you know additional 00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:12.000 facilities additional revenues 00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:15.000 under the execute about 00:29:15.000 --> 00:29:17.000 things we need to have a multi 00:29:17.000 --> 00:29:19.000 layered multi year recruitment 00:29:19.000 --> 00:29:21.000 plan as I said it's not 00:29:21.000 --> 00:29:23.000 going to happen overnight 00:29:23.000 --> 00:29:25.000 when I am able to increase the 00:29:25.000 --> 00:29:26.000 graduate program enrollment 00:29:26.000 --> 00:29:27.000 in my chemistry department 00:29:27.000 --> 00:29:29.000 in fourteen to thirty four in 00:29:29.000 --> 00:29:33.000 four years it took me four years 00:29:33.000 --> 00:29:34.000 we were also able to increase the 00:29:34.000 --> 00:29:37.000 diversity before I became a 00:29:37.000 --> 00:29:40.000 graduate program director -- 00:29:40.000 --> 00:29:41.000 out of fourteen students ten 00:29:41.000 --> 00:29:44.000 students came from India and 00:29:44.000 --> 00:29:47.000 they came from the same town 00:29:47.000 --> 00:29:49.000 it's a town called Hyderabad 00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:51.000 I'm not from Hyderabad I'm south 00:29:51.000 --> 00:29:53.000 of Hyderabad these kids ten 00:29:53.000 --> 00:29:54.000 of them will stay in the 00:29:54.000 --> 00:29:56.000 hallway talking in their own language 00:29:56.000 --> 00:29:59.000 all the time our faculty 00:29:59.000 --> 00:29:61.000 started complaining this is 00:30:01.000 --> 00:30:02.000 kind of we need to diversify 00:30:02.000 --> 00:30:04.000 our population see what I mean 00:30:04.000 --> 00:30:05.000 we're they're not getting integrated 00:30:05.000 --> 00:30:08.000 into the department so when we 00:30:08.000 --> 00:30:09.000 increase the fourteen to thirty 00:30:09.000 --> 00:30:12.000 four one of my original goal 00:30:12.000 --> 00:30:15.000 is to diversify the population 00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:17.000 and strategically why I did 00:30:17.000 --> 00:30:18.000 this I'd diversify because 00:30:18.000 --> 00:30:19.000 you know in India I 00:30:19.000 --> 00:30:21.000 know that a twenty eight state 00:30:21.000 --> 00:30:23.000 thirty plus languages so that 00:30:23.000 --> 00:30:25.000 there are multiples states where I can 00:30:25.000 --> 00:30:27.000 go and recruit so I'm able to make 00:30:27.000 --> 00:30:28.000 those connection diversify 00:30:28.000 --> 00:30:30.000 the population so now they 00:30:30.000 --> 00:30:32.000 like when I left -- the 00:30:32.000 --> 00:30:33.000 previous institution there are 00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:35.000 students from four different 00:30:35.000 --> 00:30:37.000 state for different languages 00:30:37.000 --> 00:30:38.000 so they stop talking in the 00:30:38.000 --> 00:30:40.000 hallway so just an example so 00:30:43.000 --> 00:30:44.000 they all need had to speak in 00:30:44.000 --> 00:30:47.000 English now -- so it's a multi 00:30:47.000 --> 00:30:49.000 year process so how we have to be patient 00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:51.000 we have to have a -- 00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:54.000 plan work together with the 00:30:54.000 --> 00:30:55.000 graduate program directors and 00:30:55.000 --> 00:30:56.000 the deans and the department 00:30:56.000 --> 00:30:57.000 chairs with the office of 00:30:57.000 --> 00:30:58.000 graduate studies and provost 00:30:58.000 --> 00:30:60.000 office and our marketing team 00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:02.000 on campus and our communication 00:31:02.000 --> 00:31:03.000 faculty members they are 00:31:03.000 --> 00:31:06.000 experts to suggest us a way 00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:09.000 to do this implement our new 00:31:09.000 --> 00:31:12.000 programs based on the needs 00:31:12.000 --> 00:31:13.000 and study that a lot of 00:31:13.000 --> 00:31:16.000 research can be done -- doing 00:31:16.000 --> 00:31:18.000 like local regional needs to 00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:19.000 see what I mean what do we 00:31:19.000 --> 00:31:21.000 need we can find out what our 00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:22.000 next phase of growth would 00:31:22.000 --> 00:31:23.000 be is it a professional 00:31:23.000 --> 00:31:25.000 doctoral what type of health 00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:26.000 science degree it's a health 00:31:26.000 --> 00:31:28.000 care administration out of health 00:31:28.000 --> 00:31:32.000 science nursing DNP societies 00:31:32.000 --> 00:31:34.000 what do we need know -- who we want 00:31:34.000 --> 00:31:36.000 to be five to ten years from 00:31:36.000 --> 00:31:37.000 now communicate effectively 00:31:37.000 --> 00:31:39.000 which has made me change make 00:31:39.000 --> 00:31:42.000 a plan the execution is 00:31:42.000 --> 00:31:43.000 the biggest problem because 00:31:43.000 --> 00:31:44.000 we don't tell the community 00:31:44.000 --> 00:31:47.000 what is going on so the bottom 00:31:47.000 --> 00:31:48.000 line is go and talk to everyone 00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:51.000 -- that's what I said this 00:31:51.000 --> 00:31:52.000 afternoon -- this morning in 00:31:54.000 --> 00:31:57.000 my job is to relay on the 00:31:57.000 --> 00:31:58.000 academic dean's the chairs and 00:31:58.000 --> 00:31:61.000 the provost in communicating the 00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:02.000 what is going on in college of 00:32:02.000 --> 00:32:03.000 graduate studies and research 00:32:03.000 --> 00:32:04.000 office asked well as to the 00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:06.000 Faculty Senate -- as well as 00:32:06.000 --> 00:32:08.000 to the faculty union in every 00:32:08.000 --> 00:32:10.000 possible opportunities I have 00:32:10.000 --> 00:32:12.000 to resonate the message I have 00:32:12.000 --> 00:32:14.000 to tell them this is happening 00:32:14.000 --> 00:32:15.000 this is happening because the 00:32:15.000 --> 00:32:16.000 message has to trickle down 00:32:16.000 --> 00:32:19.000 all the way that's so critical 00:32:19.000 --> 00:32:21.000 when we try to implement a plan 00:32:21.000 --> 00:32:22.000 attract a diverse group which 00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:24.000 includes faculty members so 00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:25.000 I mentioned that to the provost 00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:27.000 this morning this -- 00:32:27.000 --> 00:32:29.000 if you really want to move on 00:32:30.000 --> 00:32:32.000 a hands on training research 00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:33.000 experience for undergraduate 00:32:33.000 --> 00:32:35.000 students which is ninety 00:32:35.000 --> 00:32:36.000 percent of our population we 00:32:36.000 --> 00:32:38.000 would start from our faculty members 00:32:38.000 --> 00:32:39.000 what type of faculty members 00:32:39.000 --> 00:32:41.000 we hire you know what type of 00:32:41.000 --> 00:32:42.000 background we may be required 00:32:42.000 --> 00:32:44.000 from them until and so on and we 00:32:44.000 --> 00:32:47.000 learn more together every 00:32:47.000 --> 00:32:49.000 day's a learning I mention 00:32:49.000 --> 00:32:50.000 this thing again this morning 00:32:50.000 --> 00:32:51.000 I'm a person with the growth 00:32:51.000 --> 00:32:53.000 mindset so you can expect me 00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:56.000 to learn every day -- I like 00:32:56.000 --> 00:32:58.000 failures every failure I 00:32:58.000 --> 00:32:61.000 learn more -- so that's better 00:33:01.000 --> 00:33:02.000 than having a fixed mindset and 00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:04.000 don't want to change anything 00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:06.000 and to be able to expand our 00:33:06.000 --> 00:33:08.000 Western experience sell it 00:33:08.000 --> 00:33:10.000 Oregon is selling it thirty 00:33:10.000 --> 00:33:12.000 minutes out of 8 hour 00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:14.000 program after thirty minutes 00:33:14.000 --> 00:33:16.000 the parents are sold completely 00:33:16.000 --> 00:33:18.000 sold because of the placement 00:33:18.000 --> 00:33:19.000 an internship and credits and 00:33:19.000 --> 00:33:21.000 what that what the university 00:33:21.000 --> 00:33:22.000 can all the university can 00:33:22.000 --> 00:33:26.000 transform the student life so 00:33:28.000 --> 00:33:30.000 right we can do it we can 00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:32.000 we can show the strength see what 00:33:32.000 --> 00:33:33.000 I mean small campus one on 00:33:33.000 --> 00:33:35.000 one small classrooms faculty 00:33:35.000 --> 00:33:38.000 student ratio small issues 00:33:38.000 --> 00:33:40.000 we we can we can talk about 00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:42.000 our strength the monitor data 00:33:42.000 --> 00:33:44.000 analysis evaluate the system 00:33:44.000 --> 00:33:47.000 based on the data on facts on 00:33:49.000 --> 00:33:51.000 on the -- campus community on 00:33:51.000 --> 00:33:53.000 the outcomes and benchmarks you 00:33:53.000 --> 00:33:54.000 need to set some benchmarks we need 00:33:54.000 --> 00:33:55.000 to take some examples across 00:33:55.000 --> 00:33:56.000 country that had close to 00:33:56.000 --> 00:33:58.000 two thousand hired in 00:33:58.000 --> 00:33:59.000 higher education institution across country 00:33:59.000 --> 00:33:62.000 we can pick maybe ten of them 00:34:02.000 --> 00:34:03.000 which is comparable to 00:34:03.000 --> 00:34:06.000 to us and try to see what 00:34:06.000 --> 00:34:07.000 what we can learn from them 00:34:07.000 --> 00:34:08.000 and what they're all doing and 00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:10.000 how can we do better than them 00:34:10.000 --> 00:34:12.000 so that's about the graduate 00:34:12.000 --> 00:34:14.000 education okay so I'm going to 00:34:14.000 --> 00:34:17.000 switch the gear to the research 00:34:17.000 --> 00:34:18.000 and I do understand that the 00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:21.000 research part is the office of 00:34:21.000 --> 00:34:23.000 sponsored program and TRI 00:34:23.000 --> 00:34:26.000 TRI center here on campus okay 00:34:29.000 --> 00:34:30.000 is going to talk about 00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:31.000 a general research 00:34:31.000 --> 00:34:34.000 challenge for a school like 00:34:34.000 --> 00:34:36.000 Western as you know the first 00:34:36.000 --> 00:34:37.000 thing if you go and talk 00:34:37.000 --> 00:34:39.000 to me and I'm sitting in my 00:34:39.000 --> 00:34:40.000 chemistry office Hey what do 00:34:40.000 --> 00:34:42.000 you need for doing research 00:34:42.000 --> 00:34:45.000 oh I need resources scarcity 00:34:45.000 --> 00:34:47.000 of the resources I need a 00:34:47.000 --> 00:34:48.000 instrument I need a starter 00:34:48.000 --> 00:34:51.000 package I need infrastructure 00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:52.000 lab space you see what I mean 00:34:54.000 --> 00:34:56.000 glassware and so on I could 00:34:56.000 --> 00:34:58.000 go on and on an increasing 00:34:58.000 --> 00:34:63.000 cost ninety plus percent of the 00:35:03.000 --> 00:35:05.000 federal funding agencies grand 00:35:05.000 --> 00:35:07.000 budget is never increased the last 00:35:07.000 --> 00:35:10.000 ten years ninety percent 00:35:10.000 --> 00:35:13.000 DOE NSF NIH they're increasing 00:35:13.000 --> 00:35:15.000 doing only inflation hikes like 00:35:15.000 --> 00:35:17.000 two to three percent there are no real 00:35:17.000 --> 00:35:20.000 budget reallocation only 00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:21.000 DOE budget is going 00:35:21.000 --> 00:35:22.000 on you know going up you 00:35:22.000 --> 00:35:23.000 know that he said maybe what 00:35:23.000 --> 00:35:25.000 he means a defense budget is 00:35:25.000 --> 00:35:27.000 going on not on NIH 00:35:27.000 --> 00:35:30.000 NSF DYE -- DOE 00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:31.000 is getting a big cut in 00:35:31.000 --> 00:35:33.000 the last five years -- the 00:35:33.000 --> 00:35:35.000 DOE means Department of Energy 00:35:35.000 --> 00:35:37.000 department of education flat 00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:39.000 NSF flat NIH flat 00:35:39.000 --> 00:35:41.000 everything's flat another 00:35:41.000 --> 00:35:43.000 problem is the complexity we 00:35:43.000 --> 00:35:44.000 have more disciplines what 00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:46.000 to concentrate on are we 00:35:46.000 --> 00:35:47.000 going to concentrate across 00:35:47.000 --> 00:35:48.000 university are we going to 00:35:48.000 --> 00:35:50.000 select -- certain 00:35:50.000 --> 00:35:51.000 disciplines and focus on our 00:35:51.000 --> 00:35:52.000 resources on those kind of 00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:55.000 opportunities that's when 00:35:55.000 --> 00:35:56.000 we need to again have some 00:35:56.000 --> 00:35:59.000 honest conversation because 00:35:59.000 --> 00:35:60.000 a school like us can create a 00:36:00.000 --> 00:36:02.000 research institute where for 00:36:02.000 --> 00:36:04.000 example then I started my lab 00:36:04.000 --> 00:36:06.000 in my first tenure track 00:36:06.000 --> 00:36:08.000 job for one year first year 00:36:08.000 --> 00:36:09.000 I never had anything in my 00:36:09.000 --> 00:36:13.000 lab I just bought a few pipettes 00:36:13.000 --> 00:36:15.000 the reason is we had a center 00:36:15.000 --> 00:36:18.000 call to send us institute 00:36:19.000 --> 00:36:22.000 advancement medial institute it's a 00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:24.000 university centralized labs 00:36:24.000 --> 00:36:25.000 and be that I have all the 00:36:25.000 --> 00:36:27.000 facilities so I don't have to 00:36:27.000 --> 00:36:29.000 repeat and reproduce and get 00:36:29.000 --> 00:36:30.000 the resources to buy the same 00:36:30.000 --> 00:36:31.000 instrument which is located in 00:36:31.000 --> 00:36:33.000 one building one place I can 00:36:33.000 --> 00:36:34.000 take my students over to 00:36:34.000 --> 00:36:36.000 same center in that institute 00:36:36.000 --> 00:36:38.000 within the campus a neutralized 00:36:38.000 --> 00:36:39.000 facility which is open for 00:36:39.000 --> 00:36:41.000 all the faculty members any faculty 00:36:41.000 --> 00:36:42.000 member who want to take advantage 00:36:42.000 --> 00:36:45.000 of it so there are novel ways to 00:36:47.000 --> 00:36:50.000 and sort of -- for example if I 00:36:50.000 --> 00:36:53.000 buy a certain instrument the 00:36:53.000 --> 00:36:55.000 same instrument another three 00:36:55.000 --> 00:36:57.000 other faculty will buy it down the 00:36:57.000 --> 00:36:59.000 road we don't have to duplicate it 00:36:59.000 --> 00:36:60.000 another complexity is 00:37:00.000 --> 00:37:02.000 compliance which can be IRB 00:37:02.000 --> 00:37:04.000 Institutional Review Board 00:37:05.000 --> 00:37:06.000 human IACUC which deals 00:37:06.000 --> 00:37:08.000 with animal welfare policies 00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:10.000 and regulations are getting 00:37:10.000 --> 00:37:12.000 tougher and tougher so we have 00:37:12.000 --> 00:37:14.000 to learn every day we need to 00:37:14.000 --> 00:37:17.000 have a proper insight because 00:37:17.000 --> 00:37:18.000 until we get into our audit 00:37:18.000 --> 00:37:20.000 process from -- any department 00:37:20.000 --> 00:37:22.000 of Health and Human Services 00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:24.000 at any other federal agency 00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:26.000 we are good but once we get into 00:37:26.000 --> 00:37:27.000 the bad side of that's it we 00:37:27.000 --> 00:37:29.000 have lost it so it's better to 00:37:29.000 --> 00:37:31.000 be more proactive at -- with 00:37:31.000 --> 00:37:33.000 IRB and IACUC policies and 00:37:33.000 --> 00:37:36.000 so on so what can we do the 00:37:36.000 --> 00:37:37.000 challenges are the other side 00:37:37.000 --> 00:37:39.000 of the totally complexity here is the 00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:41.000 strategy decision making on 00:37:41.000 --> 00:37:44.000 the competitive nature when 00:37:44.000 --> 00:37:46.000 facing resources because we 00:37:46.000 --> 00:37:47.000 all compete for the same pie 00:37:47.000 --> 00:37:49.000 right the pie is not getting 00:37:49.000 --> 00:37:50.000 bigger at all it's like maybe 00:37:50.000 --> 00:37:51.000 shrinking smaller and smaller 00:37:51.000 --> 00:37:53.000 every year -- but I still 00:37:53.000 --> 00:37:54.000 need -- we still need the same 00:37:54.000 --> 00:37:57.000 share of the pie collaboration 00:37:57.000 --> 00:37:58.000 in national and international 00:37:58.000 --> 00:37:60.000 innovation -- so basically 00:38:00.000 --> 00:38:02.000 encourage our faculty members 00:38:02.000 --> 00:38:05.000 to go beyond working in our 00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:07.000 own laps create international 00:38:07.000 --> 00:38:08.000 collaboration visit the lab see 00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:10.000 what I mean like I encourage 00:38:10.000 --> 00:38:14.000 them to do sabbaticals and 00:38:14.000 --> 00:38:15.000 you might ask where is the 00:38:15.000 --> 00:38:16.000 money for sabbatical where 00:38:16.000 --> 00:38:17.000 can you find the money for 00:38:17.000 --> 00:38:19.000 sabbatical there are foundation 00:38:19.000 --> 00:38:20.000 that have close to two hundred 00:38:20.000 --> 00:38:22.000 funding opportunities available 00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:24.000 depends on the discipline I 00:38:24.000 --> 00:38:25.000 created this database maybe 00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:27.000 a couple of years ago -- by 00:38:27.000 --> 00:38:31.000 college sabbatical finding list 00:38:31.000 --> 00:38:32.000 where can you find money for 00:38:32.000 --> 00:38:35.000 doing a sabbatical -- that'll 00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:37.000 create -- a new -- give 00:38:37.000 --> 00:38:39.000 that'll give a faculty members 00:38:39.000 --> 00:38:41.000 retool themself come up with 00:38:41.000 --> 00:38:43.000 new research ideas that will 00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:44.000 give them new collaborations 00:38:44.000 --> 00:38:46.000 nationally internationally 00:38:46.000 --> 00:38:48.000 you know so open up the door for 00:38:48.000 --> 00:38:49.000 them bringing those kind 00:38:49.000 --> 00:38:51.000 of opportunities and 00:38:51.000 --> 00:38:54.000 transdisciplinary research communities 00:38:54.000 --> 00:38:55.000 you might have heard 00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:57.000 interdisciplinary intradisciplinary 00:38:57.000 --> 00:38:59.000 right multi disciplinary is the last 00:38:59.000 --> 00:38:61.000 one the transdisciplinary 00:39:01.000 --> 00:39:03.000 is a new term which I came up with 00:39:03.000 --> 00:39:05.000 maybe reading some stuff forty 00:39:05.000 --> 00:39:07.000 years ago in a magazine this 00:39:07.000 --> 00:39:08.000 came from a University of 00:39:08.000 --> 00:39:11.000 Southern Florida a 00:39:11.000 --> 00:39:13.000 dance professor her 00:39:13.000 --> 00:39:16.000 husband was paralyzed below 00:39:16.000 --> 00:39:18.000 the hips so he's -- he got 00:39:18.000 --> 00:39:21.000 stuck in the wheelchair and so 00:39:21.000 --> 00:39:23.000 he can move the top part but he 00:39:23.000 --> 00:39:25.000 cannot move the bottom part 00:39:25.000 --> 00:39:27.000 and she's a belly dance faculty 00:39:27.000 --> 00:39:29.000 member and one day she was 00:39:29.000 --> 00:39:32.000 doing a practice in a 00:39:32.000 --> 00:39:35.000 studio on campus she realized 00:39:35.000 --> 00:39:39.000 her lower body's stable 00:39:39.000 --> 00:39:42.000 only her upper body was spinning 00:39:42.000 --> 00:39:44.000 she was practicing for the last 00:39:44.000 --> 00:39:45.000 fifteen twenty years 00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:46.000 and she didn't realize that she 00:39:46.000 --> 00:39:48.000 for the fraction of a second 00:39:48.000 --> 00:39:50.000 she thought this is like my 00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:51.000 husband who was sitting in a 00:39:51.000 --> 00:39:53.000 wheelchair he his upper body's mobile 00:39:53.000 --> 00:39:54.000 his lower body's not working 00:39:54.000 --> 00:39:57.000 same here I'm just my leg is same but 00:39:57.000 --> 00:39:60.000 I'm spinning like in one one 00:40:00.000 --> 00:40:02.000 leg one like with my two on the 00:40:02.000 --> 00:40:06.000 bottom so she got that concept 00:40:06.000 --> 00:40:08.000 and -- took to a mechanical 00:40:08.000 --> 00:40:10.000 engineering faculty member and 00:40:10.000 --> 00:40:13.000 said can we create a wheelchair 00:40:13.000 --> 00:40:17.000 which can move 360 00:40:17.000 --> 00:40:19.000 see the typical wheelchair move 00:40:19.000 --> 00:40:20.000 front and back right it won't 00:40:20.000 --> 00:40:24.000 spin like this -- and 00:40:24.000 --> 00:40:26.000 then they come collaborate with 00:40:26.000 --> 00:40:27.000 the computer science faculty 00:40:27.000 --> 00:40:30.000 to make it automated like 00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:33.000 a small touch screen along 00:40:33.000 --> 00:40:36.000 with the automation so think 00:40:36.000 --> 00:40:37.000 about it dance faculty member 00:40:37.000 --> 00:40:39.000 engineering guy a computer 00:40:39.000 --> 00:40:40.000 science faculty members got 00:40:40.000 --> 00:40:41.000 together and have a patent 00:40:41.000 --> 00:40:44.000 on this omni-chair 00:40:44.000 --> 00:40:45.000 they call it omni-chair 00:40:45.000 --> 00:40:50.000 omni-wheelchair so that's a multi 00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:51.000 transdisciplinary so we can 00:40:51.000 --> 00:40:54.000 think beyond just a biology 00:40:54.000 --> 00:40:55.000 faculty member working with 00:40:55.000 --> 00:40:57.000 chemistry faculty member when 00:40:57.000 --> 00:40:59.000 we talk about research grants 00:40:59.000 --> 00:40:60.000 I'm gonna talk we'll know 00:41:00.000 --> 00:41:01.000 there is -- opportunities 00:41:01.000 --> 00:41:03.000 for research we talk about 00:41:03.000 --> 00:41:04.000 a faculty member 00:41:04.000 --> 00:41:06.000 write research proposals get 00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:08.000 the money have a lab have a bunch 00:41:08.000 --> 00:41:10.000 of students doing something 00:41:10.000 --> 00:41:12.000 right I'm -- since I'm a 00:41:12.000 --> 00:41:14.000 biochemist I'm talking about 00:41:14.000 --> 00:41:16.000 mixing something in a test tube 00:41:16.000 --> 00:41:17.000 that's what we think right 00:41:17.000 --> 00:41:20.000 all the time like -- we don't 00:41:20.000 --> 00:41:21.000 we can we can think beyond 00:41:21.000 --> 00:41:24.000 that school like Western 00:41:24.000 --> 00:41:25.000 we're undergraduate we sell 00:41:25.000 --> 00:41:27.000 mostly undergraduate population 00:41:27.000 --> 00:41:28.000 there are plenty of funding 00:41:28.000 --> 00:41:32.000 opportunity and student success 00:41:34.000 --> 00:41:38.000 agencies or we can expand what 00:41:38.000 --> 00:41:41.000 we do with the your TRI programs 00:41:41.000 --> 00:41:43.000 which I'm learning 00:41:43.000 --> 00:41:44.000 in last week or so and today I 00:41:44.000 --> 00:41:47.000 learned a lot -- so there's 00:41:47.000 --> 00:41:49.000 plenty of opportunities and 00:41:49.000 --> 00:41:51.000 build communities to increase 00:41:51.000 --> 00:41:53.000 the incentive and decrease the 00:41:53.000 --> 00:41:55.000 barriers for example office 00:41:55.000 --> 00:41:56.000 of sponsor program is already 00:41:56.000 --> 00:41:57.000 established that is a pre award person 00:41:57.000 --> 00:41:59.000 post award person there is a 00:41:59.000 --> 00:41:60.000 a budget person now 00:42:00.000 --> 00:42:01.000 our job is to educate our 00:42:01.000 --> 00:42:03.000 campus community what those 00:42:03.000 --> 00:42:05.000 three people will be doing 00:42:05.000 --> 00:42:07.000 and how a faculty member can 00:42:07.000 --> 00:42:10.000 take advantage of them that's 00:42:10.000 --> 00:42:11.000 what I learned when I went 00:42:11.000 --> 00:42:13.000 when my enthusiasm grew and 00:42:13.000 --> 00:42:14.000 up when I started writing my 00:42:14.000 --> 00:42:16.000 grant answers and the process 00:42:16.000 --> 00:42:17.000 was explained to me in an 00:42:17.000 --> 00:42:21.000 analytical way simple analytical way 00:42:21.000 --> 00:42:23.000 someone sat with me and said 00:42:23.000 --> 00:42:25.000 Raj you need ten pieces these 00:42:25.000 --> 00:42:27.000 are the 10 pieces you need to 00:42:27.000 --> 00:42:28.000 first work on this fifteen page 00:42:28.000 --> 00:42:30.000 narrative within that fifteen 00:42:30.000 --> 00:42:31.000 page narrative there needs 00:42:31.000 --> 00:42:33.000 to be abstract introduction 00:42:33.000 --> 00:42:36.000 specific names procedure 00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:38.000 outcomes and justification 00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:41.000 so someone break down 00:42:41.000 --> 00:42:42.000 someone read the read the IRB which is 00:42:44.000 --> 00:42:47.000 time have patients to read I 00:42:47.000 --> 00:42:50.000 time to read okay -- I want 00:42:50.000 --> 00:42:51.000 someone to break it down for 00:42:51.000 --> 00:42:53.000 me so I someone broke it down 00:42:53.000 --> 00:42:54.000 showed me all the required 00:42:54.000 --> 00:42:56.000 pieces oh yeah oh this is 00:42:56.000 --> 00:42:59.000 simple I can do it -- so make 00:42:59.000 --> 00:42:62.000 the process easier dependent 00:43:02.000 --> 00:43:04.000 on scalable agile research and 00:43:04.000 --> 00:43:07.000 administrative support see what 00:43:07.000 --> 00:43:08.000 I mean to reduce the burden 00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:10.000 on the faculty members reduce the 00:43:12.000 --> 00:43:13.000 who want to write a grant it can 00:43:13.000 --> 00:43:14.000 be a thousand dollar grant 00:43:14.000 --> 00:43:16.000 it can be a ten million dollar 00:43:16.000 --> 00:43:18.000 grant we should step out and 00:43:18.000 --> 00:43:20.000 help them on the potential 00:43:20.000 --> 00:43:22.000 for innovation we 00:43:22.000 --> 00:43:24.000 have a reasonably strong 00:43:24.000 --> 00:43:26.000 leadership and administrative 00:43:26.000 --> 00:43:28.000 program and how can we learn 00:43:28.000 --> 00:43:31.000 from the innovation part so 00:43:31.000 --> 00:43:32.000 when we talk about a scholar 00:43:32.000 --> 00:43:34.000 research or grants we talk 00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:36.000 all these STEM areas right 00:43:36.000 --> 00:43:38.000 like chemistry biology 00:43:38.000 --> 00:43:40.000 we assume that there is not much 00:43:40.000 --> 00:43:43.000 funding on humanities you know 00:43:43.000 --> 00:43:44.000 there is not much funding on 00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:47.000 behavioral sciences it's very 00:43:47.000 --> 00:43:49.000 typical in everywhere across 00:43:49.000 --> 00:43:50.000 the country see what I mean 00:43:50.000 --> 00:43:51.000 like most of the funding come 00:43:51.000 --> 00:43:54.000 from STEM science engineering 00:43:54.000 --> 00:43:55.000 see what I mean mathematics 00:43:55.000 --> 00:43:57.000 and so on but we need to break 00:43:57.000 --> 00:43:58.000 the barrier we need to show 00:43:58.000 --> 00:43:60.000 them every discipline has 00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:02.000 opportunities I was telling 00:44:02.000 --> 00:44:04.000 some -- a group this morning 00:44:04.000 --> 00:44:05.000 our library team 00:44:05.000 --> 00:44:07.000 is finding -- 00:44:07.000 --> 00:44:08.000 writing for foundation money to 00:44:08.000 --> 00:44:10.000 support your homeless kids 00:44:10.000 --> 00:44:12.000 sleeping in the library it's very 00:44:12.000 --> 00:44:14.000 unfortunate to tell you have 00:44:14.000 --> 00:44:16.000 a few homeless kids sleeping in 00:44:16.000 --> 00:44:17.000 the library but we need to 00:44:17.000 --> 00:44:18.000 find resources to support 00:44:18.000 --> 00:44:19.000 those homeless kids so 00:44:19.000 --> 00:44:20.000 library faculties are writing 00:44:20.000 --> 00:44:21.000 this small five thousand dollar 00:44:21.000 --> 00:44:24.000 grant to get supplies like 00:44:24.000 --> 00:44:26.000 sanitary supplies and books and 00:44:26.000 --> 00:44:28.000 and so on to support those guys 00:44:28.000 --> 00:44:30.000 so we need to break the barrier 00:44:30.000 --> 00:44:34.000 that everyone across campus can 00:44:34.000 --> 00:44:35.000 be supported in respect of the 00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:38.000 discipline to do research 00:44:38.000 --> 00:44:40.000 our grants activity funding 00:44:40.000 --> 00:44:42.000 databases are very important 00:44:42.000 --> 00:44:43.000 I think we already are doing a great 00:44:43.000 --> 00:44:46.000 job grant writing workshop 00:44:46.000 --> 00:44:49.000 see what I mean it can be a hundreds 00:44:49.000 --> 00:44:51.000 hundred people or it can be one 00:44:51.000 --> 00:44:52.000 faculty member it doesn't 00:44:52.000 --> 00:44:53.000 matter if even one faculty 00:44:53.000 --> 00:44:54.000 member showed interest in 00:44:54.000 --> 00:44:57.000 writing one certain grant for 00:44:57.000 --> 00:44:58.000 a school like this we have that 00:44:58.000 --> 00:44:60.000 one on one relationship see 00:45:00.000 --> 00:45:01.000 what I mean we should be able 00:45:01.000 --> 00:45:02.000 to step up and help the faculty 00:45:02.000 --> 00:45:05.000 member to write that grant 00:45:05.000 --> 00:45:06.000 grant preparation checklist that's 00:45:06.000 --> 00:45:08.000 what I said I don't want to read 00:45:09.000 --> 00:45:12.000 from DOE I just want 00:45:12.000 --> 00:45:13.000 someone to break it down for 00:45:13.000 --> 00:45:15.000 me so break it down and make 00:45:15.000 --> 00:45:18.000 a -- proposal right that life 00:45:18.000 --> 00:45:19.000 a little easier let them 00:45:19.000 --> 00:45:21.000 concentrate on writing instead 00:45:21.000 --> 00:45:22.000 of reading the hundred fifty 00:45:22.000 --> 00:45:23.000 page documents and looking to 00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:26.000 the policies and procedures 00:45:26.000 --> 00:45:27.000 and stress them out with 00:45:27.000 --> 00:45:28.000 that they are under compliance 00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:31.000 or not until the day you click 00:45:31.000 --> 00:45:33.000 the submit button and to show where 00:45:33.000 --> 00:45:34.000 the bottom line is we 00:45:34.000 --> 00:45:36.000 can help them we can help on 00:45:36.000 --> 00:45:37.000 and then prepare the budget for 00:45:37.000 --> 00:45:38.000 them because they don't know 00:45:38.000 --> 00:45:40.000 what does it mean by indebted 00:45:40.000 --> 00:45:41.000 I remember fifteen years ago 00:45:41.000 --> 00:45:43.000 and someone sitting indebted 00:45:43.000 --> 00:45:44.000 what is that indebted where do I 00:45:44.000 --> 00:45:46.000 pay indebted for you I don't 00:45:46.000 --> 00:45:47.000 even know the definition of 00:45:47.000 --> 00:45:48.000 indebted fifteen sixteen years 00:45:48.000 --> 00:45:51.000 ago just give to give you an example 00:45:51.000 --> 00:45:52.000 see what I mean so explaining 00:45:52.000 --> 00:45:53.000 those kind of concept what 00:45:53.000 --> 00:45:56.000 is mean by indebted what is 00:45:56.000 --> 00:45:58.000 mean by fringe benefit who's 00:45:58.000 --> 00:45:61.000 determining it who's giving the 00:46:01.000 --> 00:46:03.000 numbers for us explain this to 00:46:03.000 --> 00:46:05.000 our faculty members see what I 00:46:05.000 --> 00:46:06.000 mean and tell them this is all 00:46:09.000 --> 00:46:10.000 what I do is I will ask the faculty 00:46:10.000 --> 00:46:11.000 hey could you please create 00:46:11.000 --> 00:46:13.000 just create a laundry 00:46:13.000 --> 00:46:15.000 list and give it to me I had 00:46:15.000 --> 00:46:18.000 I receive the sticky notes and all 00:46:18.000 --> 00:46:20.000 one summer salary to graduate 00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:21.000 student one undergraduate 00:46:21.000 --> 00:46:22.000 student ten thousand supply 00:46:22.000 --> 00:46:25.000 ten thousand travel that's it 00:46:25.000 --> 00:46:27.000 it's in my desk with the faculty 00:46:27.000 --> 00:46:29.000 name the funding opportunity 00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:31.000 so see what I mean that's 00:46:31.000 --> 00:46:32.000 what that's who we are like as a 00:46:32.000 --> 00:46:33.000 faculty member the -- we 00:46:33.000 --> 00:46:35.000 want to help them to show 00:46:35.000 --> 00:46:36.000 that once I put it in my 00:46:36.000 --> 00:46:38.000 interactive excel where they 00:46:38.000 --> 00:46:39.000 can play around you what I 00:46:39.000 --> 00:46:40.000 mean so that one month they can 00:46:40.000 --> 00:46:43.000 put one point five month 00:46:43.000 --> 00:46:44.000 automatically it will -- because I have 00:46:44.000 --> 00:46:45.000 access to the salary database 00:46:45.000 --> 00:46:47.000 I can extract a salary and do 00:46:47.000 --> 00:46:49.000 the math and then tell them hey 00:46:49.000 --> 00:46:51.000 there is a temporary faculty 00:46:51.000 --> 00:46:52.000 and staff members will have 00:46:52.000 --> 00:46:54.000 a eight percent fringe full 00:46:54.000 --> 00:46:55.000 time staff will have a thirty nine 00:46:55.000 --> 00:46:57.000 percent fringe full time 00:46:57.000 --> 00:46:60.000 faculty faculties will have 33 percent fringe 00:47:00.000 --> 00:47:01.000 our in data grade is forty 00:47:01.000 --> 00:47:03.000 three percent just so I don't 00:47:03.000 --> 00:47:04.000 have to explain all this 00:47:04.000 --> 00:47:06.000 there's and Excel and I tell them 00:47:06.000 --> 00:47:07.000 this is what I'm doing with the 00:47:07.000 --> 00:47:09.000 Excel sheet so we have to 00:47:09.000 --> 00:47:11.000 redefine the Office of Sponsored 00:47:11.000 --> 00:47:12.000 Program I call the office of 00:47:12.000 --> 00:47:14.000 research activate the research 00:47:14.000 --> 00:47:16.000 culture on campus research means 00:47:16.000 --> 00:47:17.000 grants and student engagement 00:47:17.000 --> 00:47:19.000 student success and and so 00:47:19.000 --> 00:47:21.000 on so how can we do this 00:47:21.000 --> 00:47:23.000 it starts from the faculty 00:47:23.000 --> 00:47:25.000 members we hire and so my job 00:47:25.000 --> 00:47:26.000 will be working in the provost 00:47:26.000 --> 00:47:28.000 and the deans and the chairs and 00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:30.000 other other campus community 00:47:30.000 --> 00:47:32.000 members to redefine what type 00:47:32.000 --> 00:47:33.000 of faculty member we need and 00:47:33.000 --> 00:47:34.000 set the expectations very 00:47:34.000 --> 00:47:37.000 clearly so that we move -- to 00:47:37.000 --> 00:47:39.000 achieve the scores like where 00:47:39.000 --> 00:47:42.000 Western want to move and build 00:47:42.000 --> 00:47:44.000 a coalition of community on 00:47:44.000 --> 00:47:46.000 there at the end of the day it's 00:47:46.000 --> 00:47:48.000 up to the faculty member to 00:47:48.000 --> 00:47:49.000 do -- maybe the faculty member 00:47:49.000 --> 00:47:51.000 will say no I'm not interested 00:47:51.000 --> 00:47:53.000 in -- the usual 00:47:53.000 --> 00:47:55.000 self research grant I want to 00:47:55.000 --> 00:47:57.000 write a small grant to support 00:47:57.000 --> 00:47:60.000 the students to increase the 00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:01.000 graduation rate or retention 00:48:01.000 --> 00:48:03.000 rate let's find something for 00:48:03.000 --> 00:48:05.000 that person we don't have to 00:48:05.000 --> 00:48:07.000 say no to that person you can 00:48:07.000 --> 00:48:09.000 find something else it might 00:48:09.000 --> 00:48:12.000 be just less money fine engage 00:48:12.000 --> 00:48:15.000 them entertain them keep them 00:48:15.000 --> 00:48:17.000 in contact with this and build 00:48:17.000 --> 00:48:20.000 networks and partnerships and 00:48:20.000 --> 00:48:21.000 on campus ask for this off 00:48:21.000 --> 00:48:24.000 campus I have a partnership 00:48:24.000 --> 00:48:25.000 with a company in Owensboro 00:48:25.000 --> 00:48:28.000 Kentucky -- we remembered 00:48:28.000 --> 00:48:29.000 five years ago there was a 00:48:29.000 --> 00:48:31.000 there was Ebola outbreak 00:48:31.000 --> 00:48:33.000 in Africa and the company 00:48:33.000 --> 00:48:34.000 in Owensboro is the one which 00:48:34.000 --> 00:48:38.000 made the antibody cocktail 00:48:38.000 --> 00:48:40.000 the company was making antibody 00:48:40.000 --> 00:48:42.000 in proteins from the tobacco 00:48:42.000 --> 00:48:44.000 plant so Kentucky is very 00:48:44.000 --> 00:48:45.000 Kentucky and Tennessee is very famous 00:48:45.000 --> 00:48:47.000 for trowing tobaccos what they 00:48:47.000 --> 00:48:50.000 do is they cloned the virus 00:48:50.000 --> 00:48:51.000 they infect the plant with 00:48:51.000 --> 00:48:53.000 the virus and the plant grows 00:48:53.000 --> 00:48:55.000 the virus will multiply and 00:48:55.000 --> 00:48:57.000 then when the plants grew to 00:48:57.000 --> 00:48:58.000 maturity they get the plant 00:48:58.000 --> 00:48:60.000 and get the juice out of the 00:49:00.000 --> 00:49:01.000 plant just literally a juice out of 00:49:01.000 --> 00:49:03.000 the plant and filter all the 00:49:03.000 --> 00:49:05.000 waste I'm just simplifying the 00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:08.000 five steps it's very complex 00:49:08.000 --> 00:49:11.000 very very complex but they 00:49:11.000 --> 00:49:13.000 basically remove all the waste 00:49:13.000 --> 00:49:14.000 and then get the antibody out 00:49:14.000 --> 00:49:18.000 the protein does it make sense so -- 00:49:18.000 --> 00:49:19.000 that's an example of how we 00:49:19.000 --> 00:49:21.000 can communicate with the local 00:49:21.000 --> 00:49:22.000 companies and industries and 00:49:22.000 --> 00:49:23.000 you see what I mean like there 00:49:23.000 --> 00:49:25.000 we can send our students to 00:49:25.000 --> 00:49:28.000 gain the hands on experience 00:49:28.000 --> 00:49:30.000 an integrated program cross 00:49:30.000 --> 00:49:33.000 disciplinary thinkers at the end 00:49:33.000 --> 00:49:35.000 of the day the campus community 00:49:35.000 --> 00:49:37.000 is the key faculty staff and 00:49:37.000 --> 00:49:39.000 students are the key what do 00:49:39.000 --> 00:49:40.000 they need what are they 00:49:40.000 --> 00:49:43.000 asking from us I'll be dealing 00:49:43.000 --> 00:49:45.000 with those kind of things for them 00:49:45.000 --> 00:49:48.000 you have to be very clear where 00:49:48.000 --> 00:49:49.000 do we want to be 00:49:49.000 --> 00:49:52.000 research because having a grant program 00:49:52.000 --> 00:49:53.000 is different than having a research 00:49:53.000 --> 00:49:54.000 there are two different 00:49:54.000 --> 00:49:55.000 things I want to differentiate 00:49:55.000 --> 00:49:57.000 that because this is office of 00:49:57.000 --> 00:49:58.000 dean of graduate studies 00:49:58.000 --> 00:49:60.000 research right the research means 00:50:00.000 --> 00:50:02.000 not just a grant program 00:50:02.000 --> 00:50:03.000 research means it's way beyond 00:50:03.000 --> 00:50:06.000 that hill way beyond it's 00:50:06.000 --> 00:50:08.000 not just a grant opportunity 00:50:08.000 --> 00:50:09.000 it's not like finding a grant 00:50:09.000 --> 00:50:11.000 and bring it in and write it 00:50:11.000 --> 00:50:14.000 it's more than that strong 00:50:14.000 --> 00:50:16.000 marketing and recruiting source 00:50:16.000 --> 00:50:18.000 opportunities will get more 00:50:18.000 --> 00:50:20.000 students and it help to create 00:50:20.000 --> 00:50:22.000 understand the developing need 00:50:22.000 --> 00:50:23.000 based curriculum because there 00:50:23.000 --> 00:50:24.000 may be some program which we 00:50:24.000 --> 00:50:25.000 have to offered for five years and 00:50:25.000 --> 00:50:27.000 then that's it we're done on 00:50:27.000 --> 00:50:29.000 the promote support -- our 00:50:29.000 --> 00:50:31.000 constituents our faculty members 00:50:31.000 --> 00:50:34.000 and collaborate so basically 00:50:34.000 --> 00:50:37.000 just covered two things -- the 00:50:37.000 --> 00:50:40.000 challenges both in the research 00:50:40.000 --> 00:50:43.000 education and then the opportunities 00:50:43.000 --> 00:50:45.000 we have more both in research 00:50:45.000 --> 00:50:47.000 and graduate education from 00:50:47.000 --> 00:50:48.000 me as an administrator you 00:50:48.000 --> 00:50:50.000 can expect me to have someone 00:50:50.000 --> 00:50:52.000 who can proactively engage 00:50:52.000 --> 00:50:54.000 the campus who interfered 00:50:54.000 --> 00:50:55.000 in a professional setting 00:50:55.000 --> 00:50:56.000 with a positive attitude 00:50:56.000 --> 00:50:57.000 with integrity and honesty 00:50:57.000 --> 00:50:60.000 and transparency I use this 00:51:00.000 --> 00:51:02.000 things in the past that's the 00:51:02.000 --> 00:51:04.000 reason couple of my references 00:51:04.000 --> 00:51:05.000 said previous Faculty Senate 00:51:05.000 --> 00:51:07.000 president which is the faculty 00:51:07.000 --> 00:51:08.000 union presidents version of Western 00:51:08.000 --> 00:51:10.000 and one of the Faculty 00:51:10.000 --> 00:51:11.000 Senate president is now serving 00:51:11.000 --> 00:51:12.000 as a Tennessee board of 00:51:12.000 --> 00:51:14.000 like a board of region 00:51:14.000 --> 00:51:16.000 as a faculty representative there 00:51:16.000 --> 00:51:18.000 they are like thirty year experience 00:51:18.000 --> 00:51:19.000 faculty member but 00:51:19.000 --> 00:51:22.000 I'm still -- I have a very 00:51:22.000 --> 00:51:23.000 excellent professional 00:51:23.000 --> 00:51:26.000 relationship because of I have some 00:51:26.000 --> 00:51:28.000 integrity and -- 00:51:28.000 --> 00:51:30.000 honesty in my career and so 00:51:30.000 --> 00:51:32.000 they respect me for who I am 00:51:32.000 --> 00:51:35.000 always when I talk to anyone 00:51:35.000 --> 00:51:36.000 it can be graduate studies office 00:51:36.000 --> 00:51:38.000 it can be to research office 00:51:38.000 --> 00:51:40.000 the bottom line is the 00:51:40.000 --> 00:51:43.000 facts and hear the opinion how 00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:45.000 can we make an impact and 00:51:45.000 --> 00:51:46.000 how can we move forward with 00:51:46.000 --> 00:51:48.000 the change by keeping the 00:51:48.000 --> 00:51:50.000 students first at the end of 00:51:50.000 --> 00:51:51.000 the day we are here for the 00:51:51.000 --> 00:51:53.000 students -- so if you keep 00:51:53.000 --> 00:51:55.000 that in mind I still like to 00:51:55.000 --> 00:51:56.000 be in a classroom I still 00:51:56.000 --> 00:51:58.000 teach -- Tuesdays 00:51:58.000 --> 00:51:59.000 and Thursdays eight to nine 00:51:59.000 --> 00:51:61.000 twenty five -- I still have 00:52:01.000 --> 00:52:02.000 a couple of students doing 00:52:02.000 --> 00:52:05.000 research small projects so 00:52:05.000 --> 00:52:06.000 I still publish I still write 00:52:06.000 --> 00:52:08.000 grants I still keep up with my 00:52:10.000 --> 00:52:12.000 in my chemistry department -- 00:52:12.000 --> 00:52:15.000 so that's where we are and 00:52:15.000 --> 00:52:16.000 thank you for the opportunity 00:52:16.000 --> 00:52:18.000 thanks for your time and I'm 00:52:18.000 --> 00:52:20.000 happy to answer any questions