BLUE PRINT OF THE AITS

1. Proper Roadmap, Student Activity Center (SAC), Gymkhana, Swimming pool, Play
ground
2. Plantation
3. Placement cell, Academic section, Departmental buildings
4. Two very good Guesthouse (like 3 star hotel)
5. Convocation cum auditorium hall capable of containing 2.5 times of all students and
faculties
6. One or two auditorium having capacity for 1/3 rd of the engineering students.
7. Computer center having control over the Internet and intranet for the campus (all the
computers will be in a network)
8. LAN section taking all care for everyday problem to intranet and also internet.
9. Hostels to accommodate all the students
i)
Each hostel having one computer room
ii)
TV room
iii)
Gymkhana
iv)
Dining hall
v)
Space for keeping bikes and cycles
10. Each student will be provided one Email id and some space (like 20Mb) for the
academic purpose.
11. Refreshment and coffee center inside campus.
LIBRARY
1. Addition of books, international transactions, journals and international search
engines like sciencedirect.com
2. Advanced issuing system
3. UV detector at the entrance of the library
4. New systems for searching of books and periodicals
5. Electronics thesis Submission systems online for the final year students who
handle the projects.
ARRANGEMENT IN LIBARARY
1. Book section
2. Journals (Old) section
3. Current journals, periodicals, Newspaper section
4. Issuing section
5. Reference section
DEPARTMENTS
1. Each department should have one computation lab with 1:2 computers to
students ratio having recent softwares and internet connection.
2. Each professor should have one room in his department with one pc.
3. Each department should have one conference room.

ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS DEPARTMENT

1. One computational lab (well furnished with air conditioning) for power
electronics having computers loaded with recent softwares like Pspice, MATLAB,
and SABER
2. One hardware lab

M C E T has joined hands with VISU Consultants Ltd., the world's

leading international educational consultants. During the last 15 years,
it has launched over 50,000 international careers. The proposed
activities of VISU Consultants Ltd., include:

To offer highly professional and reliable career guidance.

To offer counselling and admission facilitating services.
To provide coaching to the students to face the competitive
examinations such as TOEFEL, GRE, GMAT, & CAT.
To help the students to pursue international careers.
To render coaching, counselling and consultancy services to
guide students aspiring to pursue higher education in USA,
Canada, Newzealand, Australia and other countries abroad.

IBM-UniversityProgram
The aim of the IBM University Program is to increase the availability
skills on IBM software technologies through a strategic initiative
between IBM and reputed institutions such as MCET. The IBM University
program enables all colleges to incorporate educational programs on
IBM software technologies to support the main course curriculum,
electives or projects, within the framework of the university syllubus.
Under this program, IBM invests in providing licensed versions of
cutting edge software like DB2 Universal Database, Websphere
Application Server family and WSAD, in addition to faculty training and
facilitation of courseware development.
On completion of this program, students can to take IBM's certification
tests and further enhance their value in the global skill market place.
The university's faculty at the same time gets an oppurtunity to
enhance the academic process through the effectiveuse of modern
computer technology in teaching and research. Under this program,
the facultywould also get an oppurtunity to share their experiences
and implement new ideas by becoming part of a global discussion
forum of academia. With this program, MCET will emerge as a front
runner amongest educational administration bodies in providing highend technology education to students in India.
I B M x I N D I AxS C H O L A R S

JOIN US FOR THE CHALLENGE, CAMARADERIE & THE FUN

The Great Minds Challenge
IBM is organizing a Country-Wide Competition to foster Top Talent.
The idea is to pit the best minds in the country working on cutting
edge technologies from IBM . To promote usage of IBM SW amongst
the IT
decision makers of tomorrow.
(for details see Ibm.pdf )

VLSI Design Center

MoU with VLSI facilitates students to take a course under VLSI
Desgin Center.VLSI Design Center has a total outlay of 15 lakhs.
Courses Offered
Advanced Digital Design
VHDL Synthesis and Simulation
FPGA Architecture

A joint effort of M C E T - Q u E S T are opened the Centre for

Advanced Design And Manufacturing- C A D A M .
This centre has now installed the powerful FEM packages ANSYS and
equipped with 12SGI machines.It has facility to do Engineering
Analysis and So the student can do live projects in this centre.

Prometric is a leading worldwide provider of comprehensive

technology-based testing and assessment services. A complete
technology based testing services to the students, through which they
can undergo online certification exams. M C E T has a tie-up with
Prometric and have installed a Prometric Testing Center within the
campus. Exams are based on Sylvan prometric .

"Prometric testing center offers 30% discount on all Microsoft

xams till Nov 30th" NEW
Contact Counsellor: A.Sasikumar

NIIT
First of its kind in Engineering College level started to enable the
students to keep abreast with latest computer Softwares.
Total outlay Rs. 10 lakhs.
Total number of beneficiaries 425 students.
Courses offered:
eGNIIT, DNIIT, Futurz
C, C++
VB, SQL Server
XML, Swift India etc.,

M C E T has signed a MoU with the supplier M T A B - D E N F O R D

for setting up an advanced training centre for "Flexible
Manufacturing System" and "Robotics" in the college campus.
MCET in tie-up with MTAB - Denford started the Technology Centre to
enable the students to get intensive training on CNC and FMS system
This is the first such arrangement in the country for providing
advanced training to the students while they undergo the UG course.
The centre was formally inaugurated on 28.09.2001 with the presence
of various dignitaries.
INFRASTRUCTURE
CNC Turning & milling Center
Robot 6 Axis
Master CAM Software
Virtual Reality
COURSESOFFERED:
Diploma in Advanced Manufacturing Technology
CNC Turning

1
1
5
5

CNC Milling
Robot Programming
CIM
FMS
Industrial Automation ( PLC & Robotics)

Microsoft
M C E T signed MoU with Microsoft for School and Campus agreement
for 420 computer systems. This gives the privilege for MCET to acquire
latest versions of Microsoft products which in turn assist the students
to remain with the latest developments in the software sector and
remain acquainted with them.

A person's personal and professional success largely depends upon

his/her communication skills. As language is the major tool for
human communication, in order to make the students successful in
all walks of life a, Language Learning center has been established to
improve our students' linguistic capabilities.
In the age of information technology, English has become the
undeclared link language of the globe, English is given the top
priority in LCC.
Opportunities are aplenty for engineers in India and abroad. Hence,
LLC offers them languages like Hindi, French, Japanese and German.
The LLC functions with excellent infrastructure using state-of-the-art
technologies and experienced staff.
English Learning/Developing Websites
www.learnenglish.org.uk
dictionary.cambridge.org
www.cln.org/int_expert.html
www.wordsmyth.net
www.rong-chang.com
www.academicinfo.net
translator.dictionary.com
www.pdictionary.com
www.yourdictionary.com
www.word2word.com
www.englishclub.com

www.eduplace.com
www.teacher-training.net
www.aitech.ac.jp
www.english-teaching.co.uk
www.english-to-go.com
xDept. I/c.
Mr.V.Christopher Ramesh M.A., M.Phil., MISTE.-Lecturer (in English)
xFaculty:
xMrs. ChandraMylsamy MA-Lecturer (in Hindi)
xMrs. Karpagam MA-Lecturer (in English)
xMs. Hema MA (M.Phill)-Lecturer (in English)
xMr. M.Milton Prabhu MA (Trainee - ELT)
xMr. T.E.Krishnan MA (Trainee - ELT)

Accel IT Academy
Announces 10% discount on registering the course
"Integrated Computer Hardware Service and Network Engineering"
before 15th August for the batch timings 7-9 A.M. and 7.30-9.30
P.M.

NIIT
Announces Bhavishya Jyoti Scholarship

Oracle Certified Professionals

Oracle certification can be availed through CMC @ MCET
more>>

Edith Cowan University(ECU), Perth, Western Australia.

MoU with ECU facilitates students of MCET to obtain a Masters degree - M.S in professional
communication and Interactive Multimedia. The Summer Sequential Programme enables students
to study in ECU during the summer vacation while undergoing their BE, MCA or M.Sc (Software
Engineering).
Currently 30 of our students along with 2 faculty members have undergone the course on
executive certificate in Interactive Multimedia at ECU between the months of May and July 2001.

Course Structure @

ECU

Graduate Certificate (Exit Point)

Graduate Diploma (Exit Point)
Masters in Professional Communication
The courses at ECU is of "Exit Point" schema. According to this
scheme, the students has to pass all his current papers in order to
undergo the next level.

Graduate Certificate @

ECU

Introduction to Digital Technologies

- Basics to Advanced level of Internet Technologies.
Digital Photomedia
- Photo Manipulation and Development Package.
Publishing on the World Wide Web
- Development of Web pages.
Interface and Information Design
- Developing of a good and interactive web pages, CBT and WBT.

Diplamo Certificate @

ECU

Advanced World Wide Web Applications

- Server Side applications and Scripting
Project Management Methodologies
- Concepts Involved in Project Management.
Elective Papers
Three Dimensional Modelling and Animation
- Lightwave, a cool 3D animation Package.
Interactive Multimedia Authoring II
- Director, authoring package for developing games and CBT's.
Multimedia Business Solutions
- Terms involved in Multimedia products marketing.
Industry Project Development
- Project development steps from client request to product
delivery.

Masters @

ECU

Project Preparation
- Terms involved in the selection of the Project Title.
Convergences
- Development of Communication Technology.
Communications Project 1
- Project Development.
Communications Project 2
- Project Development.

Career Opportunities
Web Development,
Interactive Learning,
Entertainment,
E-Commerce.

Cambrian College of Applied Arts & Technology, Sudbury,

Canada
M C E T has joined hands with Cambrian College of Applied
Arts & Technology, Sudbury, Canada for Higher Studies to
B.Sc CT & IT students.

QUEST CAD/CAM/CAE
A Centre equipped with latest CAD/CAM/CAE Software in the competitive world of technical education and act as a
bridge between the engineering education and Industrial houses to have smooth transition. It gives a value
addition to the budding engineering students and exposure with practical training in latest software and leads a
path to decide the area of specialization in their under-graduation.
In the modern world,CAM plays a vital role in the area of manufacturing technology, which helps the Engineer to
compete with high production and accuracy.
Our CAM Lab is having full fledged Flexible Manufacturing Systems , that reduces the man power and exposes our
budding engineers to the latest technologies.

Courses Offered
Pro/Engineer 2001 Professional (4 Months)
Modules
Part Modeling
Surface Modeling
Assembly Modeling
Detailing
CATIA V5 R7 Professional (3 Months)
Modules
Part Modeling
Surface Modeling
Assembly Modeling
Detailing

MasterCAM (2Months)
i. Turning
ii. Milling

M C E T is the first non-Australasian insittution to become the

affiliate member of the Apple University Consortium (AUC).
It facilitates the exchange of students and courseware between
Australian Universities and MCET.This esteemed tie-up allows MCET
to take part in AUC conferences and a privilege to enjoy the AUD
fund.
It has been mentioned in the magazine "The Wheels for the mind" Spring 2000 as "MCET also want to develop some of the soft skills
for the workforce - teamwork, appreciation of design in products,
creativity, and not doing exactly the same as everyone else - which
is unusual. That's why we're proud to be associated with MCET,
because they're really innovators."

First of its kind in INDIA to have a tie-up with Ansys Inc., USA to
enable the students to keep pace with the latest technologies in
Mechanical Ansys with a total outlay of Rs. 5 lakhs.
There are 25 seats availbale for the students to get under ANSYS Authorised Training Center.
Courses Offered
Ansys 6.1 xxxxxxxx - 20 Seats
Ansys Design Space - 25 Seats
Total No of Beneficiaries - 350 students

New batchs at ADS@Dr.MCET in Diploma in Web & Multimedia commences from

Feb'04

S.No

Course

1 Mac OS 9 & X

Benefits
Clear idea about using Mac
systems and their softwares

Duration
(weeks)
1

Digital art, Cartoon design, Logo

design Textile cloth design,
Pamplet designing, Banner
designing

Pamplet designing, Photo

editing, Web designing

Book preparation, News paper

advertisemnt, Banner
advertisement, Magazine

Movie making, Movie editing,

Advertisemnt

Diploma in
6 Design the
Web

Website designing, Movie

making, Greeting creation, Web
animation

Diploma in
7 Design &
Development

Creating movie, Editing photos,

Games making
CBT making, etc.,

Digital
2
Illustration
3

Digital Image
Production

Adobe
4 Publishing
collection
5

Digital Video
editing

M C E T s dreams of bringing the best personal computing experience

to students, educators, creative professionals and consumers around
the country through Apples innovative hardware, software and
internet offerings has materialised on launching of Apple Distinguished
School on 13th July 2000.
Apple Distinguisehd School is the first state-of-the-art and high-tech
centre in India and SAARC Countries, which is equipped with 110 Nos.
of the Apple Computers
Adobe Certified Training Provider (ACTP)
M C E T has joined hands with Adobe, a world-recognised software
company to train the students in the areas of Graphic design,
Publishing, Printing, Web page designing, Web Animation, Audio /
Video editing, Internet, Desktop Movie Creation and Page Generation.
ADS is providing Training on various Adobe products to make
publishing, webpage authoring effectively:
*
*
*
*

Adobe
Adobe
Adobe
Adobe

Photoshop
Illustrator
Streamline
Premiere

*
*
*
*

Adobe
Adobe
Adobe
Adobe

Pagemaker
Aftereffects
Dimensions
Pagemill

Courses Offered:
Click on the link to know

more.>>

M C E T's tie-up with A C E N E T, a recognised Novell Authorised

Education Partner (NAEP) to train the students in Novell platform.

To create awareness on global networking and career

opportunities in networking.
To offer advanced training programme on Networking concepts
under Novell banner namely Certified Novel Administrator (CNA)
and Certified Novel Engineer (CNE).
Total outlay is Rs.50 lakhs

First of its kind in INDIA to have a tie-up with ACCEL IT

Academy, Chennai to enable the students to keep pace with
the latest technologies in Computer Hardware and
Networking with a total outlay of Rs. 12 lakhs
The Centre established to train the students in the areas of
computer hardware servicing and Networking.
Courses offered:
Level 1
Certificate in Computer Hardware Service Engineering
Level 2
Certificate in Advanced Computer Hardware Service
Engineering
Level 3
Certificate in Integrated Computer Hardware Services
Network Engineering
Certificate courses in Microsoft Windows NT, Sunsolaris,
CISCO, Linux, Unix, Internet Engineering

ACADEMIC MASTER PLAN

for
TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
2004
ii

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Item Page
Executive
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iii
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . iv
Foundations of the Academic Master Plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.v
Mission
Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi
Values of Academic
Affairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. .viii
Directions for Instruction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. ix
Directions for Research, Creative, and Scholarly Activities . . . . . . . . . . .
.x
Directions for
Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Goals for 2015 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. .xii
College of Agriculture and Human Ecology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.1
College of Arts and Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
..9
College of Business Administration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.38
College of Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. .42
College of
Engineering . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51
School of Interdisciplinary Studies and Extended Education . . . . . . . . . .
.54
School of
Nursing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Research and Graduate
Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Angelo and Jennette Volpe Library and Media Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
68

Enrollment Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. .89
Information Technology Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.93
Institutional
Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
iii

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Tennessee Technological University is committed to providing

access to a
superior learning experience for tomorrows leaders, to
contributing to the economic
development of the region, state, and nation, and to providing
outreach to the campus
constituents both as a learning process for students and as a
benefit to constituents. The
Academic Master Plans of the divisions of Academic Affairs
provide guidance for
ensuring the achievement of the Universitys commitments and
the fulfilling of the
Universitys Mission.
iv

INTRODUCTION
Tennessee Technological University has developed this Academic
Master Plan to
provide guidance for future academic decision making. The Plan
incorporates individual
plans from the divisions that constitute Academic Affairs and
describes what should be
done to enhance their programs. The proposed activities have not
been prioritized
beyond the division level.
v

FOUNDATIONS OF THE ACADEMIC MASTER PLAN

The foundations of the Academic Master Plan are the Universitys
Mission
Statement; the Values of Academic Affairs; the Statements of
Directions for Instruction,
Research, Creative and Scholarly Activities, and Service; and the
Academic Affairs
Goals for 2015.
vi

MISSION STATEMENT

Tennessee Technological Universitys mission is to broaden and

enhance its
unique role as the states only technological university through
strong emphasis on and
support of its academic programs in engineering and basic
science and through expansion
of its research activities in these and related areas. In addition, it
maintains a superior
undergraduate program in the arts and sciences, ensuring a
liberal arts foundation for all
students, supports distinguished business administration and
teacher education programs,
and offers programs of high quality in agriculture, arts and music,
home economics, and
nursing, designed to meet regional needs. Tennessee Tech serves
students from
throughout the state, nation, and many other countries, but it
retains a special
commitment to serve the Upper Cumberland Region of
Tennessee.
The major component of the academic mission is high-quality
instruction in the
Universitys undergraduate, masters, specialist, and doctoral
degree-granting programs.
The University is engaged in scholarly activity, especially basic
and applied research,
creative endeavors, and public service, with special emphasis on
community and
economic development. To complement its academic program,
the University provides
opportunities for participation in a variety of extracurricular
activities as integral
components of its commitment to student life.
The Universitys three interdisciplinary Accomplished Centers of
Excellence in
Electric Power, Manufacturing, and Water Resources and two
Chairs of Excellence in
Business Administration strengthen the instructional, research,
and service mission of the
University.
The University is as supportive of women as of men and as
supportive of those in

the minority as of those in the majority. The University provides

educational
opportunities to all eligible persons without regard to age,
gender, color, race, religion,
national origin, or disability.
Tennessee Technological University is a member of the State
University and
Community College System of Tennessee and is governed by the
Tennessee Board of
Regents.
vii

VALUES OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

Tennessee Technological Universitys academy values
Integrity
Excellence
Commitment
Diversity
Intellectual Freedom
Caring and Supportive Environment
Future Orientation
viii

DIRECTIONS
Discussions originating in the Deans Council and involving the
Colleges,
Schools, and Faculty Senate have resulted in these Statements of
Directions for
Instruction, Directions for Research, Creative, and Scholarly
Activities, and Directions
for Service. These Statements provide a common set of directions
for each of the units.
ix

DIRECTIONS FOR INSTRUCTION

1. We will continue to offer excellent traditional degree programs.
2. We will continue to develop and offer cutting edge
professional degree and
certificate programs that meet demonstrated societal needs.
3. We will continue to recognize the advantages of a campus
education experience,
especially for the traditional age student, and we will continue to
recruit resident
students.

4. We will recognize that there are many methods of delivering

quality instruction.
5. We will recognize the need of students for credit courses and
degrees where the
offerings are not place and/or time bound. These programs will be
offered with
the same excellence as on campus programs even though a
range of delivery
methods will be required.
6. We will partner with other institutions to make education
available to all and
seamless to the participant.
7. We will reward faculty who excel in these areas and whose
activities result in new
students being attracted to TTU.
x

DIRECTIONS FOR RESEARCH, CREATIVE,

AND SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES
1. We will continue to perform cutting-edge research in new and
emerging areas in
all the academic disciplines represented at Tennessee Tech.
2. We will continue to promote and recognize creative and
scholarly activities.
3. We will continue to recruit faculty with strong potential and
interests in research,
creative arts, and/or scholarly activities, and in graduate
education.
4. We will seek new state and federal support for emerging areas
as well as pursue
all existing opportunities.
5. We will aggressively seek support for research, creative, and
scholarly activities
from industry and philanthropic organizations.
6. We will form consortia with other institutions, federal
laboratories, industry, and
faculty to pursue large block grants.
7. We will seek research funding to upgrade laboratory
infrastructure and scientific
equipment.
8. We will seek more funding for undergraduate research
experiences as a means of
encouraging undergraduates to pursue graduate education.

9. We will continue to recruit, advise, mentor and provide

financial assistance to
quality graduate students while maintaining diversity in our
graduate student
population.
10. We will continue to publish scholarly manuscripts in
professional journals.
11. We will continue artistic exhibitions and performances.
12. We will recognize and reward research, creative and scholarly
activities, and
graduate education.
xi

DIRECTIONS FOR SERVICE

1. We will continue to emphasize service as one of the three
primary functions of
Tennessee Technological University, along with teaching and
research.
2. We will recognize and reward service activities of faculty, staff,
students, and
administrators.
3. We will seek new and innovative service opportunities for TTU
faculty, students,
staff, and administrators.
4. We will seek funding from various sources for service
opportunities.
5. We will participate in partnerships and collaborative efforts
with other institutions,
community partners, and partners from other appropriate
entities.
6. We will establish and support a campus-wide infrastructure to
appropriately
support service-related functions.
7. We will provide students opportunities to participate in service
learning.
8. We will conduct research related to service activities.
9. We will share the knowledge gained regarding service through
scholarly
publications and presentations.
10. We will effectively communicate the impact of the service
provided by the TTU
family to the institution and throughout the region.
xii

GOALS FOR 2015

This set of goals for Academic Affairs for 2015 (the Universitys
Centennial year) have
been developed through campus discussions.
1. Student-Centered Learning will be the educational
environment.
2. The student will have her/his academic needs met when,
where, and how it best
meets her/his needs while academic quality and integrity are
maintained. The
approaches will vary by academic unit; however, the small
number of students
living on campus, the number of students working, and the
increasing number of
adult learners require that the units of Academic Affairs be
innovative in
meeting academic needs.
3. Inhibition to innovation will be eliminated.
4. Internet 2 will be required for TTU faculty to do real time
interactive distance
learning. This approach will supplement our other distance
education efforts.
5. P-16 without the undergraduate experience becoming grades
13, 14, 15, and 16
will be successful and TTU will have a clear understanding of how
it can help the
region.
6. The reward structure will recognize excellence.
1

COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE
AND HUMAN ECOLOGY
ACADEMIC MASTER PLAN
2

College-Level

Name of Program: Classroom Renovation

Goal: Upgrade SH104 to a State-of-the-Art Classroom
Description: Replace Proxima multimedia projector and install new
seating for
increased capacity and comfort.
Justification: Current Proxima multimedia projector is defective and
outdated.
Seating capacity is only 45, and some of the current seats are
damaged beyond repair.

Resources Required: $9,750 for Proxima multimedia projector and

$10,000 for new
seating. TAF funds will be requested for the projector and private
donations will be sought for the remaining renovation.
Name of Program: First-Year Experience
Goal: Initiate Coordinator Position
Description: Initially, grant two to three hours of released time to a
faculty
member or fund a student assistant for a faculty member to allow
time for that person to coordinate some activities with new
students, focusing mainly on communication with new students
(e-newsletter), monitoring student progress, and arranging social
events.
Justification: These activities for new students can result in increased
retention
and greater student satisfaction with their university experience.
Resources Required: Initially, $1,200 to $1,800 for an adjunct and
eventually, $20,000
for a full-time position.

School-Level

Name of Program: Farm Facilities and Hyder-Burks Agricultural

Pavilion
Goal: Build and Upgrade
Description: Build new state-of-the-art teaching greenhouse on the
Tech Farm,
improve acoustics at Hyder-Burks Agricultural Pavilion, and/or
build new barn, with stall dividers, at the Pavilion.
Justification: The teaching greenhouse on the Tech Farm (at Nursery
Research
and Service Center) is outdated and needs to be replaced. The
sound system at Hyder-Burks Agricultural Pavilion is adequate,
but acoustical improvement is drastically needed. Inadequate
barn/stall facilities result in missed bookings and loss of revenue.
Resources Required: $500,000 for teaching greenhouse, $150,000 for
acoustical
improvement at Hyder-Burks Agricultural Pavilion (install
3
acoustical tiles in the main arena) and $250,000 for barn with stalls
at the Pavilion. Ag Foundation has already committed $50,000 to
acoustical improvement. We will work with staff of U.S.
Congressman Lincoln Davis to try to obtain a special appropriation
of at least $500,000, and will also approach several private donors
for assistance.
Name of Program: Upgrade Design Studio (JW 206) Human
Ecology
Goal: Renovate and Update

Description: Upgrade the Design Studio by replacing outdated drafting

equipment and computers with 20 new drafting stations, 20
drafting chairs, and 20 new computers.
Justification: The project to update the Design Studio was begun in
2002, and
completion of this project will help fulfill the Units and
Universitys agreement with the producers of Chief Architect, an
autocad software system, which was given to the University with
the provision that it be used in the Housing and Design curriculum.
Resources Required: $16,000 for 10 drafting stations. TAF funds will be
requested and
money from a restricted account (Dyer funds) will be used. Some
equipment has already been purchased or approved.
Name of Program: Agricultural Engineering Technology Power
and Machinery
Lab Replacement
Goal: Develop and Replace
Description: Development of a state-of-the-art laboratory with
dimensions of 30
ft. x 84 ft. in a suitable layout for teaching to replace the current
agricultural engineering technology power and machinery lab. It
would have four work bays, adequate work benches and storage
space, and proper heating and air circulation.
Justification: The laboratory currently in use in the Old Maintenance
Building is
too small and obsolete. Development of a larger lab that is well
designed and properly supplied with state-of-the-art equipment
will permit more effective instruction, increased enrollment in the
courses taught there, and improved safety.
Resources Required: Estimated cost of $350,000. Possible funding
avenues will be
explored as they are identified.
Name of Program: Upgrade Merchandising and Design
Laboratories (JW215 and
SH122) Human Ecology
Goal: Renovate and Update
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Description: The apparel design and construction lab (JW215) needs
computerized equipment especially because our students have
learned on better equipment in their high school labs. Also,
computer pattern software is needed and could be installed in the
housing and design studio. Prior to now, we had no computer labs
in close proximity to JW215 where students could easily move
from computer generated patterns to the design lab for utilization.
Also, SH122 has never been equipped as a merchandising lab.

Justification: The project will allow our students in Merchandising and

Design
and Family and Consumer Sciences Education to have access to
the latest learning resources in their field. The outcome will be a
highly competent graduate.
Resources Required: $16,000 for computerized equipment in JW215,
$4,000 for pattern
making software in JW210, and $15,000 for tables, chairs, wall
fixtures and other merchandising classroom equipment for SH122.
TAF funds will be requested plus Dyer Restricted Account funds
will be used.
Name of Program: Forage and Turfgrass Field Laboratory
Agriculture
Goal: Develop Field Nursery Area
Description: Forage and turfgrass crops nursery areas will be
developed at the
TTU Farm for use in teaching plant recognition and familiarity
with growth habits and growing seasons concerning these crops.
Individual plots will be developed for the major species that are
important in Tennessee and surrounding areas. Larger turfgrass
management plots will also be developed as resources permit and
involvement in the program justifies.
Justification: Forage crops are a vital part of the animal agriculture of
Tennessee. Some of the same species are used for turfgrass areas,
conservation plantings and wildlife support. Turfgrass
management is a growing area of the green industry of Tennessee
and the United States. A turfgrass management area of
concentration was recently added to the agriculture program at
Tech. Development of this field laboratory will greatly aid
teaching of these subject areas.
Resources Required: Suitable land areas are available at the Tech
farms. Seed will be
solicited from seed suppliers. Equipment is available for current
needs but additional turf equipment will be needed as turfgrass
management plots are added. Equipment needed will include a
power reel mower, a plot sprayer, aerator, seedbed roller and
vertical mower. Total costs could reach $8,000-10,000 within 3-5
years. Support from the turfgrass industry will be sought to
support development of this part of the program.
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Name of Program: Distance Learning Agriculture and Human
Ecology
Goal: Offer Online Courses
Description: Offer online courses in Human Ecology such as HEC 3840,
4830,
4831, and 3842 (Occupational Family and Consumer Science

Endorsements), HEC 4990 (Internship) and/or HEC 2990 (Social

Intelligence). Also, offer courses in Agriculture such as ANS 3130
(Animal Breeding and Genetics), AGED 4300 (5300) and 4350
(5350) (Agricultural Education) and/or AGRN 4110 (5110) Forage
Crops. At least eight online courses will be offered by 2008.
Justification: This will allow place-bound students to complete
endorsements
or take some courses without having to come to campus. Also, it
would give resident students greater flexibility in completing
degree requirements.
Resources Required: $7,500 for release time for faculty to enable them
to learn skills
and to develop the courses. Collaborate with School of
Interdisciplinary and Extended Education to fund adjunct faculty.
Name of Program: Student Recruitment Agriculture
Goal: Develop Event
Description: Develop a recruitment event that will bring 100-150 high
school
seniors and their agriculture teachers to the Tennessee Tech
campus each year to familiarize them with the agriculture program
at TTU. After learning about the program, they will be given
tickets to a football or basketball game or other suitable event.
Justification: Maintaining and building student enrollment requires
familiarity
with the agriculture program at Tech. On campus attendance at a
sporting event will be coupled with an overview of the agriculture
program for high school seniors and their agriculture teachers as a
way of building enrollment.
Resources Required: Providing a meal plus a cap or shirt plus brochures
to 150 students,
postage, and other small expenses estimated total of $1,800 per
year. Business sponsors will be sought for meals, shirts/caps, and
tickets. Some funds from the TTU Agriculture Foundation will
also be sought for this event.
Name of Program: Student Recruitment Human Ecology
Goal: Develop and Implement
Description: The School of Human Ecology will revisit current recruiting
practices and develop a recruitment plan which will involve all
HEC faculty, selected students, the College Recruitment
Committee, the Dean, and the College AG/HEC Ambassadors.
The implementation of the plan, which would include an annual
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visit to each FACS classroom in the Upper Cumberland high
schools, would begin immediately. A faculty workshop will be
held prior to classes in the fall 2003 to work on this program.

Justification: Demand for HEC graduates exceeds the current

graduation rate.
Also, projection reports for retirement of FACS teachers and
Extension Agents reveal a much higher number of graduates
needed than are currently graduating in those areas. Also, the high
turnover rate in the retail/merchandising fields results in high
demand for graduates.
Resources Required: $2,000 per year for travel and promotional
literature. Indirect
grant monies can be used. Also, outside sources will be sought.
Name of Program: AAFCS and ADA Accreditations Human
Ecology
Goals: 1. Maintain AAFCS Accreditation
2. Achieve ADA-DPD Accreditation
Description: The School of Human Ecology is accredited by AAFCS
through
2010 when reaccreditation will be sought. A bi-annual report is
required. The School is currently writing the self-study for an
ADA Site Visit in October 2003. Annual reports are currently
required as an approved ADA-DPD program and will continue
when accredited.
Justification: There is a financial incentive for the University to have
accredited
programs. Also, a high-quality academic program will meet
national standards.
Resources Required: $20,000 for self studies, site visit fees, and annual
and bi-annual
reports through 2011.
Name of Program: Articulation Agreements
Goal: Establish
Description: Work with the Tennessee Early Childhood Alliance, the
College of
Education, and the TTU Articulation Officer to establish an
articulation agreement that would provide seamless transfer of
students from community colleges offering the AAS in Early
Childhood Education to TTU in either Child-Family Major
ECED/ECSP or Human Ecology CDFR. Students would receive
full credit at TTU for the TECTA-sponsored/taught courses at
community colleges.
Justification: Serving on the Tennessee Early Childhood Alliance
provides an
opportunity to monitor the content of the TECTA courses and to
align it with TTU courses. The result is confidence that students
are meeting standards. Also, with a well articulated agreement
A.A.S.-EC students are more likely to attend TTU.
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Resources Required: Minimal only time to attend TECTA meetings and

to work with
all parties to make this happen.
Name of Program: Faculty Development Agriculture
Goal: Provide Support
Description: Financial support up to $500 per year will be
sought/provided for
each faculty member to cover expenses to attend one approved
professional meeting or workshop each year.
Justification: Interaction with faculty members in your discipline at
professional
meetings, attending professional presentations about teaching and
scholarly activities, and participation in professional workshops are
means of keeping up-to-date for university teaching. Most faculty
members in the School of Agriculture have limited research
appointments and opportunities for grant support for travel. It is
important that support be provided from other sources for them to
participate in these activities.
Resources Required: Support of $500 per faculty member for 11 faculty
members totals
$5,500 per year. Support will be sought from the Tennessee Tech
Agriculture Foundation and supplemented with funds available
from the John Rose Agriculture endowment to support this
program.
Name of Program: Faculty Human Ecology
Goals: 1. Provide Opportunities
2. Establish Position
Description: 1. A program for faculty development with opportunities
for both
group and individual development will be made available.
2. A new faculty member with a general Human Ecology degree
is needed to teach in areas of student growth such as Housing
and Design and areas which provide large numbers of service
courses such as Child Development and Family Relations.
Also, this would relieve the heavy load of the director and
certain faculty.
Justification: 1. The loss of all travel money and 40% of the operating
budget
in Spring 2003 creates a need to find ways to continue the
development of faculty and build morale.
2a. To fulfill a recommendation by the AAFCS Accreditation
Council The workload of the Director of the School should be
reassessed. The extra faculty member could assume some
teaching responsibilities of the director.
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2b. A new faculty member in HEC would be in agreement with the

Technical Memorandum No. 2 Revised (Linda Bernhart/

Glenn Binkley- 12/20/01) which stated on page 3 that the
number of projected employees needed in Human Ecology are
one full-time administrator and seven faculty members.
2c. HEED and HEHO concentrations have increased significantly
in student enrollment since the above report was made. A
faculty member would support growth areas.
Resources Required: $45,000 (S&B) for a full-time permanent instructor
or $55,000
(S&B) for a tenure-track professor. Also, $500 development funds
per faculty member for a total of $3,500.
Name of Program: Staff Human Ecology
Goal: Provide Support Staff
Description: This person would assist the School Secretary with clerical
responsibilities and function as a laboratory/technical assistant in
the School.
Justification: Currently the School of Human Ecology has only one staff
member. According to the Bernhart/Binkley Technical
Memorandum as stated on page 3, the projected support employees
needed in Human Ecology are two.
Resources Required: $25,000 (S&B) for a full-time or $12,000 for a
part-time support
staff person.
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COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

ACADEMIC MASTER PLAN

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Each of the 11 departments in the College of Arts and Sciences has
developed five-year goals,
together with an estimate of the actions and resources needed to
achieve these goals. These
plans are attached, together with those at the college-level. Despite
the diversity of disciplines
represented, certain themes come through most of the departmental
reports:
1. Enhancement of Graduate Programs
This theme clearly reflects the recent pressures to make these
programs more productive
of graduates. Biology hopes to create an MA with a non-thesis option,
and Math may
wish to add a non-thesis option to its MS. Math is also working on a
professional
masters degree in Mathematics. Earth Sciences is designing an MS in
Geographical

Information Systems. Biology, Chemistry, Math and the Ph.D. program

intend to increase
support for graduate students by increasing grant activities.
2. Revision of Undergraduate Curricula, Emphasizing Applied,
or Potentially
Applicable, Studies
In Biology, this comes across as the desire for a more active program
in molecular
biology and biomedical research. In Chemistry it means new courses or
concentrations in
biomedical, forensic, and pharmaceutical chemistry, and the creation
of stand-alone
introductory courses for general education students. In addition to
designing an
undergraduate course in internet computing, Computer Science is
thinking of creating
certification programs out of subsets of the existing areas of study, so
that non-majors can
gain a credential in Computer Science. English hopes to fold
Professional
Communication into the existing BS degree, to clarify the
concentrations in literature and
writing, and to consider concentrations in speech and the dramatic
arts. Foreign
Languages is thinking about elementary education licensure. Foreign
Languages is
pursing a double-major to be called International Engineering.
History plans a
comprehensive review of the curriculum, as does Mathematics.
3. Enhancement of Instructional Technology
This persistent theme shows up in Chemistrys effort to create a webbased Life Sciences
course and to integrate web-based learning throughout the general
chemistry lectures and
labs. Foreign Languages hopes to hire a media specialist to train and
assist faculty, and
History plans to provide a laptop to each faculty member. Physics
expects to convert one
lecture section to an online version.
The current issues of retention and fund-raising appear in only a few of
the reports--with
Chemistry forming a departmental advisory board and planning to
launch an ambitious
capital campaign to support the pre-professional health sciences;
Computer Science

seeking better relations with area schools and community colleges, as

well as with
universities in the region; and Sociology/Philosophy intending to create
an undergraduate
mentoring program.
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At the college-level, these minor departmental themes become
major. We plan to
double the size of the CAS Board of Visitors, at the same time
encouraging departments
to use the College Visitors as a source of leadership for departmental
boards. As soon as
the University can support it, we would like to engage in a focused
fund-raising effort. In
the area of retention, we will be piloting freshman learning
communities and hope to
expand this program over the next few years. We would also like to
improve
undergraduate advising, partly by hiring an advising coordinator and
providing some sort
of advising center, and partly by redesigning our student ambassador
group to make it
more department-oriented and giving it a clear charge to work on
retention. The
extracurricular dimension of general education will become a more
important part of the
Colleges effort over the next five years as well. We seek an innovative
approach to
internationalizing the campus, and we seek innovative ways to
integrate the continuing
series of concerts, lectures, exhibits, and plays with ongoing classroom
education. We
would also like to establish a more systematic and productive
relationship between our
college and the area high schools and community collegesprobably
through disciplinebased
groups: Science, Mathematics, Foreign Language, English, History, and
Social
Studies. Finally, we hope to hire a new scientific equipment technician
to troubleshoot
our increasing amount of departmental equipment, ranging from
projectors, DVD
players, and a language lab to highly sophisticated instrumentation.
Many of these plans, at both departmental and college levels, will
require significant

resourcesas indicated in the attached reports. In the absence of new

funding, the only
alternatives will be private money, external grants, or gradual
reallocation from lower to
higher-priority activities. This latter alternative is not very promising,
because a dozen
years of economizing have reduced all college activities to a very low
level or
supportor, to put it more positively, have stimulated a high level of
efficiency and
thrift.

College-Level

Name of Program: Freshman Learning Communities

Goal: Implement and expand
Description: We have designed four pilot communities, each with 25
freshmen taking
three courses in common. If these work as well as we hope they will,
we
will add cohorts groups each year until we run out of faculty members
willing to teach in learning communities.
Justification: Learning communities improve retention, according to
national research,
and enhance the undergraduate experience.
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Resources Required: A small fund to support social activities that
include food or area travel,
to buy t-shirts, and to publicize. The College can provide these funds
from endowment money and the General Education Fund.
Name of Program: P-16 Discipline-based Groups
Goal: Establish
Description: Set up a systematic way for our departments to carry on a
dialogue with
their counterparts in the area schools and community colleges.
Justification: If we can improve these relationships, students will find it
easier to
attend or transfer to Tech, and learning can be improved by ensuring a
smoother progression from elementary through higher education.
Resources Required: Minimal amounts to support food or travel.
Name of Program: Internationalizing the Undergraduate
Experience
Goal: To make dramatic improvements in Tech students understanding
of
cultures other than their own.
Description: The new emphasis on multiculturalism and globalism in
the TBR
General Education Core invites us to give more focus and intensity to

existing means of introducing Tech students to other cultures and to

integrate these with new means. On the assumption that we will never
be
sending even a majority of our students abroad for any part of their
studies, we must redouble efforts to internationalize their experience
on
this campus.
Justification: Every Tech graduate will have to interact with persons
from other
cultures, and if they wish to become credible leaders, they must
understand basic differences in cultural practices and outlooks.
Resources Required: The first step is to use judiciously the new portion
of the General
Education Fund that is earmarked for international education.
Name of Program: Board of Visitors
Goal: Double its size
Description: Expand the Board by inviting new members; each
prominent in his or
her field.
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Justification: To increase attendance at the annual meeting, we need to
allow for the
usual 30-50% absentee rate. Also, we need a larger Board to prepare
for
a fund-raising effort.
Resources Required: No new resources.
Name of Program: Technical Support
Goal: Hire a Scientific Equipment Technician
Description: As technology becomes more pervasive across the
College, we need, in
addition to Billy Sells, a technician able to do repair work ranging from
the elementary to the electronically advanced.
Justification: Our eleven departments are having increasing difficulty
keeping
equipment in good working order.
Resources Required: 26-38K
Name of Program: CAS Advising Center
Goal: Create
Description: A college-wide center recommended by an external
reviewer
as a way to guide undeclared students, coordinate departmental
advising
of majors, train peer advisors, and provide guidance on careers,
fellowships to grad school, etc.
Justification: Main benefit would be retention (and indirect
recruitment), which

addresses TTU's enrollment goal of 10,000 students. Other benefits

include shortening time to graduation, addressing confusion associated
with the new general education curriculum and with the 120-hour
degree
programs, greater coherence in each student's college program, and
improved post-graduate opportunities--all resulting in higher
satisfaction
with the TTU experience.
Resources Required: 800 square feet of space, an advising coordinator
(c. $25,000), and a
small operating budget (c. $3,000).
Name of Program: Fund Raising
Goal: Hire a development officer and launch a major campaign.
Description: Appoint a full-time professional to take charge of the
Colleges fundraising
efforts.
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Justification: The more successful colleges of arts and sciences in
universities of this
size now have at least one dedicated development officer. Their results
seem to show that intensive fund-raising at the college level pays off in
significantly increased private endowments and income.
Resources Required: New line, reasonably attractive salary (Im not
sure what this would
need to be), and office.

Department-Level
Biology

Name of Program: Department of Biology M.A. Degree Program

Goal: Create
Description: A new graduate program designed to provide
opportunities for students
seeking a graduate degree with a non-thesis option. This program
would
target those individuals that are currently employed (e.g., biology
teachers and state employees) who desire a graduate degree, but
cannot
take time away from their careers to seek the thesis-option M.S.
degree
that is currently offered. The current M.S. program requires funding to
support a graduate students thesis research, thereby limiting the
numbers of students that can be supported. Guidelines for admission
to
the M.A. program will be the same as for the M.S. program, with the
exception that acceptance by a graduate advisor will not be required
(i.e., 3.00 GPA and a combined two-part GRE score of 1000 will be the

requirements). A departmental committee has been formed to study

the
feasibility of creating and implementing this program.
New Resources: This program will require additional graduate course
offerings during
summer semesters and nights. Therefore, costs associated with
creating
this program will include one additional faculty position to coordinate
the program ($50,000) and additional funding for summer course
offerings ($6,000 - $8,000).
Justification: The main benefits of this program would be to increase
graduate student
enrollment, which addresses TTUs enrollment goal of 10,000 students,
and provide a mechanism to increase enrollment of minority and other
non-traditional biology graduate students. A recent external reviewer
considered the departments graduate student enrollment low, and an
M.A. non-thesis program should help address this concern. Other
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benefits would include increased training for professionals and
enhanced
capabilities for the biology graduate program. The Department of
Biology has taught non-degree graduate students and graduate
students
from other academic units (e.g., Education) in graduate courses in the
past. This program would allow for this type of student to obtain a
graduate degree in Biology.
Name of Program: Department of Biology M.S. Degree Program
Goal: Enhance
Description: The M.S. Degree Program in the Department of Biology is
the largest
graduate program in the College of Arts and Sciences, but current
student enrollment is only half of what it was a decade ago. Although
some of this decline can be attributed to the recent implementation of
the
Ph.D. Program in Environmental Science, recent retirements and
reduced research activity among faculty approaching retirement are
the
major factors. As new faculty are hired, this trend is expected to
reverse, and the graduate program is expected to grow. Newly hired
faculty members are already accepting graduate students, indicating
that
this reversed trend has already begun.
New Resources: In recent years, essentially all M.S. students in the
Department of
Biology have received financial support during their program. External
grants and contracts are the chief source for project support, but most

stipends are provided as Research Assistantships (RAs), often as

matching funds from the Water Center, or Teaching Assistantships
(TAs) from the College allocation. The amount of RA support from the
Water Center has declined in recent years and is likely to decline even
more in the near future because of declining funds and inflationary
costs.
Consequently, more TA positions will be needed in the next few years
to
cope with these conflicting trends (i.e., more students and less money).
In addition, stipends should be raised to levels equivalent to average
departmental RA stipends (currently $850 per month) to protect
morale
and compete with stipend levels at other universities. Finally, providing
two months of additional stipend support during the summer (i.e.,
changing 10-month appointments to 12-month appointments) will
ensure
continuity of graduate programs but also require additional funds.
During the next five years, $112,500 annually are projected as needed
to
meet these expenses (6 new stipends at $1,000 per month for 12
months,
an increase in $250 per month for 10 months for our current 9 TA
positions, and $1,000 per month for 2 months for these 9 positions).
These projections are our goals for the end of the five-year cycle, and
we
advocate a step-wise approach to meeting these goals (i.e., a gradual
increase in stipend rates and an increase in number of stipends only
after
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we award all existing stipends and show the need for additional ones).
These figures do not include tuition and fees because of changing fee
structures, but these funds are also needed for both existing and
proposed new stipends.
Justification: The main benefits of this approach would be to increase
internal funding
support for our growing graduate program, thereby providing matching
funds for external grants and contracts. Many funding sources require
such matches, and an investment in this program should largely pay
for
itself through added external funds and associated indirect costs.
Additional graduate stipends should also result in a modest increase in
number of departmental graduate students.
Name of Program: Molecular Biology and Bio-medical Research
Program
Goal: Develop

Description: Although the environmental biology research program in

the
Department of Biology has been traditionally strong and well funded,
only a few faculty members have obtained funding in the areas of
molecular biology and bio-medical research. However, these disciplines
are among the most heavily funded disciplines in biology. New faculty
are needed in these areas to supplement and build on current research
programs in these areas.
New Resources: Two new faculty members at salaries of $50,000 each
per year are
needed to provide a core of expertise in these areas. In addition, an
equipment maintenance budget of $20,000 per year is needed for
service
contracts and equipment repair. Instruments in these areas are very
expensive, but often obtainable through external grants and contracts.
However, repairs and service contracts are generally considered
responsibilities of grantees, and the University should provide sufficient
funds to keep instruments and equipment operating.
Justification: Molecular biology and bio-medical research are among the
fastest
growing and most well funded disciplines in biological sciences. We
submit few applications for grants in these areas because our
infrastructure is insufficient and our faculty expertise only modest.
Providing additional faculty in these areas should result in a substantial
increase in external funding. In addition, a number of funding sources
are available to attract minority students into these areas, and
development of such a research program should aid in minority
recruitment.
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Chemistry

Name of Program: Applied Chemistry Concentration of B.S.

Degree.
Goal: Revise
Description: We are proposing the revision of the Applied Chemistry
concentration in the B.S. Chemistry program with several possible
new focus areas including but not limited to: (i) biomedical
chemistry; (ii) forensic chemistry; (iii) pharmaceutical and
medicinal chemistry. We would undertake a demographic study to
determine career choices most attractive to current students and
needful to the nation and work on designing curricula which meet
these needs within the context of our current offerings (if possible).
Justification: This would better serve the curricular needs of
preprofessional
students seeking a B.S. degree at TTU prior to entering professional
school. This would also attract career-oriented students seeking
specific career goals within chemistry. This would aid in both

recruiting and retention of students. We anticipate an increased

number of chemistry majors by 1/3, from the current 60 to 80 by the
year 2005.
Resources Required: Release time for an additional advisor of the
increased number of
chemistry majors; an addition 1/2 of a full-time faculty due to
increase in enrollment and the addition of a forensic chemistry class.
Name of Program: M.S. Chemistry & Ph.D. Environmental
Sciences Degree
Programs
Goal: Increase production rate
Description: We will increase the productivity of graduates from these
programs
to declassify them from the "low producing" category. In order to
accomplish this we will increase the level of research and scholarly
activity among the chemistry faculty by 25%. This will be gauged
by external dollars generated by grants, number of papers
published, number of M.S. and Ph.D. degrees awarded, and number
of undergraduates involved in faculty research.
Justification: Graduate degrees in chemical and environmental sciences
are
designated as vital national need areas by numerous governmental
and private studies. These programs need to be removed from the
endangered list as "low producing." Both programs are vitally
necessary to the mission of the department since graduate students
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do a large amount of instruction in our laboratories. Furthermore,
the presence of graduate programs helps maintain a better
environment for scholarly activity. In turn, creating an environment
of scholarly activity in the department will (a) have a beneficial
impact on the teaching mission of the department through our
Student-Outcomes Goal III, which is to increase the involvement of
undergraduate students in hands-on and team-based learning
activities; (b) provide for the acquisition of needed laboratory
instrumentation through grants (c) impact the university strategic
goal of increasing external funding.
Resources Required: Addition of two TA lines to the M.S. Chemistry
program and 4 TA
lines to the Ph.D. program. Increase of TA stipends to $10,000 for
the M.S. and $16,000 for the Ph.D. program to remain competitive
and aid recruiting and retention in the programs. Addition of two
full-time faculty, plus addition of 1200 square feet of new research
lab space and 250 square feet of office space for the chemistry
department.
Details: Innovations in faculty teaching assignments will be
devised to provide larger blocks of time available for research,

namely, the establishment of a faculty release time bank will be

implemented to give faculty release time from instruction for grant
writing, involvement of students in research, extensive service
activities, and so forth. Average reduction of teaching load from
12 down to 9 will be achieved through this plan, requiring the cited
additional personnel resources of 2 new Ph.D. faculty members and
one laboratory program coordinator.
Name of Project: Web-based Life Science Chemistry Course
(CHEM1210)
Goal: Revise
Description: We will create a fully Web-based Life Sciences Chemistry
(CHEM1210) course to supplement the new course now being
taught in the traditional method by Dr. Jackson.
Justification: The present enrollment in traditional Chem1210 is 60
students per
semester to service nursing majors, biology, and possibly other
health-related majors. This is a four-hour lecture and no lab, making
it an ideal candidate to put on the Web. With an outreach beyond
the campus thru internet this could easily expand to 200. This
would allow nontraditional nursing majors in the field to upgrade to
RN status by distance learning. This could not be added as a new
layer of load on the existing faculty, since Web-based courses are as
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time-intensive as conventional courses. This would benefit TTU's
enrollment increase and retention goals.
Resources Required: An addition of 1/3 of a full-time permanent faculty
member would
be needed for the new Web-based section.
Name of Project: GenChem2005 (CHEM1110/1120)
Goal: Create
Description: The GenChem 2005 project is to totally integrate Webbased
learning in the main sequence general chemistry lecture and
laboratory program (CHEM1110/1120) using WebCT, electronic
homework, and flexible lab scheduling. Additionally, Web-based
streaming video of lectures and pre-lab lectures would be deployed
so that students off campus can take this course. This would
increase the CHEM1110-1120 enrollment from 450 to 800 students
per year (number of students completing the sequence).
Justification: General Chemistry is a central service course for a variety
of
majors, but is difficult to deploy on line due to its laboratory aspect.
Innovative lab scheduling is needed to fully implement this without
sacrificing the true hands-on laboratory science aspect of the
course. Since this program would be quite unique in the field of
chemical education, we could vastly expand the enrollment.

The primary purpose for this goal is pedagogical in nature. With

university enrollment goal of 10,000, and with the consequent
burgeoning numbers of students enrolling in this course serving the
needs of basic engineering, sciences, and prehealth professional
students, instructional technology will need to be exploited to
continue to provide an active learning component to these large
enrollment sections of general chemistry. This will aid student
academic performance and in turn aid retention of students.
Resources Required: One full-time chemical education specialist at the
instructor level
(M.S. degree) plus 150 square feet of office space. This person
would be charged with overseeing the general chemistry lab
program: deploying and monitoring electronic homework on the
Web for 1000 students, assigning and training TA's, scheduling
limited laboratory equipment resources, updating lab manuals,
keeping lab equipment in working order, running the WebCT site
for all the labs which administers pre-lab instuction and testing of
students, and maintaining grade records for multiple section. This
is a lower-level activity than our current faculty are qualified for,
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and would be more appropriately placed into the hands of a fulltime
instructor-level person who could oversee the entire program.
Existing on-campus production facilities can be used, but a
dedicated digital video capturing device and high throughput
internet connection needs to be assigned to the Chemistry
Department.
The current PC lab needs to be supplemented with 40 more PC's lab
(800 added square feet) for chemistry. This is required to do
scheduled online monitored testing of students to retain the integrity
of the assessment of students. This is also needed to remove the
CURRENT logjam in our PC lab caused by our laboratory program.
Name of Project: One-semester Standalone Chemistry Courses
for General
Education
Goal: New
Description: We will create at least two one-semester standalone
general
chemistry courses for non-majors to meet the General Education
curricular needs of the new 120-hour curricula. Possible titles
include: Consumer Chemistry; Chemistry of the Environment;
Chemistry of Life.
Justification: These courses will be of greater currency than the
traditional
CHEM1010/1020 course sequence. This will generate greater
student interest in the sciences and increase retention and
performance. Furthermore, they provide a 4-hour lab science

course that will more efficiently satisfy Gen Ed curricular needs

mandated by TBR.
Resources Required: One new full-time faculty member.
Name of Program: One-Million-Dollar Capital Campaign for the
Pre-professional
Health Sciences Program
Goal: Create
Description: We will conduct a $1M Capital Campaign to Endow
Undergraduate
Research Scholarships for Biochemistry and Health Science
Preprofessional
Majors. The goal is to make a concerted effort with
help from TTU Office of University Development to build a $1
Million Endowment for undergraduate research scholarships to
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enhance the development of pre-professional health science and
biochemistry students.
Justification: The Chemistry Department has played a vital role over
many years
in training health science pre-professional students who have
subsequently competed very well in their respective graduate
schools. Because the Chemistry Department so greatly benefits
from the success of the pre-health program, we feel strongly led to
do whatever we can to augment this program through a major
funding campaign. We have lacked scholarships to attract the many
pre-professional health science majors to TTU. An ongoing
fundraising effort is needed in order to enhance our ability to attract
exceptional students into the pre-professional health science
programs. The campaign focus is to raise money for scholarships
that incorporate participation in undergraduate research as a
fundamental goal. The element of research tied to a scholarship
will greatly assist students in developing the critical thinking skills
needed to pass the important admissions exams such as MCAT,
PCAT, etc. Such experience will also open to the student many
other career opportunities as well as strengthen their candidacy to
graduate schools including professional schools.
Resources Required: A full-time development officer for the College of
Arts and
Sciences is needed to really see success of this effort. Faculty
efforts alone cannot carry the burden of this task.
Name of Program: Chemistry Department Advisory Board
Goal: Create
Description: We will establish an alumni advisory board for the
Department of
Chemistry. This board will consist of interested alumni and friends
of the department. This board will meet together annually at

homecoming, and also correspond through e-conferencing.

Justification: The purpose of establishing this board is as follows: (1) to
provide
expertise and advice to the department in matters of curriculum; (2)
to assist in recruiting efforts; (3) to assist in fundraising efforts; (4)
to create coop and internship opportunities in the field.
Resources Required: None required.
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Computer Science

Name of Program: Certification / Targeted Minors

Goal: Explore / Adapt / Create
Description: With the proposed elimination of a minor requirement as
part of the
120-hour requirement, and with the growing interest in Computer
Science as a non-major discipline among many students, we plan to
explore the possibility of creating certification programs that are
similar to guided minors in Computer Science. The program will
provide suitable subset of our classes for students interested in
specific areas such as programming, systems administration, etc.
Course completion requirements will be a B or better and possibly a
culminating project course for obtaining the certification.
Justification: Main benefit would be improving FTE of our department
and to
precipitate the application of computer science to interested
students. Will also provide an opportunity to customize special
programs for interested personnel from local industry.
Resources Required: Some additional teaching resources (adjuncts)
may be required if
program is successful for project courses / additional sections.
Name of Program: Accreditation
Goal: Obtain
Description: Pursue accreditation by ABET.
Justification: Main benefit would be a better outlook for our majors and
the ability
to compete on an equal footing with ETSU and MTSU for more
majors. Relates to university enrollment goal.
Resources Required: Accreditation fees, means/funds to promote
increased faculty
research and associated travel.
Name of Program: Additional Faculty Line (Possibly Joint
Appointments with ECE
or DS)
Goal: Create
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Description: An additional faculty line will make it easier for the
department to

promote more collaborative research activities and pursue external

funding by existing faculty.
Justification: This will provide the department the ability to handle
additional
graduate students, as well as provide some relief for existing
faculty to pursue other scholarly activities. It will also enhance our
graduate program.
Resources Required: New faculty line.
Name of Program: Build Tie-ups with Regional Schools
Goal: Create
Description: Develop a linkage program with regional schools to
promote
awareness among students in these schools about our program.
Justification: This will provide the department the ability promote
outreach
activities and help attract students to our programs. Relates to
university enrollment goal.
Resources Required: At least some release time for one faculty
member.
Name of Program: Build Curriculum Tie-ups with Two-Year
Schools
Goal: Create
Description: Develop a linkage program with two-year schools from
which we
get a lot of transfer students to help articulate ways to ease student
transfers into our program.
Justification: This will provide the department the ability promote
outreach
activities and influence curricula at some two-year schools, thereby
easing transfer student problems with some computer science
courses. Relates to university enrollment goal.
Resources Required: At least some release time for one faculty
member.
Name of Program: Build Research Tie-ups with Other
Universities
Goal: Create
Description: Develop a linkage program with other regional and
research
universities to promote collaborative research opportunities. Create a
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seminar series that will promote speakers from other regional
universities.
Justification: This will provide the department with the ability to
promote
collaborative research tie-ups with faculty from other schools,
thereby providing faculty enrichment and pursuit of scholarly

activities.
Resources Required: At least some release time for one faculty
member to coordinate the
seminar series efforts.
Name of Program: Develop Undergraduate Courses in Internet
Computing
Goal: Create
Description: Develop a few courses at the undergraduate level on
Internet
Computing.
Justification: This will provide the department with the ability to
develop a
pipeline program for our undergraduate students to pursue our
graduate program. Relates to university enrollment goal.
Resources Required: None

Earth Sciences

Name of Program: Professional Masters Degree in

Geographical Information
Systems (GIS)
Goal: Create
Description: A new graduate professional (non-thesis) degree program
designed
to prepare students for work as geographical information systems
specialists in government or industry. This program would target
individuals who are currently employed. This program will be
taught at night, in intensive summer courses and online.
Justification: This would be the first graduate program in the
Department of Earth
Sciences. It would address the university goal of increasing
enrollment, especially in its graduate program.
GIS is a rapidly expanding discipline used by academia, government
and industry. There are few universities that currently offer such a
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degree, and it should provide students with improved career potential
in a short period of time.
Dr. Ping-Chi Li and others have recently received a Phase I Sloan
Foundation grant to investigate the potential for this and other
graduate degrees within the College of Arts and Sciences. A
committee has prepared a survey to gauge potential interest in
various degree programs, including a professional Masters degree in
GIS. Preliminary results of that survey indicate significant interest
in a graduate degree in GIS.
Resources Required: We would require an increase in our adjunct
budget to provide salary
for a total of about six or seven courses (18-21 credit hours) per
academic year. We currently employ adjuncts for about three

courses (9-10 credit hours) per academic year. The additional funds
for adjuncts will allow us to staff some Masters level courses and
free Dr. Li from some undergraduate courses so he can teach
Masters level courses.
We would require an additional six credit hours of summer pay for
two Masters-level courses. Although some courses will be taught as
traditional on-campus courses and others as online courses, there
will be a need for some short term (two week) courses because many
of the potential GIS graduate students will be full-time employees.
Currently, our GIS lab has just barely adequate physical equipment
(PCs, printers, plotters, digitizers, GPS systems, scanners, etc.).
Because GIS is a very rapidly changing field, we would need a
budget to provide for additional software and hardware on a
continuing basis.
We envision the following GIS courses for this program:
Three current 3-hr courses at the 500 level = 9 hrs
Two new 3-hr 600 level courses (summer) = 6 hrs
Two new 3-hr 600 level courses (academic year) = 6 hrs
One/two new 3-hr 600 level research course(s) = 3-6 hrs
One/two 3-hr 600 level course(s) in a discipline
outside of the department of Earth Sciences = 3-6 hrs
TOTAL = 30 hrs
Name of Program: Environmental Geology Concentration
Goal: Create
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Description: We propose the addition of a third concentration to our
existing
concentrations in geology and geographical information systems.
This concentration would share a core curriculum with the two
current concentrations. We believe that this concentration would
attract students and advance the university goal of increasing
enrollment. The program would be a combination of existing
departmental courses and selected environmental courses from
outside the department.
Justification: A significant percentage of our graduates enter the
environmental
industry job market as environmental geologists. A degree
specifically tailored toward this industry would be attractive to many
students and should increase the number of undergraduate geology
graduates. This is important because the geology program is
currently a low-producing major averaging about six graduates per
year.
Resources Required: None

English

Name of Program: Professional Communication BS

Goal: Create Professional Communication as an option within an

English
BS, with a new specialization titled Information Architecture.
Description: This BS degree would resemble the current EnglishJournalism BS.
The new Information Architecture specialization covers two main
areas: design of hardcopy information and online information. The
focus would be on preparing students to organize and design
information for different audiences and presentation media,
including online environments.
Justification: Replacing the current PC degree with a BS in English-PC is
mandated in the Presidents report on low-producing programs. The
new concentration reflects how the field has been moving toward
emphasizing the effective design of documents for multiple
audiences, using various media. Other leading PC programs across
the country are beginning to develop similar programs, and the
University can remain at the forefront of this field with such a
relevant emphasis.
Resources Required: None initially, but given high enrollment in the
currently offered
website construction class (PC 3500), one additional faculty member
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with expertise in Professional Communication may be needed,
possibly from an existing open faculty line in the department.
Name of Program: English MA
Goal: Enhance enrollment/graduation by clarifying mission and
improving
regional outreach.
Description: A curriculum review that began last year will revise degree
requirements, along with new methods of teacher preparation such as
service learning, especially in the area of Rhetoric/Composition.
Regional outreach will highlight advantages of MA study for area
secondary-school English teachers.
Justification: The report on low-producing programs urges better
graduation rates
for the English MA. Emphasizing the non-thesis option will
expedite completion without sacrificing Ph.D. applicant
competitiveness, while enhancing course offerings in
Rhetoric/Composition will improve teacher training while attracting
Upper Cumberland public-school teachers in need of advanced
coursework in theory and pedagogy.
Resources Required: Modest funding for travel to regional high schools;
our current three
Ph.D. faculty with Rhetoric/Composition specialization are fully
adequate, but could be reinforced with additional hire to existing
open position.

Name of Program: English BA

Goal: Clarify goals of new BA concentrations in Literature and Writing.
Description: These two tracks were created in the departments recent
curriculum
revision, effective in the July 2002 catalogue. A Writing
concentration had been recommended by a previous outside review
of the BA program.
Justification: Goals and benefits specific to each concentration should
be
articulated to help students choose the concentration that best
matches their personal interests and career goals. Because these
concentrations are new, there is no track record yet to show why
students may choose either, or what kind of outcomes (e.g. career
paths) they may lead to. In the meantime, clarifying the goals for
each concentration will help the department assess their
effectiveness and serve students better.
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Resources Required: None.
Name of Program: Speech/Theatre Minor
Goal: Explore developing a Speech/Theatre concentration within
existing
BA and/or BS programs.
Description: A Speech/Theatre concentration would integrate the
current minor
within a current English degree program. For example: an English
BA with concentration in Dramatic Arts (including some Speech
courses); and an English BS with concentration in Speech
Communication (including some Theatre courses).
Justification: Despite significant student interest, no major with a
Speech and/or
Theatre emphasis is currently available at TTU. An English
Speech/Theatre concentration would provide solid coursework in
literature and/or communication, while offering a more attractive
program for students who wish to pursue advanced study in Theatre
or Speech Communication. Also, students pursuing the current
Speech/Theatre minor are difficult to identify and track, and faculty
in Speech and Theatre, though housed in English, have little sense of
enfranchisement in the departments BA or BS programs. By
integrating the Speech/Theatre minor within an existing
baccalaureate program, the English department can expand the range
of its current programs without creating a new degree as such.
Resources Required: None initially; an instructor (possibly adjunct) in
Technical Theatre
(design) would greatly enhance the Theatre program.

Foreign Languages

Name of Program: Language Learning Center Media Training

Goal: Create
Description: The faculty in the department feel the need for a media
specialist to
assist them in making the best use of the wide array of technological
programs and materials currently available.
Justification: Our students are more and more technologically savvy,
and it is
likely that they will respond better to teaching methods and materials
that make use of the available technology. Some faculty members in
the department are already using significant portions of what is
available, but others feel the need for a considerable amount of
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training and continued guidance in optimizing the methods and
materials. Indeed, even the most technologically advanced members
of the department could benefit from regular expert advice.
Resources Required: This would require hiring a media specialist,
preferably one with the
ability to teach some Spanish courses. Estimated cost for 2003
would be $45,000 for an entry-level position with the duties
described.
Name of Program: Elementary School Licensure in Foreign
Languages
Goal: Create
Description: To provide elementary education majors the option of
licensure in a foreign language.
Justification: The national trend continues to be the creation of foreign
language
programs in elementary schools, despite severe budgetary cutbacks
in many areas. Several school districts in Tennessee have such
programs, old or new (e.g., Oak Ridge, Memphis, Chattanooga), and
a number of private schools also offer foreign languages in the
elementary and middle schools. Lack of a program at TTU puts our
students at a disadvantage if they wish to combine K-6 licensure
with an interest in a foreign language (usually Spanish in this area).
Resources Required: At most it might be necessary to create a new
Materials and Methods
course for the elementary school, but it is also possible that the
current SEED 4125 (Materials and Methods of Teaching Foreign
Languages) could be re-tooled to incorporate the skills needed in K6. The main action needed is for this department to work with the
College of Education to create the paperwork necessary to have the
new licensure program approved at the state level. We have already
coordinated with Dr. Gene Talbert and Ms. Sharon Heard and have
spoken with Dean Garber. All seem to be in agreement that this can
be done next year.
Name of Program: International Engineering

Goal: Create
Description: To provide engineering students an option for a twodegree program
in engineering and foreign languages.
Justification: In August 1997, the SGA President, Tony Via, came back
from a
summer co-op program, where he saw first-hand the advantages of
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an international engineering program: the company for which he
worked was very anxious to hire graduates from the University of
Rhode Island's two-degree international engineering program. Tony
and some of his SGA assistants put together a comprehensive
proposal that was supported by the SGA. At the time, TTU would
have been the second in the nation to follow the URI program. Since
then similar programs have sprung up at M.I.T., Rice, Purdue, and
other universities.
While several students are currently working on two degrees for
international engineering, and several others have completed it, there
is still no recognition from the College of Engineering nor
encouragement of this option from that college. Tony Via's proposal
has been in the hands of the Engineering Curriculum Committee for
well over four years.
Resources Required: There is essentially no new cost associated with
this proposal.

History

Name of Program: Enhance the Technological Capacity and

Capabilities of the
Department, Through Provision of Laptop Computers, and
Other Technological Enhancements
Goal: The immediate goal is to provide every faculty member with a
laptop
computer. Subsequent goals will depend, as ever, on emerging
technology.
Description: Funding opportunities will be sought and priorities made
so as to
allow for the purchase of laptop computers and other tools as
appropriate.
Justification: Laptop computers allow for the enhancement of all three
avenues of
service, at a most reasonable cost. They can facilitate research,
enhance classroom teaching, and improve both university service
and community outreach activities. As the states technological
university, we should strive to employ such technology to our
advantage.
Name of Program: Comprehensive Curriculum Review

Goal: Our overriding goal is to allocate personnel resources so as to

ensure
sufficient survey course offerings for our varied constituents, while
maintaining a vibrant array of upper-division courses that provide
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diverse offerings to our majors and other interested parties, and
highlight the skills of our faculty.
Description: Committees will be formed to review the entire
department
curriculum and make recommendations as appropriate. Final
decisions on additions, deletions, and reallocations will be left to the
faculty as a whole.
Justification: In recent years, two department faculty have left for
greener
pastures, while two others have retired. With three other retirements
expected in the next five years, the face of the department will
change. New faculty will bring new skills, priorities and
commitments. Furthermore, changes at the state level, to include a
120-hour curriculum and the General Education Core, will impact
departmental offerings. Changing requirements on campus
(particularly in the College of Education) also call for reallocation of
priorities. Lastly, changes within the historical profession itself have
brought forth new emphases. These extensive and diverse
challenges mandate a comprehensive curriculum review.

Mathematics

Name of Program: Graduate Program in Mathematics

Goal: Enhance and provide more support to graduate students
Description: We would like to increase the number of graduate stipends
in our
program to ten from the current seven in order to be able to graduate
at least 5 students per year. This way we will be able to be removed
from the low producing programs list.
Justification: It would allow us to sustain recent increase in the number
of
graduate students. Presently we have seven graduate stipends; hence
we can support seven students. In the last couple of years the number
of students applying for admission to our graduate program has
increased, and the number of admitted students has also increased.
At present, we have thirteen graduate students pursuing master's
degree in our program. Of them, only seven hold our regular stipend
while the remaining ones are paying for themselves. We have been
receiving many more graduate applications recently but we have
been unable to bring these students in without the support.
One year after the implementation of the goal, the department will
have three additional T.A.s teaching total 18 cr. hrs/semester of
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lower level undergraduate courses. This will have a positive impact

on reallocation of faculty resources.
Resources Required: Office space to accommodate at least three
additional full time T.A.s
and a budget of $22,500 (three stipends at the current level of
$7,500) plus tuition and fees waiver for 3 students.
Name of Program: Undergraduate Program in Mathematics
Goal: Enhance
Description: Redesign existing curriculum and courses and introduce
new courses
on fractal geometry, possibly a second geometry course as a
sequence to MATH 3430 College Geometry, and a course on
mathematical finance to undergraduate curriculum.
Justification: Adding above courses will give more options to our
students. This
will help us in recruiting more math majors. Background in
mathematical finance will improve chances of our math graduates in
the job market. We have already modified our curriculum by
allowing students a choice of two sciences from among the three
(physics, biology, chemistry) instead of requiring that one sequence
be in physics. We have also added a new requirement of MATH
2010 Matrix Algebra in our curriculum. Second geometry course on
projective geometry could be an excellent continuation of MATH
3430 and it is a course needed by the engineering students. Our
department has been asked to introduce that course. Once a sequence
on geometry is established, it could be counted as one of the
sequences required in the undergraduate math curriculum.
Resources Required: May require a faculty in mathematical finance.
Name of Program: Professional Degree in Mathematics
Goal: Create
Description: The department will implement a Professional Masters in
Mathematics degree for students who are interested in a wide variety
of mathematical applications. This program would prepare students
for work in fields such as consulting, banking, insurance, research,
management and technology transfer.
Justification: This will be more appealing to a wide variety of students
who have
degrees in sciences and engineering rather than just math majors.
Since the program is more applied in nature, it will be appealing to
students who seek jobs outside academics.
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Resources Required: Recently, the department has received a starter
grant for the program
from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. At present, several of our
faculty are involved with faculty from Computer Science and
Geology in writing a full-fledged grant proposal for the Professional

Masters Program. In the future, this program would seek partial

support from the University as well as businesses and industries in
the region.
Name of Program: Graduate Program in Mathematics
Goal: Enhance
Description: In view of the recommendations of the TTU Low Producing
Program Committee, steps need to be taken to make our graduate
program more flexible, appealing and able to support more graduate
students. In particular, more joint efforts seeking external funding
will be undertaken, some together with engineering faculty.
Justification: This goal is connected to Goal #1, however, the
department will look
into the current requirements of the program. For example, it has
been suggested to introduce a new course in Applied Abstract
Algebra that would alternate with the current course on pure
abstract algebra. It has been suggested to consider a second
nonthesis
track. It is anticipated that we could get more graduate
students whose career goals do not necessarily include entering a
Ph.D. program.
Resources Required: We will need to fill faculty position in algebra that
has been vacant
for three years now. We have requested permission to fill this line
this year but have not been allowed to open a search.
NOTE 1: To help with goals #1 and #3, the department has been a part
of the CSEMS
Scholarship Program that provides an additional $2,500 to a qualifying
graduate student. The
funding period is coming to an end. We applied for a similar grant in
spring 2002 but we did
not get it. We will be re-applying for it again in spring 2003. However,
at least half of our
graduate students are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents who do
not qualify for the
CSEMS Scholarship. Hence, these students, recently from China, India,
Ukraine, Poland, and
Turkey, need to be supported by our regular stipends. Several faculty
members in the
Department are actively involved in writing grant proposals, which may
result in additional
support for graduate students/program.
NOTE 2: It would greatly help if we could transfer unused stipend
monies from one fiscal year
to the next. Presently, we cannot do that. It would also be very helpful
if we could split

stipends and tuition and fees monies 50-50, for example, between two
students. Overall, it
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would be helpful and more flexible to have the tuition and fees monies
under direct jurisdiction
of the Math Department. Right now these funds are administered by
the deans office while
department administers the stipends.
NOTE 3: Often our students start in spring semester. Even some of the
U.S. students whose
undergraduate major may have been engineering, are lacking
necessary background courses
and need to take them in the spring semester of their admission.
Typically, however, they are
required upon admission to take two semesters of Advanced Calculus
-sequence normally
taken by any undergraduate math major. While we can offer the first
part of Advanced
Calculus in the spring semester, the only option to complete the
second part is in summer.
However, our graduate tuition and fees waivers do not extend to
summer, hence it puts a
burden on the students to pay for them, if they can. In the past, we
have used unspent stipend
monies to cover these costs. However, this year, for example, we do
not have such funds since
all stipends have been allocated. Thus, it would help if we had some
additional, discretionary
funds that we could use to cover tuition and fees of graduate students
in summer.
NOTE 4: If adding additional three stipends is not possible in the near
future, it would help if
we could receive three additional tuition and fees waivers at least so
that we could award them
to the additional students beyond the seven supported students.

Physics

Name of Program: Student Research Opportunities

Goal: Enhance
Description: As the department has changed through retirements,
resignations,
and transfers over the past several years, the local opportunities for
students to participate in research have declined. We propose to
reverse this trend through new faculty hires, preferably in an
experimental area or areas not currently represented on the faculty.
Justification: Since research participation is almost universally viewed
as being

beneficial for students, new opportunities should improve student

learning, retention, and satisfaction. We also believe that research
experience early in the undergraduate career should make our
students more competitive for summer REU positions at other
institutions, which should enhance the reputation of TTU
nationwide.
Resources Required: Permission to fill vacant faculty positions.
Name of Program: Laboratory Furniture
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Goal: Replace
Description: Put new tables and chairs in the introductory laboratories.
Justification: Students in our introductory labs currently sit on 18-inch,
4-legged
stools. The stools are uncomfortable, especially over the course of a
3-hour lab session, and replacement with chairs is warranted.
Replacing tables as well would allow us to reconfigure some of the
labs to use some of our equipment more effectively and to encourage
greater interaction among the lab groups.
Resources Required: $80,000
Name of Program: Online Course
Goal: Implement an online lecture section
Description: Convert one lecture section to an online version.
Justification: The flexibility in an online course may be advantageous to
certain
students.
Resources Required: None

Sociology and Political Science

Name of Program: Facilities Improvement

Goal: Adequate and even heating and cooling with more contemporary
furniture and better access to technology.
Description: The chairs in DN 204 and 207 are World War II vintage
with
decades of graffiti on the writing arms. Many are missing pieces
which are often used to prop the windows open when the air
conditioning is not available or circulation of air is needed.
Justification: Adequate seating, without a pinch from loose seat planks,
is desired
by the students. A couple of left-hand desks should be included in
the 100. There is only one media cart available to the 11 full-time
faculty and 4-8 adjuncts using 3 three classrooms. The cart often
obscures the view of several students if it is a full classroom. We try
to encourage our students to make use of the technology when they
do their presentations near the end of the term. Their use of the cart
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means that other faculty members must find alternatives to the use of
the media cart.

Resources Required: Fifty desks in each classroom for a total of 100.

Ability to have a
classroom temperature appropriate for class. Affixed Proxima
Projector and related equipment in at least one classroom with
locked cabinet. One additional media cart. Approximately $15,000
for media equipment.
Name of Program: Faculty Recruitment
Goal: Recruitment of full-time faculty as appropriate.
Justification: With an internal search for a chair of the department there
will need
to be an external search when the opportunity presents itself. Every
university needs a faculty member to teach cultural anthropology.
The display models are on hand to supplement physical courses too.
Resources Required: Adequate funding will probably be available as
existing faculty
retire. The present needs are greatest for an anthropologist.
Other needs have been approached through the use of adjunct
faculty.
Name of Program: Sociology Mentoring Program
Goal: To integrate new students with their upper-class peers.
Justification: We need to welcome new students whether they are new
to TTU or
not. Information needs to be shared, expected practices need to be
clearly stated, systems for getting more participation from majors in
departmental and in campus activities need to be addressed, and
students career planning could be started earlier.
Resources Required: Organizational efforts on the part of faculty and
upper-class peers.
Proposals are being considered for approaches to be taken.
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COLLEGE OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

ACADEMIC MASTER PLAN

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The College of Business Administration at Tennessee Technological
University has developed
a Master Plan to help guide faculty, staff, and students in focusing on
the key essentials that
will make it a stronger business school over the next five years. The
Master Plan serves as
both a framework for establishing annual goals and objectives and as a
benchmark to evaluate
progress in making continued improvement over time. The annual
goals and objectives are
placed each year on the universitys planning web site
(http://www2.tntech.edu/planning/).

The Master Plan consists of three components:

A Mission statement adopted October 5, 2000
A Vision statement adopted October 5, 2000
A Five-Year Strategic Plan adopted April 17, 2002

Mission

Our mission is to enhance opportunities for our students to become

successful leaders in an
increasingly technological and global business environment. Our
college is committed to
leadership in information technology and information services.
Our endeavor is supported by emphases on excellence in:
Teaching and learning
Applied scholarly inquiry
Service to the profession and to regional constituencies

Vision

The College of Business Administration will be recognized for

excellence in business
education, with:
Curricular emphasis on information technology and information
services
Integration of current technology in all programs
Interdisciplinary programs within the college and the university
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Five-Year Strategic Plan

Program Initiatives
1. Create a separate undergraduate major in MIS.
2. Convert the 5000-level pre-MBA credit courses into distance-based
non-credit modules.
3. Initiate a Distance MBA program.
a. Create new concentrations (e.g., International Business, Healthcare).
b. Establish two corporate MBA programs.
c. Create an Executive MBA program.
4. Implement a 120-hour curriculum model in all undergraduate
majors.
5. Create a Master of Accounting Systems degree program.
6. Receive AACSB reaccredidation (2007).
Enrollment
1. Increase undergraduate enrollment by 4-6% per year to a max of
2,300 by year 2007.
2. Increase graduate enrollment by 25% per year to a max of 500 by
year 2007.
3. Increase scholarships to the $170,000 level.
Operations
1. Maintain high SCH per faculty FTE, keeping within AACSB limits.
2. Keep administrative and operating costs low.

3. Expand Basic Business to a 4-year advisement center.

Personnel
1. Raise private support to fund eight chaired professorships.
2. Increase faculty and staff in alignment with meeting program,
enrollment, and operations
goals listed above.
3. Use adjunct faculty where applicable, keeping within AACSB limits.
4. Increase summer research funding for faculty.
Facilities
1. Improve faculty and administrative computing systems.
2. Upgrade all existing classrooms, including auditorium, with
furnishings and technology.
3. Increase classroom and office space to accommodate growth.
a. Build a state-of-the-art annex behind Johnson Hall with large, tiered
lecture rooms,
accounting lab rooms, and facilities for business outreach.
b. Remodel Johnson Hall fourth floor for additional large lecture
facilities.
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Business Outreach
1. Initiate a Visiting Executives Program.
2. Move the Small Business Development Center to the Chamber of
Commerce building.
3. Create a Center for Business Outreach to provide consulting,
management
development services, and software certification to business and
industry.
4. Create three funded Centers (e.g., Information Technology,
Entrepreneurship and
Family Business, Capital Markets Training Center).
5. Raise college endowment to $12,000,000.
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COLLEGE OF EDUCATION
ACADEMIC MASTER PLAN
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Our Missions Are To

1. Prepare caring, competent professionals for a diverse, technological
world in teaching,
school leadership, counseling, psychology, music and art.
2. Provide a high quality preparation program for doctoral students in
Applied Behavior
and Learning, Young Children and Families, and Literacy.
3. Ensure the success of developmental students in their majors.
4. Provide a model childhood development laboratory.

5. Provide cultural events through the Fine Arts for the Upper
Cumberland, the state and
the region.
The College of Education consists of five departmentsthree heavily
involved in the
preparation of school personnel, one heavily involved in the Fine Arts,
and one that
provides academic support to under prepared students. It is the largest
graduate college.
The College also operates three college-wide divisions. A Director
heads each division.
These are Rural Education, Teacher Education, and Technology. The
Associate Dean of
the College of Education heads the Ph.D. program in Exceptional
Learning.
Four accreditation bodies regulate programs within the College.
o National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE)
o National Association for Schools of Art and Design (NASAD)
o National Association of Schools of Music (NASM)
o National Association of School Psychologists (NASP)
Plans are to add a fifth accreditationCouncil for Accreditation of
Counseling and Related
Educational Programs (CACREP)

College-Level Goals1

Goal 1: Increase Enrollment

Name of Program: Art
Goal: Increase the number of majors and graduation rate.
Description: There are 108 majors in Art with nine faculty serving them
and
service courses in Art Appreciation.
Justification: The BFA in Art has been added to the TBR low producing
list
for monitoring. We need to address the concern.
Resources Required: None
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Programs are listed under the goal in alphabetical order.

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Name of Program: Music
Goal: To increase graduation rate.
Description: There are over 150 majors in music, but last year only 15
graduated. Our goal is to increase our graduation rate from 10%
of total majors to 15% of total majors.
Justification: The TTU Low Enrollment Committee identified a low
graduation rate as an area of concern in their report to the
President. We need to graduate students in a more timely
fashion in order to remove this concern.
Resources Required: None

Name of Program: Ph.D. Program

Goal: To match student enrollment in current tracks to faculty
resources.
Description: Stabilize enrollment in current tracks and/or adjust tracks
to
match faculty resources available to the program.
Justification: The Ph.D. program is reaching maturity and has out
performed
its targets. The program has, and is, producing high quality
graduates. Since the political and financial status of the state has
changed since the program conception, the capacity of the
faculty needs to be matched to the enrollment in the program.
Resources Required: Three new faculty lines to establish a base of at
least two Ph.D.
faculty per concentration.
Name of Program: Ph.D. Program
Goal: Explore new tracks to determine student interest and resources.
Description: Tracks in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and
Math)
and Program Planning and Evaluation have been proposed.
Justification: STEM funding is available from NSF, and doctoral level
faculty
in the Sciences and in Engineering are available on this campus
to assist. Also, this track could help the community colleges
with their need to increase the ratio of Ph.D.s on their faculties.
The Program Planning and Evaluation track could serve internal
university needs while attracting a diverse student body for
across the region.
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Resources Required: Faculty lines in Math/Science education.
Name of Program: Programs with Capacity and Need for More
Student
Enrollment
Goal: Pursue online opportunities to increase enrollment.
Description: WebCT courses.
Justification: Online courses can be used to extend our reach to
students
beyond Cookeville, serving as another avenue besides off
campus sites to increase enrollment. WebCT could serve
programs with low enrollment or those with the ability to accept
more students within the restraints of current staffing. TBR and
TTU have invested substantial resources in WebCT, making it
feasible for faculty to reach off campus to students previously
not serviced because they could not come to Cookeville or could
not take classes at times offered on campus.
Resources Required: WebCT training and laptops for faculty involved.

Name of Program: Teacher Education

Goal: Implement 2+2 on-site cohorts located on community college
campuses.
Description: Community colleges, nationally, are becoming more
interested in
hosting teacher preparation programs as demand of their
constituents, as well as news of teacher shortages, increase.
Tennessee community colleges are subject to these same
pressures, creating an opportunity for senior institutions to
become partner institutions to meet the demand. Thus far, TTU
is the only public senior institution in Tennessee responding.
Justification: In order to meet this Colleges goal of increased
enrollment to
meet the University goal of a 10,000 enrollment, we must leave
campus to take advantage of opportunities elsewhere.
Resources Required: Faculty lines, technology for candidates, facilities,
faculty
support.
Goal 2: Maintain Current Accreditation and Expand
Accreditation to Counseling.
Name of Program: Music
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Goal: To renew accreditation by NASM.
Description: Reaccredidation by NASM will require a self-study, a site
visit,
and a response to the findings from the visit.
Justification: Our music program is one of the best in the state and the
region.
The faculty are exemplary, and the graduates are highly trained
in their fields. The program accreditation should be renewed.
Resources Required: To be determined by the self-study.
Name of Program: Psychology
Goal: External program review.
Description: External reviewers from the field will conduct an intensive
program review with findings and recommendations.
Justification: Required by TBR.
Resources Required: To be determined by the review.
Goal 3. Improve Student Success
Name of Program: Teacher Education
Goal: Implement Assessment System as described in Standard 2 of the
Institutional Report.
Description: The new NCATE standards require units to summarize (in
electronic format) and analyze candidate performance data on a
systemic basis, and to use this analysis to make programmatic
decisions.

Justification: The NCATE Board of Examiners (BOE) noted that we do

not
summarize and analyze data on a regular basis. This concern
of the BOE must be removed.
Resources Required: None
Name of Program: Teacher Education
Goal: Align curricula with PRAXIS specialty examinations.
Description: Candidates for licensure are tested as they exit their
programs on
content knowledge in their specialties. Therefore, the program
faculty must continually align the program curricula with the exit
expectations.
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Justification: The new NCATE standards allow a unit to be placed on
probation anytime a content area PRAXIS exam pass rate falls
below 80%. We must continually align our curricula with
PRAXIS in order to continue excellent pass rate by our
candidates for licensure.
Resources Required: None
Name of Program: Early Childhood, Elementary Education, and
Special
Education
Goal: To infuse Spanish language and culture into programs which
prepare candidates to teach children in early grades and special
needs classes.
Description: Faculty in these programs, in consultation with faculty in
the
Department of Foreign Languages and teachers in partner
schools, will determine the means of accomplishing the goal.
Ideas include, but are not limited to, WebCT non-credit courses,
in-class guest speakers from the Hispanic community, a minor in
Spanish language and culture and multimedia presentations.
Justification: Latinos have become the largest minority in the United
States,
and Spanish-speaking children are increasing more than any
other minority in schools in our service area.
Resources Required: To be determined.
Goal 4: Implement Changes Required by No Child Left Behind
Name of Program: Elementary, Middle School, and Special
Education
Goal: To ensure that candidates for licensure are highly qualified.
Description: Programs must be aligned with content requirements that
would
make graduates highly qualified and certified.
Justification: Currently, our graduates teaching content areas in grades
seven

and eight do not meet the content requirements that would make
them highly qualified. Special Education rules are still to be
written in the IDEA reauthorization. When the new rules are
adopted, we may need to adjust special education licensure
programs to address them.
Resources Required: Faculty line in Math/Science
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Name of Program: Teacher Education
Goal: Design courses or in-service modules that would help our
graduates attain highly qualified status.
Description: Courses or in-service training both on-ground and on
WebCT,
can be designed to provide the content. This initiative will
involve Arts and Sciences departments in the core academic
areas.
Justification: Graduates of our elementary program who now teach
core
academic areas in grades seven and eight are certified, but not
highly qualified. The institution, from which they graduated,
meeting all requirements of the program at the time, owes them
the effort to help them meet the new federal requirements so they
may continue in the profession.
Resources Required: Faculty line in Math/Science. Faculty release time
or extra
compensation for workshops. Revenue from courses should
provide the funds for faculty compensation and instructional
materials.
Goal 5: Produce New Knowledge Through Faculty and Student
Research
Name of Program: All
Goal: Engage in action research involving students.
Description: Research based on identified need in the field.
Justification: As a state supported university, we have an obligation to
help
solve problems faced by our citizens and school systems. The
faculty and students can use their knowledge and talents to solve
real world situations.
Resources Required: Perhaps travel and release time.
Name of Program: All
Goal: Increase grant funding.
Description: Grant opportunities usually occur in education, the social
science
and the fine arts in service to constituents. We will create
incentives for the faculty who increase their funded service.
Justification: As a state supported university, we have an obligation to
help

solve problems faced by our citizens and school systems. The

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faculty and students can use their knowledge and talents to solve
real world situations.
Resources Required: Perhaps travel and release time.
Goal 6: Upgrade Facilities
Name of Program: Academic Development Program
Goal: Replace carpet in Foster Hall 407 and 407A
Description: Carpet description will be filed with Facilities.
Justification: The current carpet has exceeded its life expectancy, and it
is
causing hazardous hallways.
Resources Required: Will get an estimate from Facilities.
Name of Program: HPE
Goal: Upgrade electrical capacity of Memorial Gym.
Description: On file with Facilities.
Justification: The electrical capacity in Memorial Gym is limiting the use
of
areas that could be used for instruction.
Resources Required: On file with Facilities.
Name of Program: HPE
Goal: Upgrade air conditioning capacity of Memorial Gym.
Description: Air conditioning is not available for the large space
upstairs, the
smaller gym in back of the large auditorium, the dance studio
downstairs, and the classroom downstairs.
Justification: After the electrical capacity in Memorial Gym is upgraded,
it can
then support air conditioning areas that are needed for
instruction. When the chiller for the new School of Nursing is
added, that increased capacity would support air conditioning the
unusable areas of Memorial Gym.
Resources Required: On file with Facilities.
Name of Program: Music
Goal: Replace carpet on the second floor of Bryan Fine Arts Building.
Description: Carpet description already on file with Facilities.
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Justification: The carpet on the second floor is original with the
building,
which means it is now twenty-one years old. It has exceeded its
life expectancy, and it is causing hazardous hallways.
Resources Required: On file with Facilities.
Name of Program: Psychology and Special Education
Goal: Upgrade classroom furniture in classrooms in Matthews-Daniel
Hall.

Description: Replace old and broken seats with modern furniture that
fits the
needs of the students and the instruction.
Justification: Much of the furniture in classrooms in Matthews-Daniel
Hall is
of WWII vintage. Its use has expanded beyond its lifespan.
Many of the seats are split with uncomfortable seating, at best.
Resources Required: $5,000 per classroom (approximately)
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COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
ACADEMIC MASTER PLAN
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Vision
The College of Engineering will be an acknowledged leader in
engineering and technology
education.

Mission

Through education, research, and service, we will prepare our

graduates to integrate their
expertise as engineers and technologists with cultural understanding
to improve life in the
region and the world.

Core Values

We will be known for the high quality of our programs.

We will focus on teaching and learning.
We will demonstrate commitment to scholarship and the discovery and
creation of new
knowledge.
We will exhibit a strong work ethic.
Faculty, staff, and students will all exhibit personal integrity in
scholarship and personal
interactions.
Our College will be characterized by a sense of community.
We will value diversity and show respect for every individual.
A Master of Science degree in Computer Engineering is planned.
Certificate programs to meet
the needs of niche markets in engineering and technology will be
developed as appropriate.
Current degree programs will expand their customer base and their
efficacy by following the
principles listed below:
Faculty and staff will recognize that the education of students is our
core business.
We will be student centered.

Distribution of faculty and staff among the units in the College will
be guided by
student needs.
Faculty will plan for continuous improvement of curricula based on
regular review
and revision, with feedback from all constituent groups.
Degree programs will continue to meet all requirements of their
respective
accrediting agencies.
The College will be an inclusive environment where all students feel
welcome, and
where all students have the opportunity to reach their full potential.
Faculty, staff, and student relationships will be notable for their
collegial character.
Members of the College of Engineering team will be known not only
for doing
things right, but also for doing the right thing.
Interdisciplinary teaching and research will increase.
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Research and teaching activities that involve both inter-college and
intra-college
teams will increase.
The supporting role of research in the education of both
undergraduate and graduate
students will become increasingly prominent.
Faculty will strive to share their expertise in teaching and research
with a
worldwide audience through archival publication in refereed journals.
The World Wide Web will facilitate the access of remotely located
persons to
courses and degree programs in the College of Engineering.
Facilities upgrades and equipment acquisitions that serve multiple
users, or that
support both teaching and research opportunities will receive high
priority.
Overall balance between teaching and research will be encouraged
for each degree
granting program. It will be recognized that success for the College
depends on
excellence in both teaching and research. It will also be recognized that
some
faculty will make stronger contributions in teaching, and others will
make stronger
contributions in research. Both are important.

The College will be committed to service, particularly in areas where

service
activities improve the national and international reputation of the
College. Locally
focused service activities will also be supported in order to
demonstrate good
citizenship on the part of the College.
Local, national, and international partnerships with the College will
increase.
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SCHOOL OF INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES

AND EXTENDED EDUCATION
ACADEMIC MASTER PLAN

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The Academic Master Plan presented below is based on the Strategic
Planning document of the
School of Interdisciplinary Studies and Extended Education (ISEE), in
conjunction with
information provided in the Academic Five-Year Plans of all the TTU
colleges and schools.
Additional information is provided regarding interdisciplinary programs
being considered by
the school of ISEE in collaboration with various academic units. The
plan is presented in the
following order: (I) ISEE Mission, Vision, Core Values, Strategic Goals,
and Objectives, (II)
Extended Education opportunities proposed by the other
colleges/schools in their previous
Academic Master Plan documents, listed alphabetically by academic
unit, and (III)
Interdisciplinary Studies degree options currently being explored
through partnerships with
various academic units. Additional collaborative opportunities
identified by the other colleges
and schools in their updated Academic Master Plan documents will be
included as information
becomes available.
I. ISEE Mission, Vision, Core Values, Strategic Goals, and
Objectives
A. Mission/Purpose
The School of Interdisciplinary Studies and Extended Education (ISEE)
is a TTUwide
outreach and service unit committed to creating and maintaining
partnerships

with campus academic units and external entities to provide greater

access to
quality educational opportunities through a variety of delivery methods
and to
fostering and developing innovative offerings that meet the changing
needs of a
diverse population within TTUs service area and beyond.
B. Vision Statement
ISEE will aspire to be recognized as a vital partner in expanding access
to a broad
array of high quality educational alternatives for citizens in TTUs
service area and
beyond, thus impacting cultural, economic, and social growth.
C. Core Values
ISEE will be:
Student-centered in all that we do.
Market-driven and flexible in offerings and schedules.
Service-oriented and collaborative in our actions with students, faculty,
partners,
colleagues, and alumni.
Committed to lifelong learning for those we serve and for ourselves.
Dedicated to diversity of people, thoughts, and experiences.
Focused on high quality programs, continuous improvement,
accountability for
results, and efficient use of resources in educational offerings and ISEE
operations.
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D. Five-Year Goals
Goal 1 Provide greater access to higher education by increasing
credit and/or noncredit
offerings on campus and/or at off campus sites, utilizing a variety of
delivery
modes and schedules convenient times and locations to meet the
changing needs of
a diverse population.
Objectives:
1.1 Maintain and continue to enhance existing offerings.
1.2 Explore additional partnerships to foster the development of
innovative new
offerings.
1.3 Utilize current delivery modes available and continue to explore
additional
new delivery options.
1.4 Continue to develop a variety of scheduling options that meet
diverse needs of
students.

1.5 Build additional relationships with business, industry, education,

government,
and community partners to identify changing needs and consequently
respond
to those needs.
Goal 2 Utilize technology to provide distance-learning opportunities
and to serve
students effectively and efficiently.
Objectives:
1.1 Promote the development and implementation of additional
distance learning
courses and/or programs.
1.2 Partner with the Office of the Provost and Information Technology
Services
for continued support and further development of the Institute for
Technological Scholarship.
1.3 Collaborate with appropriate internal and external partners to
provide an
infrastructure for the support of various distance learning delivery
modes.
1.4 Upgrade various technologies as needed to establish and maintain
TTUs
position as a technological leader.
1.5 Explore additional internal and external partnerships for distance
learning
opportunities.
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1.6 Utilize information technology to enhance the administrative and
clerical
functions of the unit and to provide resources to staff and students at
offcampus
sites.
Goal 3 Increase collaboration with campus academic units and
external partners
to provide a broad spectrum of market-driven educational
opportunities.
Objectives:
1.1 Collaborate with campus academic units to continue existing
partnership
activities and develop new offerings.
1.2 Partner with external entities such as P-12 education, technology
centers,
community colleges, P-16 partners, business, industry, government,
and other
related entities to continue existing programs and develop new
partnership

activities.
1.3 Develop and implement methods of identifying market-driven
educational
opportunities.
Goal 4 Promote new and innovative service opportunities for TTU
faculty,
students, staff, and administrators.
Objectives:
1.1 Promote the service-related objectives identified in the TTU
Directions for
Service document.
1.2 Complete the application process for becoming a University of
Promise in
conjunction with the Putnam County Community of Promise
application.
1.3 Continue ISEE involvement with the campus Service-Learning
Committee.
1.4 Explore internal and external partnership opportunities for service
activities.
II. Extended Education Initiatives From Each College/School
A. College of Agriculture and Human Ecology
1. Strengthen articulation agreements with community colleges and
explore
cooperative arrangements to facilitate smoother transfer from
community
colleges to TTU.
2. Online Programs/Web Courses
a. Provide online course(s) leading to the Occupational Family and
Consumer Science endorsements, which would benefit FACS teachers.
Continue to identify and develop courses in other HEC concentrations
for
online/web courses.
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b. Explore Agriculture courses that can be taught effectively on the
web, and
develop a limited number of courses with this delivery system. (Dr.
Bachman in AG has already prepared two web courses and Dr. Byler
has
indicated an interest in developing one or more web courses).
c. Expand use of the web for teaching components of courses or
supplementing classroom activities.
d. Explore the possibility of offering an online Masters degree in Family
and Consumer Sciences Education (would need an additional faculty
member).
e. Position the College to offer elective courses in the RODP program if
the

opportunity arises (both AG and HEC). Dr. Bachman has already

prepared
two courses and offered to teach them as RODP elective courses.
B. College of Arts and Sciences
1. Department of Chemistry
Develop web-based Engineering Chemistry course. (We proposed the
additional offering of the above one-semester Engineering Chemistry
course
for basic engineering into a fully web-based course.)
2. Department of History
Goal: Offer selected courses online.
Description: Transform selected courses from conventional to online
format.
Justification: Respond to the needs of adult learners and enhance oncampus
learning through technology.
Resources Required: Appropriate release time and stipends.
C. College of Business Administration
1. Development of the Distance MBA
2. Development of Business Certificate Programs
D. College of Education
1. Concentrate on areas of growth that will create new enrollment, not
merely
recruit from other students already on campus in other programs. To do
this,
we must leave the campus.
2. Revenue Enhancement and Profit Centers
a. Summer camps in physical activity, motor development, home
school
programs
b. Private lessons in Music to increase revenue flow to the Department
c. Coaching certification
d. Continuing education for psychologists and counselors
e. Specialized graduate programs off campus
f. Off-campus cohorts
_ Pellissippi State (initial licensure)
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_ MAT (initial licensure)
_ Cleveland State (initial licensure)
_ Hamilton County Schools (advanced)
_ Roane State Community College Oak Ridge
3. Improve 2+2 articulation with community colleges
4. Technology for scholarship, service, and teaching
a. Provide continuous technology support and training for faculty.
b. Develop technology for distance education.
5. Curricula and programs that bring new enrollment

a. Develop off-campus cohorts at the advanced level that respond to

specific
school district needs.
b. Develop online degrees in Physical Education and Instructional
Leadership.
c. Develop Coaching Education program or certification.
d. Cooperate with TSU in bringing Ed.D. program in Instructional
Leadership.
E. College of Engineering
1. Electrical and Computer Engineering would like to explore the
possibility of
developing certificate programs in Microelectromechanical Systems,
Instrumentation, Power Systems, Telecommunications/Wireless
Systems, and
Signal Processing.
2. Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering suggest possible
certificate
programs in Quality Engineering, Project Management (jointly with the
College of Business), and Engineering Leadership.
3. Manufacturing and Industrial Technology will explore the possibility
of
adding certificate programs in Manufacturing Management and in
Advance
Manufacturing Systems. These could be done in conjunction with
eHorizon.
F. School of Nursing
1. Establish the School of Nursing as a center for lifelong learning in
health care
education and practice. Offering to include: continuing education for
nurses
and other health related professionals; create certificate programs in
school
health nursing; RN refresher program, etc.
2. Identify the scope of distributive learning strategies to prepare
baccalaureate
nurses.
3. Explore opportunities for collaborative graduate program in nursing
utilizing
distributive learning strategies.
4. Partner with community colleges and technical schools offering
associate
degree/certification programs to establish a Health Sciences/Arts in
Allied
Health (baccalaureate completion program) for radiological
technicians,
ultrasonographers, nuclear medicine technicians, dental hygienist,

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occupational therapy technicians, physical therapy assistants,
paramedics, and
other qualified health care professionals.
5. Utilize multiple distributive learning strategies, i.e., teleconferencing,
webbased
courses, and interactive television.
6. Develop online RN-to-BSN Program and other health professional
baccalaureate completions programs.
III. Interdisciplinary Studies Opportunities
A. Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies - Continue delivery
and further
development of emphasis areas with all interested academic units.
Offer online, on
campus at times convenient to adult learners, and off-campus at
strategic locations.
B. Bachelor of Science in Professional Studies - Continue delivery and
further
development. Offer online, on campus at times convenient to adult
learners, and
off-campus at strategic locations.
C. Executive Doctorate in Organizational Leadership - Develop as an
interdisciplinary
program involving the College of Business, the College of Education,
and ISEE.
D. Allied Health Bachelors Degree - Develop as an interdisciplinary
program in
conjunction with area community colleges, the School of Nursing, other
appropriate
campus academic units as identified during program development, and
ISEE.
E. Health Care Administration - Develop as interdisciplinary program
involving the
School of Nursing, the College of Business Administration, and ISEE.
F. Resource Management in Health Care - Develop as interdisciplinary
program
involving the School of Nursing, the College of Business Administration,
and ISEE.
G. Health Care Informatics - Health Care Informational Systems
Develop as
interdisciplinary program involving the School of Nursing, the College
of Business
Administration, and ISEE.
H. Nano-Science and Engineered Systems - Electrical, Computer,
Chemical, and

Mechanical Engineering will explore the possibility of teaming with

Chemistry,
Biology, and Physics to define an interdisciplinary Masters level
program.
I. Master of Science in Engineering Management - Industrial and
Manufacturing
Engineering suggest that we explore the possible addition of a degree
program.
J. Interdisciplinary Professional Masters Degree - Continue to explore
development
of the Interdisciplinary Professional Masters Degree with Arts and
Sciences
departments, such as Math, Computer Science, Geology, and Biology.
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K. Information Technology Certificate Programs and Degrees - Continue
to explore
development of additional IT certification programs and degree
offerings.
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SCHOOL OF NURSING
ACADEMIC MASTER PLAN
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VISION
TTU College of Health Sciences and Wellness will be a dynamic,
student-focused, state-oftheart learning community and an acknowledged leader in the education
of health
professionals including nursing and rural health care.
Strategic Goal 1
Develop master plan for the School of Nursing related to programmatic
offerings, building
needs, information technology requirements, laboratory and classroom
requirements, and
personnel need.
Outcomes:
1. Obtain a new facility to house the School of Nursing (and the future
College of Health
Sciences and Wellness) to include administrative space, faculty offices,
state-of-the-art
classrooms, and laboratory.
Time Line: 2005-2008
Cost: $16.5 million
2. Major software program purchases to ensure that students are
prepared to practice
nursing in the 21st Century delivery of health services.

a. Cath Sim
Time Line: 2004
Cost: $13,212 (TAF: $10,412; SONF: $2,800)
b. Computerized Mannequin
Cost: $250,000
3. Develop center for lifelong learning in health care education and
practice as a partnership
of the School of Nursing and The School of Interdisciplinary Studies and
Extended
Education
Time Line: 2005-2008
4. Develop baccalaureate completion programs for areas in allied
health i.e., X-Ray
Technology, Respiratory Therapy, etc., based on need.
5. Bachelors of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies with emphasis in
Healthcare
Management (SON and COBA).
Strategic Goal 2
Prepare exceptional nursing graduates at the baccalaureate and
graduate levels to meet the 21st
Century health care needs of the Upper Cumberland Region and
Tennessee with a focus in
rural health.
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Outcomes:
1. Establish a partnership with health care agencies to increase the
opportunities for clinical
experience to meet the anticipated demand for baccalaureate
prepared nurses in the 21st
century.
Time Line: Initiate in 2004-2005
Partnerships with: CRMC, Livingston Medical Center, Cumberland
Medical Center,
White County Community Hospital.
2. Identify the scope of distributive learning strategies to prepare
baccalaureate nurses.
Time Line: 2004-2005
RN-BSN Program Online
Consider interactive TV classes for RN-BSN Program
Consider Off-campus site for RN-BSN Program
3. Explore opportunities for a collaborative graduate program in
nursing utilizing
distributive learning strategies.
4. MSN RODP Program. Participate in consortium with the six TBR
Universities in the

development of online MSN program. TTU shall take the lead in

Community Health
Nursing (focus on Rural Health) in 2006. In addition, participate in the
Educator Track
and Administration Track.
5. Determine the need for "on-the-ground MSN program and
partnering with another TBR
University that currently has an established program.
6. Explore using Educational Benchmarking, Inc. The purpose of the
AACN/EBI
Assessment is to assist college and universities in assessing their
nursing programs in
support of continuous quality improvement objectives. Includes
Student Exit and Alumni
Survey.
Time Line: 2004-2005
Cost: $1,000 annually
Strategic Goal 3
Educational opportunities for students who are not admitted to the
upper division nursing
major because of limitation on enrollment or students who desire a
baccalaureate degree in the
other areas of health care delivery service.
Outcomes:
1. Bachelors of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies with emphasis in
HealthCare
Management (SON and COBA)
Time Line: 2005
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2. Interdisciplinary committee to collaborative to establish additional
health care service
majors at the baccalaureate level.
Time line: 2005
3. Collaborate with community colleges and technical schools offering
associate/certificate
programs to establish a Health Sciences/Arts in Allied Health
(baccalaureate completion
program) for qualified health care professionals.
Time Line: 2005
Strategic Goal 4
Maximize utilization of technology to enhance teaching and learning
environment in health
related programs.
Outcomes:
1. Utilize multiple distributive learning strategies, i.e., teleconferencing,
web-based courses,

and interactive television.

Time Line: 2004-2007
2. Online RN-to-BSN Program and other health professional
baccalaureate completion
programs.
Time Line: 2005
Strategic Goal 5
Create a Center of Excellence in rural health care to include a nursing
chair of excellence to
enhance opportunities for faculty practice and research productivity.
Outcomes:
1. Create a Center of Excellence in rural health care to include a
nursing chair of excellence
to enhance opportunities for faculty practice and research productivity.
Time Line: 2008
2. Establish partnerships with health care agencies to enhance
research opportunities with
the health care community and the local community.
Time Line: 2008
10-Year Strategic Goal
Establish College of Health Sciences and Wellness with the following
Schools:
School of Nursing
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BSN: Generic, RN to BSN
Graduate: MSN, ADN to MSN
School of Community Health and Health Related Professions
Community Health Education
Rural Health
School Health
Environmental Studies
Occupational Safety and Health
Case Management: Womens Health, Family Health, Gerontology
(Interdepartmental Program with Sociology/Social Work)
Health Sciences/Arts (BS completion program)
Radiology, Respiratory Therapy, Physical Therapy etc
School of Health Care Administration
(Interdisciplinary Program with College of Business Administration)
Health Care Administration
Resource Management in Health Care
Health Care Informatics/Health Care Informational Systems
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RESEARCH AND GRADUATE STUDIES

ACADEMIC MASTER PLAN
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MISSION
The mission of the Office of Research and Graduate Studies is to
support the three main facets
of the university mission (teaching, research and service) by providing
leadership and guidance
in the acquisition and administration of grants and contracts, and by
supporting and fostering
the quality and quantity of graduate education.

VISION

Tennessee Tech University will become a regional leader in

technological education through
research and graduate education, while attaining and sustaining the
classification of
Doctoral/Research Universities-Intensive under the Carnegie
Classification of Institutions of
Higher Education.

GOALS

A. Provide leadership and guidance in the acquisition and

administration of grants and
contracts by implementing the following strategies:
1. Develop a database of faculty research profile, and match faculty
expertise with
solicitations for grant proposals.
2. Form focus groups of faculty with similar and/or complementary
expertise and
interests, and spearhead the development of collaborative proposals.
3. Form consortia with other institutions, federal laboratories, and
industry to pursue
block grants.
4. Assist in seeking federal appropriation for projects that enhance the
unique strengths
of the University.
5. Conduct proposal development workshops and seminars and assist
faculty in proposal
writing.
6. Prepare and negotiate grants and contracts.
7. Ensure compliance with federal and state regulations on grants and
contracts.
8. Execute patents and copyrights applications.
9. Foster the transfer to industry of technology developed in the
University.
B. Enhance the quality and quantity of graduate education by
implementing the following
strategies:
1. Recruit high quality graduate students into the graduate program.

2. Seek fellowships to support high quality graduate students.

3. Increase the diversity of the graduate student population by
targeting recruitment
efforts to predominantly minority institutions.
4. Develop and implement graduate program review that is based on
outcomes
assessment.
5. Encourage the participation of high quality undergraduate students
in research as a
means of encouraging them to pursue graduate education.
6. Develop and implement plans to mentor graduate students in order
to improve
graduate student retention and success.
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ANGELO AND JENNETTE VOLPE

LIBRARY AND MEDIA CENTER
ACADEMIC MASTER PLAN
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VISION STATEMENT
The Volpe Library strives to be an approachable, accessible
organization that is sensitive to the
needs of all users while providing a positive learning experience and
fostering excitement in
the process of discovery. To accomplish this we will be a serviceoriented organization staffed
by avid learners who evaluate and organize information, provide
instruction, and fulfill the
information needs of the University community without regard to space
or time.

CORE VALUES

We value exemplary service.

We value patience, respect, and kindness toward all individuals.
We value education and autonomous critical thinking.
We value the power of human interaction in nurturing intellectual
exploration and growth.
We value the importance of information in improving the quality of
peoples lives.
We value academic and intellectual freedom.
We value information in all useful and relevant forms.
We value a perpetually learning staff.
We value the preservation of knowledge.
We value operating in accordance with professional ethics and relevant
law.
We value communication and cooperation within the Library and
throughout the University

community.

MISSION STATEMENT
The mission of the Volpe Library is to advance and support the mission
of Tennessee
Technological University by providing access to dynamic information
resources within and
beyond its walls through a balance of traditional and innovative
services. In an atmosphere of
diversity and equality, the Library fosters an environment that enriches
instruction, scholarship,
creativity, public service, and lifelong learning for Techs faculty,
students, and staff in oncampus,
RODP, and all other distance education programs. The Library collects
and preserves
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materials relevant to the history of the University and the Upper
Cumberland Region and offers
library services to all with a commitment to Tennesseans, especially
the people of the Upper
Cumberland.

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

The goals of the Library in the pursuit of its mission are to provide the
library materials,
services, and facilities necessary to support the Universitys
instructional programs; to keep
faculty current in their disciplines; to meet student course and noncourse-related library needs;
to acquire, organize, and preserve historical materials relevant to the
Upper Cumberland; and
to provide library services and materials to the non-university
community of the region as
resources allow. The Library pursues these goals through the objectives
of acquiring,
organizing, and maintaining the requisite equipment and materials in
their various formats;
providing instruction and direction in the use of library materials and
facilities; and by creating
a physical environment conducive to user needs and media
requirements. The stated goals and
objectives of the Library are:
I. To Provide the Quantity and Types of Library Materials
Necessary to Support the
Universitys Instructional and Research Mission
A. To insure that the materials the Library acquires meet in priority
order the purposes

of: (1) supporting student and faculty scholarships relative to the

curricula; (2)
contributing to the maintenance of a current general reference
collection; (3)
keeping faculty current in their disciplines; (4) providing students
recreational
materials for reading, listening, and viewing.
B. To provide additional resources and means of access to resources
through
interlibrary loan and through the World Wide Web.
II. To Make Materials Accessible by Controlling Them
Bibliographically, Organizing
Them Into Collections, and Maintaining Means to Access Them
A. To establish bibliographic control over locally held materials
including books,
government publications, audiovisual media, and remotely accessible
electronic
publications.
B. To maintain for all formats a means of access which provides a
record of each
uniquely available item by author and/or title and group such items by
common
subject according to accepted standards and practice.
C. To organize all formats from books to websites into collections by
classifying them
according to the Library of Congress Classification System and by
following the
Library of Congress practice for call number construction.
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D. To maintain means of access to periodicals that makes them readily
retrievable in
their various formats.
E. To organize federal government publications into a separate
collection according to
the Superintendent of Documents Classification System and to
maintain holdings
and receipt records according to Government Printing Office
regulations.
III. To provide Direct Public Service that Supports the Search
for Information and
Ideas by University Students, Faculty, and Staff, Regardless of
the Format of the
Resources or the Location of the Library User
A. To provide reference service on site and online that answers users
requests for

needed information, offers instruction in finding information and

evaluating
resources, and gives students the encouragement they need to
overcome their fear of
research and find the sense of discovery that encourages them to want
to pursue
ideas and information independently.
B. To support the development of information literacyan intellectual
framework for
understanding, finding, evaluating, and using informationin Tech
students on and
off-campus through a variety of methods including classroom
instruction, library
tours, Web-based interactive tutorials, instructional support embedded
in electronic
resources (help screens, pop-ups, etc.), Internet guides, library guides,
and
individualized instruction at the point of use (e.g. Reference Desk,
Media Center,
Special Collections).
C. To provide an interlibrary loan service that obtains requested
resources not
available in the Librarys physical or electronic collections and gets
these materials
to Tech student and faculty requestors, on and off-campus.
D. To provide for circulation of materials outside the building, maintain
borrowing
status information for all materials, maintain records for all borrower
accounts, and
insure return of borrowed materials, mailing materials to off-campus
faculty and
students when necessary.
E. In a library with open stacks to keep materials re-shelved quickly
and review
accuracy of shelving for easy patron access in the circulating book
collection and in
the magazine and journal collection, microfiche, microfilm, microcard,
reference,
periodical indexes, special collections, government publications, and
media
collections.
F. To maintain a collection of course-related materials put on reserve by
faculty,
circulate them to students, and maintain borrowing status information
on all
materials and borrower records.

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G. To maintain a Web site that provides access to the librarys catalog,
remote access
databases and electronic journals, reference service, instruction,
interlibrary loan,
patron record, and requests for services, including special services for
off-campus
faculty and students.
H. To provide access, library instruction, reference service, and
promotion of federal
government publications regardless of format, including assistance in
borrowing
publications, from regional or other libraries through interlibrary loan
and
assistance with government-related Web sites.
IV. To Have the Facilities and Technology Necessary for the
Effective Utilization of
Library Resources
A. To plan physical arrangement of furniture to be ADA compliant.
B. To plan and execute the physical arrangement of library services to
facilitate service
and access.
C. To acquire technologies for library service operations.
D. To acquire new technologies needed by patrons to access Webbased information
sources.
E. To maintain paper and microform copy machines for public use.
F. To maintain exit security to protect library materials.
G. To provide media equipment and maintain such equipment.
H. To provide technologies so that persons with disabilities can use
library materials.
V. To Maintain an Organizational Structure and Operation
Conducive to the Effective
Pursuit of the Librarys Mission
A. To maintain and develop an effective library staff.
B. To guarantee fiscal responsibility in expending appropriated library
funds.
C. To monitor and adjust departmental staffing patterns as needed.
D. To foster effective internal library communication.
E. To maintain communications between the Library and the University
community.
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VI. To Participate in and Contribute to Local, State, Regional,
and National
Cooperative Library Activities

A. To enter library holdings into the OCLC database and agreed upon
reciprocal
databases.
B. To retain membership in the Southeastern Library Network
(SOLINET) and the
State Board of Regents Media Consortium.
C. To fill interlibrary loan requests from other libraries expeditiously.
D. To participate in other types of resource sharing as is feasible.
E. Support TENN-SHARE and similar endeavors.
F. To enter into interlibrary loan reciprocal borrowing agreements with
individual
libraries and library consortia.
VII. To Acquire, Organize, and Preserve Historical Materials
Relevant to the History of
the Upper Cumberland Region
A. To locate and acquire publications, documents and manuscripts for
the Regional
History collection; to organize and index these materials; to make them
available
for on-site research; and to support use by providing reference service
and group
instruction.
B. To collect materials of legal, fiscal, and historical significance to the
University and
surrounding region for University Archives; to preserve and organize
them; to make
them available for on-site research; and to support their use by
providing
individualized assistance and group instruction.
C. To digitize and mount on the Librarys Web site those historical
collections of most
significance to Tennesseans.
VIII. To Provide Library Services and Materials to the NonUniversity Community of the
Region as Resources Allow
A. To provide open access to the librarys online catalog and links to
recommended
Web sites and the Tennessee Electronic Library.
B. To allow access to the Library and its physical collections.
C. To grant borrowing privileges to the citizens of Tennessee.
D. To give reference desk support for research to non-TTU users.
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E. To provide library instruction or tours for high school classes and
other groups of
the region.

F. To provide limited access to Internet resources to non-TTU users for

their research
needs.
G. To provide free access, library instruction, reference service, and
promotion of
federal government publications regardless of format to the public in
the 6th
Congressional District of Tennessee, including assistance in borrowing
publications
from regional or other libraries, free Web access to government-related
sites, and
free computer printing from those sites.

Strategic Plan

To meet the goals and objectives of the Library in pursuit of its mission,
the Library has
developed the projects that follow. Central to these is the definition
and implementation of a
virtual library.
A. Projects Relative to the Virtual Library
1. Achieve stable materials budget.
2. Replace hardcopy indexing for journals with information-rich
electronic databases
including some full text article access.
3. Contract management service for electronic journals.
4. Increase the number of public computers.
5. Convert print journals to electronic format.
6. Mount highly interactive electronic reference collections.
7. Acquire electronic book collections.
8. Add high-impact databases that enrich the collection of electronic
research
databases.
9. Acquire library automation system.
10. Recruit systems administrator for the Library.
11. Launch new library Web site design (using Dreamweaver software)
12. Establish virtual reference service.
13. Develop Web-based learning environments.
14. Automate the interlibrary loan/researcher interface and interlibrary
loan
procedures management.
15. Digitize and provide Web access to choice archival collections.
B. Projects Designed to Improve Services to Students and Faculty and
to Meet Commitment
to the Upper Cumberland Region.
1. Construct classroom for library instruction.
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2. Restore research journals cut in 1992, 1997, and 1999.

3. Develop a fully functioning TV/video studio with sets and with multiformat nonlinear
editing and digital editing capacity.
4. Improve the technical presentation capacity of the large group
viewing room.
5. Construct storage for archival materials.
6. Construct storage area for surplus property.
Name: Stable Materials Budget (A.1.)
Goal: Achieve a stable materials budget so that the library resources
required
to support students learning and faculty research may be acquired.
Description: Set an adequate base budget for the various formats of
library materials
and increase that amount yearly by the inflation rate of the respective
material. Journals have been running an annual inflation rate of 10
percent and books an 8 percent rate for many years.
Justification: Without adequate library materials, research and learning
cannot be
supported. Without adequate money, such materials cannot be
acquired.
There appears to be no abatement in the rise in cost of scholarly
materials.
Resources Required: In fiscal 2003-2004 the Library should have had:
$250,000 for electronic databases
750,000 for journals
400,000 for restored research journals
$1,400,000 Total
200,000 for allocation to the Colleges
200,000 for Library selections
$400,000 Total
$1,800,000 TOTAL
For 2004-2005, the $1,400,000 will inflate at 10 percent or $140,000
and
the $400,000 will inflate at 8 percent or $32,000 for a total increase of
$172,000. This is a daunting figure given the present budget situation.
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Name: Replace Hardcopy Indexing for Journals with
Information-Rich
Electronic Databases Including Some Full Text Article Access
(A.2.)
Goal: To provide electronic versions of indexes and abstracts in support
of
distance education and on-campus programs and research.
Description: Acquire the electronic versions of the most frequently
used indexes and
abstracts still held only in print. Titles given below.

Please note these titles reflect what is available in 2003 and will
require
revision as other resources become available.
Justification: The Tech community needs timely access to the indexing
tools whether
a student is working off-campus, or a researcher is working in another
office. The indexes provide a means of identifying needed research
articles, and in most cases, a link to the article in electronic format.
Resources Required: Applied Science and Technology Index (Wilson) $
5,335
Art Index (Wilson) 5,335
Biography Index (Wilson) 2,449
Biological and Agricultural Index (Wilson) 3,662
Book Review Digest (Wilson) 2,231
General Science Index (Wilson) 4,050
Historical Abstracts 6,615
Humanities Index (Wilson) 4,899
Social Sciences Index (Wilson) 4,899
Subtotal $39,475
Less cancelled paper subscription -14,701
TOTAL $24,774
Name: Management Service for Electronic Journals (A.3.)
Goal: Provide faculty and students access to the librarys electronic
subscriptions and the catalog holdings records for print subscriptions.
Description: A management service provides access to electronic
journals by title or
subject. Such systems also integrate print subscription information
allowing the user to go to the source needed regardless of format.
These
systems further provide links to individual articles from citations in
bibliographic databases. If the Library does not own the articles, a link
to a pay-per-article is provided or a link for interlibrary loan. Use data is
compiled by the systems.
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Justification: Access to individual electronic journals is difficult,
especially in an everchanging
environment. Maintaining access to over 5,000 titles is
impossible for an individual library without a considerable information
technology staff. Even if a large IT staff were possible, it would not be
cost effective to reinvent the access wheel. Even if we could maintain
links to all the titles URLs, many require passwords for their use.
Managing the password access and constant password changes for
titles
is a difficult task, much less keeping students and faculty informed of
which passwords to use. The serials management system solves many
of

these problems and gives existing staff an excellent tool to use.

Resources Required: For TTU, the cost of a title management system
varies from $2,000 to
$5,000. Adding an article-linking feature would cost an additional
$5,000. We plan to acquire the basic system in fiscal 2003-04 at a cost
of $2,500. Article-linking service to be added in fiscal 2005-06 or
sooner if possible.
Name: Increase the Number of Public Computers (A.4.)
Goal: Provide greater access to electronic resources for library users.
Description: Add fourteen computers in carrels parallel to existing
public computers.
These computers provide access to the librarys collection of print and
electronic resources as well as resources on the Web. They are not
functional laboratory computers like those in the Media Center.
Justification: The existing computers are often all in use. Additional
electronic
resources require additional access capability.
Resources Required: The existing computers are recycled from
laboratory computers which
were initially purchased with TAF money. Without such an
arrangement for these additional fourteen, this project would not be
possible. There is the cost for electrical and network wiring and the
poles to hold both. Estimated cost is less than $1,000.
Name: Convert Print Journals to Electronic Format (A.5.)
Goal: Convert at least one-half of the 2,110 journals received in paper
to
electronic form in five years.
Description: Electronic journals are provided by different mechanisms
determined by
the publisher. Some titles must be accessed directly through the
publisher and some must be accessed through a vendor. A service to
manage this complexity is required.
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Justification: Electronic journals are needed to provide 24/7 access to
on and offcampus
faculty and students. E-journals will eliminate some types of
library handling and processing, but new ones are created by the
electronic format. Journals to support the off-campus education
program will be the first priority followed by Nursing, Science, and
Engineering in that order. To acquire slightly over 1,000 titles in
electronic format will require almost that many license agreements.
Acquiring these will be a formidable task. The TBR Library Deans and
Directors Group is seeking help from TBR legal council with this license
problem.
Resources Required: Any estimate of the cost difference between ejournals and print is

impossible at this time. We simply cannot get the data from our
vendor.
Other TBR libraries are having the same experience. We do not know
why. One thing is certain, e-journals will not cost less than the print,
maybe more. A combination of print and electronic subscription for one
title costs considerably more when a back-file in electronic form is
required. An addition of an electronic subscription to a print one often
includes one year of a back-file free.
Name: Mount Highly Interactive Electronic Reference
Collections (A.6.)
Goal: To provide reference materials in electronic/computerized
formats to
support distance education and off-campus programs.
Description: To acquire reference materials in electronic format to
support distance
education, off-campus students and faculty, and to make reference
resources available to a greater number of students and faculty at all
hours. Recommended titles are listed under Resources Required.
Justification: The above resources would enable a greater number of
library users to
access the Reference Collection from either on or off campus and 24
hours a day. This access would greatly enhance the distance education
program, as well as be beneficial to all students and faculty. The
materials listed above are, for the most part, some of the most useful
or
frequently used reference sources.
Resources Required: ASTM Standards Online. (ASTM International)
$12,000
Beilstein Crossfire plus Reactions.
(Beilstein Info. Systems) 5,309
Biography Reference Bank. (H.W. Wilson) 4,090
Britannica Online. (Britannica.com, Inc.) 3,337
CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. 1,295
Encyclopedia Americana Online & Multimedia.
(Grolier Interactive, Inc.) 2,928
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Essay & General Literature Index. (H.W. Wilson) 935
Facts on File World New Digest. (Facts on File) 2,950
Health and Psychosocial Instruments. [HAPI] 1,455
Hoovers Online. (Hoovers.com) 1,995
Industry Norms & Key Business Ratios.
(Dun & Bradstreet) 3,173
Leadership Directories (Yellow Books)
(Leadership Directories, Inc.) 3,345
Merck Index Online. (Dialog or STN) 925
Mergent Online. (Mergent, formerly Moodys) 7,000

Oxford English Dictionary Online.

(Oxford Univ. Press) 1,501
Oxford Reference Online: The Core Collection.
(Oxford U. Pr.) 1,515
Perrys Chemical Engineers Handbook. 2,000
Short Story Index. (H.W. Wilson) 615
Testing and Education Reference Center. (Gale) 8,500
World Atlas Online. (Facts on File) 1,030
World Book Encyclopedia Online. (World Book.com) 2,628
Subtotal $68,526
Less cancelled paper subscription -22,060
TOTAL $46,466
Name: Electronic Books (A.7.)
Goal: To provide electronic books in support of distance education and
oncampus
programs.
Description: Acquire a collection of electronic books in computer
science in fiscal
2003-04. In 2004-05, acquire a collection of non-fiction electronic
books.
Justification: Where available, students have liked electronic books, and
such books
are needed to support off-campus programs.
Resources Required: In fiscal 2003-04, $2,500 will be spent from
current library funds. By
2004-05, $10,000 will be needed for the second collection.
Name: Add High Impact Databases that Enrich the Collection of
Electronic
Research Databases. (A.8.)
Goal: To provide Tech faculty and students with additional electronic
databases that support the research mission of the University.
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Description: Acquire electronic full-text versions of Techs major remote
access
databases as they become available and acquire specialized remote
access databases for subject areas in which Tech researchers are most
active. It will be necessary to coordinate this activity with acquisition of
e-journals to minimize duplication.
Recommended titles are listed under Resources Required.
Please note these recommendations are a reflection of what is
available
in 2003 and will require revision as other resources become available.
Justification: Full-text versions of remote access databases provide text
and often
graphics for research materials identified only by citation in remote
searches making it unnecessary for a researcher to come to the Library

to get materials or wait for the Library to borrow them from another
library. Specialized remote access databases save researchers in
interdisciplinary studies from having to search through multiple
databases to identify all relevant materials, often list more ephemeral
materials not covered in large databases, or provide citation
indexing.
Resources Required: Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts $ 7,025
Bio One 3,649
CINAHL 1,770
GEOBASE 6,413
Inspec 16,777
LexisNexis Academic 12,014
LexisNexis Congressional 3,379
LexisNexis Statistical 1,802
Project Muse 10,000
PsycArticles 9,750
Web of Science 72,742
Wilson Humanities 3,645
Wilson Social Sciences 3,645
J-Stor Five collections, $58,500 first year; 58,500
$12,500 yearly thereafter (J-Stor could reduce
some of the cost of Project No. B.2.)
TOTAL $211,111
Name: Library Automation System (A.9.)
Goal: Acquire a second-generation library automation system.
Description: The new library management system, as does the existing
one, manages
and automates the various library functions including circulation,
acquisitions, bibliographic control, serials management, authority
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control, finding aid for traditional library collections, etc. Newer
systems expand the range of functions to include things such as: data
streaming, ADA compliancy, digital media archiving, union holdings
listing, binding, etc. This enhanced library management system will
improve library services to the University community and the
educational/research experiences of its clientele by serving as a portal
to
library subscribed and other Web information sources. Newer systems
are more user-friendly.
Justification: SIRSI Corporation now owns Data Research Associates
(DRA), the
original provider of the library automation system. SIRSI will not
improve the DRA system and says it will maintain it only so long. Our
client community colleges are pressuring us to change to a system that
is
more user-friendly and has more features.

Resources Required: $100,000 to $300,000 depending upon the library

automation vendor.
Money in the amount needed for the SIRSI product has been
designated
from the Technology Access Fee and approved by the Tennessee Board
of Regents as an Information Technology Project in the 2003-04 budget
year. The SIRSI cost is at least $100,000 below comparable products.
SIRSI wants to keep the DRA client base.
Name: Recruit Systems Administrator for the Library (A.10.)
Goal: Create a full-time, professional position on the library staff for a
Computer Systems Administrator.
Description: The person in this position would have the primary
responsibility of
managing and maintaining the technology demands of all automated
systems used by the Library. Also, an important function of this
position would be to ensure that the Library utilizes the latest
technology
to support and promote the programs of the University.
Justification: Technology is now an essential component of library
service and
information resources. Both on-campus and off-campus faculty and
students rely on computer access to the Library. It is imperative that
the
Library provides reliable and consistent performance with the
computer
systems. This is best accomplished by having a professional person on
the library staff that has experience with library systems, can maintain
and update computer programs, and can coordinate the technical
requirements of the many different information suppliers, programs,
and
equipment.
Resources Required: The Library would need to incorporate continuing
funding for this
position for salary ($40,000 - $50,000 range) and benefits. Initially,
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funds would be necessary to set up an office with the necessary
computer equipment (approximately $3,500). The overall degree of
responsibility written into the job description along with the
qualifications and experience required would determine the level of
salary for the position.
Name: Launch New Library Web Site Design (Using
Dreamweaver
Software) (A.11.)
Goal: Update and improve the librarys Web site design and Web site
organization of resources and services.

Description: Design a new interface for the librarys Web site that
incorporates the
latest in Web site functionality and complements the design of the new
University home page. Present the content in an effective and efficient
way for users to access information.
Justification: Information resources are increasingly made available
electronically.
Faculty and students have increasing expectations of online access
to
information. To accommodate the fast-changing information
environment, it is necessary to use the latest in Web design and
technology to utilize resources and to provide the highest level of
service
possible to faculty and students. The current Web site design was
generally created in 1998 utilizing Microsoft FrontPage and following
the design features of the TTU home page. Now that TTU has launched
its new Web site home page design, the Library also needs to update
its
Web site. The TTU Web Director recommends using Macromedia
Dreamweaver software (what she used with the new TTU home page)
for this redesign and will provide coding and design assistance utilizing
Dreamweaver. Also, federal law requires that the library Web site meet
section 508 accessibility standards, and this program includes a
function
that scans and verifies that the Web pages meet these standards.
Resources Required: The resources most necessary for this project are
staff and staff time,
primarily the Web site committee and Web site coordinator, to
accomplish the project. The planning, page building, testing, launching,
and training involved requires a great deal of work. Finding time for
this project while meeting all other on-going responsibilities will
perhaps require adjusting some regular staff tasks or adding a
temporary,
part-time staff person to assist with reference desk hours so regular
staff
will have time to commit to the project. An additional helpful resource
is funding (approximately $300) and professional development time for
the library Web site coordinator to take a course to learn more about
using Dreamweaver.
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Name: Establish Virtual Reference Services (A.12.)
Goal: Acquire technology to provide means of virtual reference.
Description: Provide virtual reference to on and off-campus students
using a variety
of different technologies including interactive computer software
programs, the Web and telephone.

Justification: It is a part of the Volpe Librarys mission statement to

foster an
environment that enriches instruction, scholarship, creativity, public
service and lifelong learning for Techs faculty, students and staff in
oncampus,
RODP, and all other distance education programs. As with
other Student Services Departments at TTU, Volpe Library has been
charged with providing the same services to distance education
students
as to on campus students.
Distance Education programs at TTU campus-based and TBR-based
(RODP) are increasing.
There is a high demand for virtual library electronic resources during
non-business hours.
According to the latest statistics (compiled 12/13/01-9/17/03)
RODP students access RODP Virtual Library frequently after
regular business hours.
The highest RODP Virtual Library activity is between 8-9pm
each weekday night.
Resources Required: Extra librarian and/or staff time and training.
$350 for installation and at least $17 monthly* for a library toll free
telephone number.
$10,00-17,000 to purchase round-the-clock Virtual Reference software
packages from one of the following companies:
QuestionPoint (from the Library of Congress)
24/7 Reference (247Ref.org)
Virtual Reference ToolKit (formerly LSSI) and/or VRT Express
$3,000 to purchase new Reference Computers with special
configurations to support software:
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Pentium 300 MHz multimedia PC (or better) with 128 MB or
more
Microsoft Internet Explorer (IE) 5.01 with Service Pack 2 or
higher
Microsoft Windows 98, 2000, NT Workstation 4.0 with Service
Pack 6, XP Professional or XP Home
$300 to purchase Computer peripherals:
Video camera preferably Winnow, Logitech or Intel
equipped with PCT card
Microphone preferably Plantronics Duo with echo
cancellation and PC adapter Speakers and/or headset equipped
with MX10 switcher
*This estimate is only current for 9/03 TTU Telecommunications
Service is currently renegotiating contracts.
Total Initial = $18,650

Total Yearly = $204

Name: Develop Web-based Learning Environments (A.13.)
Goal: Acquire technology and training to provide Web-based learning
environments.
Description: Provide virtual, interactive instruction to on and offcampus students via
the Web.
Justification: Distance Education programs at TTU campus-based and
TBR-based
(RODP) are increasing.
Off-campus students frequently access the Web for online library
information and resources.
According to the latest statistics, the RODP Virtual Library
receives an average of 145 hits per day.
According to the latest statistics, Volpe Librarys website
receives an average of 1,014 hits per day.
Online learning environment software would provide library faculty the
technology for immediate instructional evaluation and assessment.
Resources Required: Extra library staff and faculty time.
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TTUs Institute for Technological Scholarship for access to and training
for instructional software programs.
Appropriate access to Texas Information Literacy Tutorial (TILT) for
ideas and/or adaptation.
$3,000 to purchase a new library server to house Web-based learning
environments locally.
Name: Automate the Interlibrary Loan/Researcher Interface
and
Interlibrary Loan Procedures Management (A.14.)
Goal: To provide automated interlibrary loan requesting service for Tech
researchers and automated borrowing and lending management for
the interlibrary loan department.
Description: Acquire and install OCLC ILLiad software and train staff in
its use.
Justification: Decreases the time researchers use to make interlibrary
loan requests,
which can be accomplished by clicking Web buttons instead of typing
citations, when used with OCLCs WorldCat and FirstSearch databases
(24/7).
Provides capability for researchers to track the status of their requests,
reserving department staff time for obtaining materials quickly instead
of answering status questions.
Makes materials available to researchers more quickly by automating
many departmental tasks, including e-mail notification of requestor
when material is available, paper filing, determination of copyright
royalty payments, compilation of statistics, and preparation of some

bills.
Supports distance education by sending patrons PDF formattedarticles.
Resources Required: In the first year, costs are $1,200 for installation
and $4,000 for
subscription fee; in subsequent years costs are $4,000 for subscription
fee.
Name: Digitize and Provide Web Access to Choice Archival
Collections
(A.15.)
Goal: Provide Web access to University Archives collections of high
historical
value to Techs distance education students, to historians, and to
residents of the Upper Cumberland and the state of Tennessee.
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Description: Select archival documents of most interest to off-campus
researchers,
scan them, store data on CD-ROM, and mount the digitized documents
on the Web, perhaps as part of the Tennessee Electronic Library
project.
Justification: Web-based documents will provide greatly increased
access to archival
collections for off-campus students and for historians working on the
history of the Upper Cumberland and Tennessee Tech. The digitized
form is not considered a preservation means, but supports
preservation
by providing access without user handling of the original document.
Resources Required: Staff and equipment for this project are currently
available, but updated
equipment will be needed within two years. For the second year of the
project, an updated desktop computer system at $1,500 and flatbed
scanner at an estimated $300 should be acquired.
Name: Construct Classroom for Library Instruction (B.1.)
Goal: Have space for teaching students how to use library resources
after space
was lost to food services.
Description: Classroom approximately thirty by thirty-two feet on Level
3 of the
Library. Such space will allow sixteen tables having two computers per
table with space for the instructor and projector screen at the front. It
is
hoped that wireless computers can be used. A TAF request for these
computers was made for fiscal 2003-04.
Justification: In fiscal 2002-03, library faculty instructed 1,953
individuals in 103

groups on how to use library resources. Forty-seven of these

individuals
in five groups were from area high schools. One group of twelve was
home-schooled. Most of the TTU students and groups were from the
freshman English classes, but groups came from all the TTU colleges
except Nursing.
Once we have a stable reference staff, which we have not had in a
number of years, we would like to promote this activity with the TTU
faculty. In an information society information literacy is the key to
survival and prosperity.
Such instruction is much more productive when held in the Library. Use
instruction is often combined with an orientation to the locations of
resources within the building. Even when many resources are available
remotely, students need to be taught that they are available and how
to
use them.
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Resources Required: Computers, network connections, and room
construction.
1. Twenty wireless computers on a Dell Cart $33,000
2. Cost of the room is according to the TTU 18,500
facilities planner
3. Wireless connectivity 1,458
TOTAL $52,958
Name: Restore Research Journals Cut in 1992, 1997 and 1999
(B.2.)
Goal: Improve library support of faculty research.
Description: In 1992, 1997, and 1999, a total of 719 journal
subscriptions were
stopped. At least one-half of these need to be restored to support
faculty
research. Most of the titles cut were research journals. Selection of the
titles to restore would be made by the faculty. Whether the
subscription
is in print or electronic would be based on faculty and library decision.
Justification: If research by the TTU faculty is expected and if that
research is to be
advanced, library-held research materials are needed. No library can
fully support the research of its faculty. The goal of the Volpe Library
has been to serve as a seedbed for faculty research and to help faculty
stay current in their disciplines. The Library has not met its goals as a
seedbed since the journal cuts. The Library receives a great deal of
materials via interlibrary loan. To receive materials, a library must also
supply. The supply side for the TTU Library has declined. This can
only harm both the supply we receive and the supply we receive
through

reciprocal no-charge agreements.

Resources Required: The cost of the 719 journals cut in the three years
totaled $317,287.
Using a 10 percent inflation factor, those 719 titles would cost around
$687,192 today. To restore one-half would cost $343,596. The actual
cost would probably be around $400,000 if research titles are targeted.
Name: TV/Video Studio (B.3.)
Goal: To have a fully functioning TV/video studio with sets and with
multiformat
non-linear editing and digital linear editing capacity.
Description: Software is needed for inserting jump and motion backs as
well as text
into video. Equipment needs include four-head stereo VCR;
progressivescan
DVD video recorder; multi-region DVD player that will also
play CD / MP3 / CD-R / CD-RW; A/V switcher; and an all-in-one
printer/fax/scanner/copier.
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[The all-in-one has slots to accept memory drives from digital cameras
for importing photos directly into PC. Also, the scanner portion can be
used to import regular photos to be edited.]
Sets will be built in-house.
Justification: Students are increasingly requiring proficiency in creating
digital media
components in their projects and presentations. The present editing
deck
is limited to analog format. The studio at present has no sets.
Analog and VHS formats are rapidly becoming obsolete. The DVD
recorder is required to reformat materials that would otherwise
become
useless.
Resources Required: Equipment cost $2,500
Name: Large Group Viewing Room (B.4.)
Goal: To improve the technical capacity of the large group viewing
room.
Description: Acquire an A/V speaker system and a HD 52-inch or larger
flat screen
plasma TV with input for computer.
Justification: This room is heavily used by graduate and undergraduate
classes. The
current equipment is over 10 years old. Both picture quality and sound
quality are barely adequate, and the current television is not capable
of
receiving high-definition transmissions. A large screen TV with high
picture resolution would eliminate the need for an LCD projector for
this

room.
Resources Required: Equipment cost $7,000
Name: Storage for Archival Materials (B.5.)
Goal: Provide suitable storage to preserve historical materials of the
Upper
Cumberland Region and Tennessee Technological University.
Description: Two Options:
1. Construct a room in unexcavated area of the Volpe Library across
the hall from the present Archives.
2. Put movable shelving in a secure cage in Room 120 of the Media
Center.
Justification: Option 1 is the most desirable because it is a large area
and climate
control for it and the existing archives is included. Climate control is
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poor in the existing Archives and will not be any better in option 2.
Additional space for storage is needed because the present area is full.
Some materials have had to be returned to University offices to free
space for more valuable historical materials.
Resources Required: Option 1 will cost $396,500 according to the TTU
facilities planner.
Option 2 will cost $50,000 by my estimate.
Name: Storage Area for Surplus Property (B.6.)
Goal: Provide storage for surplus property to replace area presently
used. The
Fire Marshall has said this area cannot be used as it now is.
Description: Construct a fire-rated room in the unexcavated area of the
Volpe Library
in B-Wing.
Justification: The Library has many pieces of furniture and equipment
that could be
needed. To send these items to surplus would be a loss to the Library.
Also stored are the wooden book trucks used to move into this
building.
In the new building, these have been used for major shifts of library
books and for removal of materials during emergencies. They have
also
been loaned to area libraries for various purposes.
Required Resources: Based on the costs from facilities for the new
Archival room, this
simpler room will cost $233,750.
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ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT
ACADEMIC MASTER PLAN
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TTU Strategic Goal ACCESS

Increase Enrollment and Retention to Better Serve the Higher
Education Needs of
Tennessee
16. Increase new freshmen enrollment by 1.5 percent per year.
17. Increase the quality of the freshmen class through special
recruitment and scholarships.

Admissions

I. Access
A. Refine communication plans to respond quickly and appropriately to
each
student/parent and continue the enrollment strategies to increase the
applicant pool
by four percent per year.
B. Utilize the scholarship plan to determine significant awards that are
competitive and
award to as many students as possible coordinating with Financial Aid
and the
departments.
II. Technology
A. Improve the technology in each communication medium
demonstrating that we are
THE technology institution.
B. Prepare for a new student information system and the transition to
it.
C. Increase analysis and evaluation capabilities of our programs by
utilizing this new
system with personnel capable of utilizing it.
III. Lottery
Coordinate Admission, Financial Aid, and Records efforts needed to
implement the
Lottery Financial Awards.
IV. Retention
1c) Increase the percentage of first-time, full-time freshmen returning
for their second
year by 0.4 percent per year for the next five years in order to remain
at or above the
THEC state average each year.
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A. By strengthening the admissions requirements, we plan to enroll
students who will
be more likely to succeed and therefore matriculate to the sophomore
year.
B. By increasing the number of VIP campus visitors (through easier
access to the

program via online reservation form), we will give more students a

clearer picture
of who we are, thereby giving them the necessary information to know
if TTU is
the right match for them.
C. By continuing and improving the SOAR (Student Orientation,
Advising, and
Registration) program, we will get new freshmen off to a strong start
by cultivating
relationships between the new students and TTU faculty,
administration, staff, and
students.
V. Transfer
1b) Increase new transfer students each year by three percent per
year during this
planning cycle.
A. Although significant strides will be made through the Transfer
Coordinators office
and in the area of 2+2 programs, we will increase efforts to
communicate with
students who had indicated during their high school senior year that
they would
enroll at a TBR community college.
B. The Admissions Office will work directly with the Transfer
Coordinator to
specifically target transfer students for VIP campus visits.
VI. Diversity
3a) Focus on increasing recruitment of African-American students from
high schools
that have provided African-American enrollment in the past.
Enrollment of freshmen will
increase by 50 percent by 2005. (Revise to sayincrease to 80 per
year for the next 5
years.)
A. The Admissions Office will continue to improve and enhance the
already-existing
special communication plan for African-American students. This
communication
plan will introduce our ACE Camp program in a timely manner so as to
recruit
excellent attendees for the program.
B. Increase the scholarships for African-American students to remain
competitive for
good students.
VII. Telecounseling

A. Refine procedures and timing of our telecounseling communication

plan to increase
applications and enrollment yield.
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B. Expand opportunities for specified calling and/or chat groups such
as Honors,
Agriculture/Human Ecology Ambassadors, Biology, etc.
C. Expand technology to send computer e-mail messages that appear
individualized.
D. Integrate new administrative computer system with computer
model that operates
telecounseling center (Dialogue) to provide better service and
integration of reports
that improve analysis.

Academic Affairs

I. Retention
Increase retention by coordinating major retention efforts between
Academic Affairs and
Student Affairs.
II. Welcome Center
Provide campus visitation, admission, scholarships, and financial
services to new
students at one location.
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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SERVICES

ACADEMIC MASTER PLAN
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Mission
1. Information Technology Services mission is to provide a
infrastructure that supports and
enhances the Universitys effort to complete its mission. The
infrastructure consists of
networks, computers, software, training, and support services that are
best of breed.
2. ITS designs, installs, and maintains administrative systems that
enable the University to
operate on a daily basis.
3. ITS makes decisions and recommendations about technology that
give the University
competitive advantage whenever possible. ITS also recognizes that
technology in and of
itself is not a solution to a need or problem and is open to and
welcomes debate and open
communication.

4. ITS is an advocate and presents new techniques in the teaching and

learning pedagogy
through the Institute of Technological Scholarship, short course
offerings, and the faculty
mentoring program.

Directions

1. ITS will continue to provide technology that meets the needs of

traditional undergraduate
programs.
2. ITS will implement technology that meets the needs of the
traditional residential student,
students taking online courses, and non-traditional adult students. ITS
supports the idea
that learning should take place anytime, anywhere and is not bound to
time or place.
3. ITS supports partnerships with other schools and industry in order to
enhance the
educational experience for students of TTU and other TBR schools.
4. ITS maintains that new leading edge technology can give the
institution competitive
advantage if implemented early in the new technology lifecycle.
5. Similarly, ITS maintains that implementation of mainstream
technology or technology at
the end of its lifecycle does not offer competitive advantage but lack of
implementation
provides disadvantage.

Research Directions

1. ITS will implement, enhance, and maintain a high-speed campus

backbone to meet the
needs of research and high performance computing.
2. ITS will strive to hire staff with skills and potential that enables the
institution to
maintain a reputation for excellence in technology.
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3. ITS employs students that work hand-in-hand with professional staff
to develop and
support technology across the campus, offering students experience
beyond the
classroom.
4. ITS staff gain insight into leading edge technology by working
closely with students and
faculty.

Service Directions

1. ITS staff provides service to the University, State, Region and

beyond by presenting at

professional meetings and teaching technology courses to the

community.
2. ITS sponsors a state and regional technology symposium each year
that has become
known for quality and excellence.
3. ITS employs students that work hand-in-hand with professional staff
to develop and
support technology across the campus, offering students experience
beyond the
classroom.
4. ITS staff gain insight into leading edge technology by working
closely with students and
faculty.

Goals for 2015

1. ITS supports student-centered learning by providing the

infrastructure and technology
that enables students to achieve learning through non-traditional
means.
2. ITS recognizes that technology offers new innovative ways of
learning and will
implement and support these new learning approaches in concert with
faculty.
3. ITS supports delivery of quality distance education through the use
of advanced
technology such as Internet2.
4. ITS will provide a reward structure for staff that recognizes
excellence and
degrees/certificates earned which provide benefit to the University.
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INSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH
ACADEMIC MASTER PLAN
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Mission
The purpose of the Office of Institutional Research is to provide
information and analyses in
support of University planning, evaluation, and management. The
office provides analytical
support regarding a broad array of subjects and aspects of the
University and is involved in
ongoing data collection, analysis, and dissemination of information;
design and implementation
of internal studies related to students and personnel; development of
databases suitable for
longitudinal studies and statistical analyses; use of external studies
and reports; and related

activities in support of University decision making.

Context

The Office of Institutional Research operates within a continuously

challenging context that has
featured a steadily increasing work load and substantial reductions in
staffing and budget for
2003-2004. Addressing the concurrent conditions of increasing load
and reduced resources has
been a great challenge for the Office of Institutional Research.
Although the staffing of OIR was reduced from four persons to three in
Spring 2003, the director
and two research analysts comprise a strong, lean team that can excel
in handling certain data
management and analytical endeavors for the University. The
Universitys expanding interest in
management research and analyses is placing consistently increasing
pressure upon OIR to
concentrate efforts on those endeavors that will yield reasonably
certain gains for the University.

Strategic Goals

In conjunction with the above statements about mission and context,

the Office of Institutional
Research has the following strategic goals:
1. Reduction of Backlog and Overload
Address overload and backlog of projects and tasks for the Office of
Institutional Research
by reexamining priorities to ensure appropriate concordance with, and
focus upon,
University needs in near-term and longer-term time frames.
In addressing the imbalance between work load and resources to
handle the load, also seek
to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the institutional research
operation.
2. Dataset Development and Management
Strengthen and improve the development and management of
datasets to provide for
current-year and longitudinal analyses and research regarding
students, human resources,
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and finance at the University.
Seek to ensure that selected data will be readily available for currentyear and longitudinal
analyses and research. The Office of Institutional Research will create,
use, and archive

census datasets regarding selected information about students and

human resources.
Making selected data readily available is an integral part of the process
of providing
information and analyses to support University administrative decision
making and
planning. This goal is related to University goals regarding enrollment
management,
student retention, faculty salaries, and other areas of research,
because appropriate data will
be needed for the study of these University constructs.
3. Management Report Series
Continue to develop the IR Series of management reports about an
array of University
topics.
Make topical information about an array of University subjects
available to University
decision makers through development of a series of management
reports. The Office of
Institutional Research will develop topical information about an array of
University
subjects, such as enrollment, student characteristics, retention,
instructional activity,
faculty, and salaries. The development of this information will
culminate in the production
of research reports for use by University decision makers and planners.
4. Trend Information
Develop Tech Trends, a collection of trend information about basic
areas of University
operations, and deliver this information to appropriate University users
in electronic form.
The Office of Institutional Research will develop trend information
about basic areas of
University operations, such as enrollment management, student
characteristics, retention,
faculty, salaries, and selected financial measures. The development of
this information will
contribute to the production of a trend resource for use by University
decision makers and
planners.
5. Research Support for Selected Priorities of the University
In conjunction with University priorities, improve existing research,
conduct new research,
or begin planning to conduct research about selected topics, such as
the following:
Enrollment Management

- Study of Non-Enrolling Accepted Applicants

- Study of Non-returning Students
Retention and Graduation Rates
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Scholarship Management
- Scholarship Award Yield Analysis
Tennessee Lottery Scholarship
National Study of Instructional Costs and Productivity (The Delaware
Study)
Faculty and Departmental Activity
Faculty Salaries
Undergraduate Transfer Students
Student Diversity
Geier Stipulation of Settlement Goals
Assessment of Student Development
Reaffirmation of University Accreditation by the Southern Association of
Colleges
and Schools (SACS)
Academic Program Review
National Study of Faculty Students (NSoFaS)
University Key Success Indicators
Comparison Institutions
Human Resource Planning
Environmental Scanning
Ad Hoc Studies for Senior Administration
Assistance to University Units and Committees
Collaborate with Information Technology Services, Undergraduate
Admissions, Student
Financial Aid, Academic Affairs, University Planning, and other campus
entities in pursuit
of initiatives and selected technological improvements and
advancements in such areas as
the following:
New university-wide information system with relational database
foundation.
Development of a new, improved data management infrastructure,
including a
comprehensive, flexible repository for selected University data.
Increasingly web-accessible products, services, and information
resources.
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The above strategic goals will be pursued within a methodological
framework of seeking
continuous improvement, with (a) concerted attention to quality and
timeliness of products and

services and (b) regular assessment and consequent adjustment of

processes and operations in the
Office of Institutional Research. It is an inherent goal for OIR to be a
strong collaborative and
cooperative partner with other campus entities in pursuing the overall
improvement of Tennessee
Technological University.
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