SACS Reaffirmation
| Objective | Appropriate Strategic Planning | |
| Identify the necessary resources to accommodate expected growth. Associated Goals: Lead The College In Appropriate Strategic Planning And Management |
| Indicator | Strategic Plan COBA in concert with the Strategic Management Advisory Committee will meet and produce a strategic plan. |
| Criteria | Strategic Plan A written strategic plan is developed for 2007 - 2008. |
| Finding | Strategic Plan A strategic plan for the College of Business Administation was developed based on the input of the Strategic Management Advisory Committee and published in the Annual Report. |
| Action | Strategic Plan COBA will attempt to improve and expand its strategic planning process to include more long term needs. |
| Objective | External Funding | |
Associated Goals: Lead The College In Appropriate Strategic Planning And Management |
| Indicator | Amount Of Non-state Funding COBA will pursue additional external/Non-state funds for unrestricted purposes and scholarships. |
| Criteria | External Funding COBA will obtain at least $2,000,000 in non-state funding through various development efforts. |
| Finding | External Funding COBA obtained $1,264,674 in outside funding for FY 2007. |
| Action | Non-State Funding Continue to identify and contact sources of support. Monitor university capital campaign and COBA fund-raising activities. |
| Objective | The College's Image | |
| Enhance the College's image and its impact on its stakeholders. Associated Goals: Lead The College In Appropriate Strategic Planning And Management |
| Indicator | AACSB International Accreditation |
| Criteria | Maintain AACSB Accreditation Monitor and maintain compliance as demonstrated in COBA''s Annual Reports. |
| Finding | AACSB Accreditation Maintenance Completed the annual review and Annual Report required for AACSB. Two departments did not meet the AQ/PQ requirements. |
| Indicator | COBA Career Fair The College of Business will hold a career fair each spring to attract employers to recruit COBA students for internships and employment. |
| Criteria | Companies Represented at COBA Career Fair At least 50 companies will participate in the COBA Career Fair. |
| Finding | Participation at COBA Career Fair 56 companies were represented at the COBA Career Fair in Spring 2007 up from 52 companies in the Spring 2006. |
| Indicator | College Image Enhancement Events/Programs COBA will attend and initiate events to enhance exposure of the College to stakeholders |
| Criteria | Increase the Quantity and Quality of Public Relations Events The College of Business Administration will increase the quantity and quality of public relations events that enhance the College''s image. |
| Finding | Public Relation Events COBA was promoted through the following events: The Inaugural COBA Hall of Honor; Business Week Cover Program; COBA Pride Newsletter (2 editions); Journal of Business Strategies; Brochures promoting the College, banking program, Human Resource Management, PGA/PGM program, Smith-Hutson scholarship program; COBA Annual Report; COBA Academic Awards Program; Executive-in-Residence Program; Booth at HR Symposium; Saturdays at Sam; attendance at alumni events. |
| Indicator | Participation At Professional Meetings Faculty will attend and present at professional conferences and meetings to enhance the college's image. |
| Criteria | Number of Faculty Presentations at Professional Meetings COBA Faculty will present at least 100 papers at professional meetings. |
| Finding | Number of Faculty Presentations 105 papers were presented at professional meetings in 2006 by COBA faculty members. |
| Action | AACSB Accreditation Continue to annually monitor accreditation requirements and prepare Annual Reports required by AACSB International. As part of this process faculty composition will be addressed to assure compliance with AQ/PQ requirements. |
| Action | Number of Faculty Presentations COBA will fund additional travel to professional meetings to increase the number of presentations to 120. COBA faculty will be encouraged to seek offices in regional, national, and international professional organizations. |
| Action | Participation at COBA Career Fair Determine avenues for increasing the number of companies participating in the COBA Career Fair. |
| Action | Public Relations Events COBA will continue to expand and improve the quality of programs/events that enhance the image of the College. Each of the departments will publish a newsletter. |
| Objective | Relevant Curriculum | |
| COBA academic programs will maintain a curriculum relevant to today’s business environment. Associated Goals: Provide Quality Academic Programs |
| Indicator | Curriculum Review Departments and degree programs in COBA will be regularly reviewed by appropriate faculty committees. |
| Criteria | Curriculum Review Each department in COBA will provide the Dean''s Office with a copy of the proceedings of meetings of the various departmental curriculum committees. |
| Finding | Curriculum Review The Dean''''s Office was provided with results of meetings of the curriculum committees of the departments in the College of Business Administration. |
| Indicator | Curriculum Review Departmental curriculum reports will be submitted to the College Curriculum Committee. |
| Criteria | Curriculum Review Each department in COBA will provide the Dean''s Office with a copy of the proceedings of meetings of the various departmental curriculum committees. |
| Finding | Curriculum Review Curriculum Committees in the departments in the College of Business Administration submitted reports to the College Curriculum Committee |
| Action | Relevent Curriculum The College of Business Administration will continue to review all programs and individual curricula each year during the spring and summer semester in preparation for the reports required during the fall semesters. Minutes of committee meetings and a Curriculum Report will be provided by each department. |
| Objective | Incoming Students | |
| Higher quality students allows for a richer educational experience. COBA will seek to increase the quality of incoming students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Associated Goals: Recruit, Develop, Retain, And Graduate Quality Students |
| Indicator | Incoming Students Review and modify, as appropriate, the requirements for enrollment in upper-division business courses. |
| Criteria | Incoming Students The College of Business Administration will review requirements for enrollment in upper-division business courses and consider modifying those requirements. |
| Finding | Incoming Students The College of Business Administration reviewed requirements for enrollment in upper-division business courses and is considering modifying those requirements. |
| Action | Incoming Students The College of Business Administration will continue to review and revise as necessary the requirements for enrollment in upper-division business courses. |
| Objective | Placement Of Graduates | |
| The quality of our graduates and programs is reflected in our graduates' success in locating employment. Associated Goals: Recruit, Develop, Retain, And Graduate Quality Students |
| Indicator | COBA Career Fair The College of Business will hold a career fair each spring to attract employers to recruit COBA students for internships and employment. |
| Criteria | Companies Represented at COBA Career Fair At least 50 companies will participate in the COBA Career Fair. |
| Finding | Participation at COBA Career Fair 56 companies were represented at the COBA Career Fair in Spring 2007 up from 52 companies in the Spring 2006. |
| Indicator | Employment Percentage of graduating seniors who indicate they have secured employment on the EBI Undergraduate Business Exit Assessment. |
| Criteria | Employment At least 30% of graduating seniors responding to the EBI survey will have secured employment. |
| Finding | Employment 32% of the graduating seniors responding to the EBI Undergraduate Business Exit Assessment indicated that they had been offered a position and accepted. |
| Action | COBA Career Fair Determine avenues for increasing the number of companies participating in the COBA Career Fair |
| Action | Placement of Graduates The College of Business Administration will explore the possibility of establishing a more formal career advising center to encourage and assist students/graduates in seeking employment opportunities. |
| Objective | Student Retention | |
| Ensure students have the support for the successful and timely completion of their academic program as well as supporting the University's retention efforts. Associated Goals: Recruit, Develop, Retain, And Graduate Quality Students |
| Indicator | Student Intervention Provide a proactive approach to helping students succeed. |
| Criteria | First Alert Program COBA faculty members will refer failing students to the First Alert Program in the SAM Center. |
| Finding | First Alert Program COBA faculty referred 198 students to the Sam Center under the First Alert Program. |
| Criteria | MAP Referrals All suspended students who are 15 or more grade points deficient and are readmitted on probation will be referred to the MAP program in the SAM Center. |
| Finding | MAP Program During the 2006 - 2007 academic year the College of Business Administration referred 43 students to the MAP Program in the SAM Center. This was not all of the business students who had been readmitted on probation. |
| Criteria | Tutoring Programs Tutoring is made available by our College for 60% of business core classes. |
| Finding | Tutoring Programs In 2006 - 2007 tutoring was made available for the following seven (50%) business core classes: ACC 231, ACC 232, ECO 233, ECO 234, BAN 232, BAN 363, and FIN 367. |
| Action | First Alert Program The College of Business Administration will continue to encourage faculty to refer students with academic/attendance issues to the SAM Center through the First Alert Program. |
| Action | MAP Program The Dean''s Office in the College of Business Administration will attempt to refer all students who are readmitted on probation with a grade point deficiency of 15 or more to the Sam Center''s MAP Program. |
| Action | Tutoring Programs The College of Business Administration will attempt to provide more tutoring opportunities, especially in the business core, for students who are experiencing academic difficulties in those classes. |
| Objective | Faculty Composition | |
| The composition of the college’s faculty will reflect the mission of the college and be sufficient to maintain AACSB International accreditation. Associated Goals: Seek And Maintain Appropriate Mission-Driven Faculty |
| Indicator | Academically And Professionally Qualified Faculty Percent of classes taught by Academically Qualified and by both Academically Qualified and Professionally Qualified faculty. |
| Criteria | Academically Qualified faculty Fifty percent of all classes must be taught by Academically Qualified faculty. |
| Finding | Academically Qualified Faculty For each semester during the 2006 -- 2007 academic year Academically Qualified faculty taught over 50% of the classes (62.24% Fall 2006, 61.73% Spring 2007, 68.87% Summer 2007) |
| Criteria | Academically and Professionally Qualified faculty Ninety percent of all classes must be taught by Academically or Professionally Qualified faculty. |
| Finding | Academically and Professionally Qualified Faculty For each semester during the 2006 -- 2007 academic year Academically and Professionally Qualified faculty taught slightly less than 90% of the classes (87.51% Fall 2006, 84.83% Spring 2007, 87.68% Summer 2007 with Summer Session 1 being 93.46%) |
| Action | Academically Qualified Faculty New faculty members who are Academically Qualified were hired. |
| Action | Academically and Professionally Qualified Faculty: Faculty who are not Professionally Qualified were instructed to take measures to improve their qualifications utilizing one or more of the options available in the list of items determining Professional Qualification. |
| Objective | Teaching, Research And Service Expectations | |
| COBA faculty will meet or exceed expectations related to teaching, research, and service. Associated Goals: Seek And Maintain Appropriate Mission-Driven Faculty |
| Indicator | Effective Researcher Effective research will be determined by acceptable scores on FES 3. COBA departments will define and measure effective research using FES 3 scores and other departmentally appropriate research measures. |
| Criteria | Effective Researcher All four departments in COBA will define effective research using the FES 3 Form, evaluate each faculty member, and report those findings to the Dean''s Office. |
| Finding | Effective Researcher All departments established and met those goals for 2006. |
| Indicator | Effective Service Provider Effective service is defined by acceptable scores on FES4. COBA departments will define and measure effective service using FES 4 scores and other departmentally appropriate service measures. |
| Criteria | Effective Service Provider All four departments in COBA will define effective service using the FES Forms 4, evaluate each faculty member, and report those findings to the Dean''s Office. |
| Finding | Effective Service Provider All departments in the College established and met the goals which were established. |
| Indicator | Effective Teacher Effective teaching will be determined by acceptable scores on the IDEA and FES teaching evaluations. COBA departments will define and measure effective teaching using IDEA and FES scores. |
| Criteria | Effective Teacher All four departments in COBA will define effective teaching using the IDEA and FES forms, evaluate each faculty member, and report those findings to the Dean''s Office. |
| Finding | Effective Teacher All departments in the College established goals for the determination of an effective teacher. All goals were met. |
| Action | Teaching, Research and Service Expectations The College of Business Administration will review and modify as appropriate the elements of the faculty evaluation system to encourage faculty to improve in those areas. Additionally, faculty members who are not Academically Qualified when eligible will not be provided summer teaching opportunities. |