April 18, 2016 TO: Department Representatives of the

UCDAVIS: ACADEMIC SENATE

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

April 18, 2016

TO: Department Representatives of the Representative Assembly

RE: Update

Dear Department Representatives:

I want to update you on several events that have occurred since my communication on March 9, 2016.

We have reached an important milestone—near completion of Phase Two—in the Four Year Completion

Initiative (FYCI). As you know, in Fall 2015 the Chair of the Academic Senate, the Vice Provost of

Undergraduate Education, and the Chair of the Council of Associate Deans launched FYCI. The objective

of FYCI is to create an educational environment that enables—but does not mandate—an undergraduate

student to complete a degree in four years. That is, the objective of FYCI is not to force all students to

complete a degree in four years, but to make that option available and feasible. Below is an update on

FYCI progress.

Phase One: I asked Department Chairs to consult with their faculty and provide responses to an open-

ended questionnaire by March 1, 2016. All Department Chairs promptly responded, providing a wealth of

information on the factors they perceived were the main obstructions undergraduate students faced in

graduating in four years (attachment 1).

Phase Two: The information gathered in Phase 1 was forwarded to many Academic Senate Committees,

including all Faculty Executive Councils, with a request to provide feedback by April 15, 2016. I also

specifically asked Ed Caswell-Chen (Chair of the Undergraduate Council), Sue Ebeler (Chair of the

Council of Associate Deans), and Brett McFarlane (Director of Academic Advising) to consult with their

respective councils and advisors to gather additional analyses and feedback. Finally, I requested that

Budget and Intuitional Analysis (BIA) systematically analyze all data collected and report back to the

Academic Senate. I have received feedback and information from all the above.

Phase Three

: The issues identified in Phases 1 and 2 will demand expedited action. We must move

quickly into the implementation phase. This morning I received BIA’s draft report, “Undergraduate

Student Success: Graduation Rate and Time to Degree, An Analytical Roadmap.” This document was

prepared in consultation with the Office of Student Affairs using the input collected in Phase 1

(attachment 2). By this Thursday, April 21, Ed Caswell-Chen, Sue Ebeler, Brett McFarlane and others

will complete their review of the draft recommendations; the purpose of their review is to ensure that the

actions identified in the BIA report are consistent with additional inputs received during Phase 2. If you,

as a Departmental Representative, wish to review and comment on the report, please send your comments

to Kyle Gayman (ksgayman@ucdavis.edu) by this Friday, April 22. I will finalize the report by Monday,

April 25, and the Academic Senate will immediately launch into a targeted assessment of

recommendations and implementation roadmaps.

I should also note that increasing summer course offerings is a crucial element of the Four Year

Completion Initiative, and the attached list (attachment 3) has been prepared in consultation with the

Associate Deans and the Departments Chairs. In the past, the campus could not encourage increased

summer enrollment due to the unavailability of state and federal summer financial aid. To overcome this

lack of state and federal funding, the Administration has specifically allocated an additional $1.9 million

to the 2016 summer financial aid pot, for a total of $10.5 million. As we have discussed several times in

the Academic Senate, summer courses must offer the same quality of instruction as courses during the

regular quarters. I am aware that faculty have expressed some concerns in the past about Summer

Sessions. Please bring any concerns about Summer Session to my attention. I will keep you updated as

these issues are discussed with the Administration.

As you may know, due to significant financial challenges at UC Berkeley, Chancellor Dirks has

announced his intent to restructure some of its academic programs and to lay off more than 500 staff

employees. In contrast, UC Davis has a plan in place to ensure current and future financial health. Every

year, senior leadership from each campus has a budget meeting with the President. See attached for the

UC Davis slide deck presented on March 18, 2016 (attachment 4). Specifically, slides 4-9 summarize the

planning in place to ensure financial health at UC Davis. The Committee on Planning and Budget (CPB)

continually reviews the resource allocations and investments that are made by the administration. Most

recently, I have asked CPB to perform an expedited review of resource allocations to the Office of

Strategic Communications, and to report back to the Executive Council by Thursday, April 21. You may

direct any budgetary questions to the Associate Director of the Davis Division, Kimberly Pulliam

([email protected]).

In closing, I would like to recognize the committee members who have been at the forefront of all of these

efforts. Our colleagues have adhered to a very aggressive timeline and have clearly shown the great

benefit that shared governance brings to the University of California and our campus.

Sincerely,

André Knoesen

Chair, Academic Senate

Professor: Electrical and Computer Engineering

Attachments: 1. UC Davis Four Year Completion Initiative: Phase One Summary

2. Undergraduate Student Success: Graduation Rate and Time to Degree, An Analytical

Roadmap

3. Guaranteed-to-Go Summer 2016 Courses

4. Annual Budget Meeting

UC Davis Four Year Completion Initiative: Phase One Summary March 7, 2016

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UC Davis Four Year Completion Initiative: Phase One Summary

By André Knoesen, Chair Davis Division, Academic Senate

The objective of the Four Year Degree Completion Initiative (Initiative) is to identify and

eliminate campus controlled factors impeding an undergraduate student’s ability to complete

degree requirements and graduate in four years. The Initiative will conclude within two years.

The first phase of the Initiative collected information from faculty in all the undergraduate

majors on the Davis campus. The purpose of this Phase One Summary is to take the

information obtained from the questionnaire and rapidly distribute it to the campus to

stimulate further discussion on ways to improve four year degree completion on the Davis

campus.

Chairs from all 106 undergraduate majors consulted with faculty and responded to the

following open-ended question: “As part of the Four Year Completion Initiative, UC Davis is

soliciting department input regarding factors, outside the required upper division courses in a

curriculum, that impede your undergraduate students from completing the major within four

years. Please describe such factors in the space below.”

The approach used to perform this heuristic analysis is not intended to be in-depth or rigorous.

From the responses received:

a) Redacted statements were extracted so as not to identify majors providing the response

(the redactions were reviewed by Budget and Institutional Analysis to ensure

appropriate information is released);

b) The statements were tabulated along with an identifier if the comment came from a BS

major, BA major or BS&BA major;

c) By looking at the statement, dominant themes were identified; and

d) Statements were grouped to determine how many times comments reflected an

identified theme.

Attachment #1

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Lack of Courses: Degree Type

...important classes are not available to our majors in a timely

fashion

...some of the large lower division courses that are required by

almost all Bachelor of Science majors on campus

… availability of required lower division courses, such as the BIS 2

series.

… the high number of enrolled undergraduates at UC Davis

coupled with limited course offerings are making course

accessibility difficult across campus and that delays students

completing in a four year time frame.

… the shortfall of general education (lower division) class

offerings, specifically CHE2 and BIS2. Registration for these

classes has been difficult in the past, leading to a shortfall of

prerequisite coursework for the upper division … classes.

…. an issue with our course PLS 2, in that it would be helpful if we

could offer it more than once per year

…. the primary impediment to 4-year graduation occurs when

students fall out of course sequence, by failing one class or

missing a quarter of coursework (due to personal circumstances

or to complete an internship).

….not being able to get courses needed in a timely fashion,

…ability to offer some undergraduate core courses only once per

year due to faculty time and other program constraints.

…access to needed courses due to the impact of high student

numbers across campus.

…although students have various options for upper division

coursework, only some of those courses can be repeated.

…because of the interdisciplinary nature of the….major, students

must enroll in courses across the campus including those courses

that are in highly impacted majors such as ARE and high-demand,

impacted courses such as those in UWP and CMN.

…ECS 30 (Introduction to Programming and Problem Solving),

which is required for our BS degrees, is not offered at convenient

times for our undergraduate majors

…frequency of course offerings

…impacted courses due to limited/ insufficient instructional and

laboratory space, which seriously lag the growth in enrollments.

…inability to enroll in BIS 101, which is a prerequisite for many of

the restricted elective classes under our Biotechnology sub-

emphasis. Students say that it is difficult to get into the class.

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…inability to enroll in preparatory subject matter courses in a

timely matter (i.e., BIS series, CHE 2ABC series) due to large

enrollments.

…insufficient instructional resources: Our current instructional

capacity does not allow frequent enough offering of a number of

key gateway or otherwise required courses

…lower division preparatory courses not having enough space for

students.

…most classes offered only once a year (forcing students who fail

a class to repeat it a year later).

…one other severe constraint on many students is that they must

work to earn income or their debts will be even higher -- this is a

function of the high tuitions that UC students must pay. When

they work more, they cannot take as large an academic load.

…only being able to offer some required undergraduate courses

once per year due to lack of faculty and competition with

offering graduate courses.

…our majors would benefit from having quarterly offerings of the

Physics 1 series, and the Chem 2 and 8 series.

…required undergraduate major courses are only able to be

offered once per year due to an insufficient number of faculty to

address teaching needs within both the undergraduate and

graduate programs.

…scheduling conflicts between … core courses and Restricted

Elective (RE) classes offered by other departments delay the

order in which students can take their RE courses and ultimately

may cause them to take longer to complete or to take alternate

classes than they prefer.

…the availability of chemistry courses (workload, CHE 2ABC, and

CHE 8AB) may contribute to some … students not graduating in 4

years. Our students don’t generally have trouble getting in to

those course, but sometimes we wish they could start a series in

a quarter that the first course in the series isn't offered.

…the campus student enrollment is growing and course

enrollment is strained to capacity, particularly in the experiential

laboratory courses

…the growing campus student enrollment is leading to some

courses being overenrolled. Some students are finding that they

must take courses out of sequence due to limited availability,

which is not an optimal pedagogical situation, or may have to

wait until their senior or "super-senior" year in order to get into

the right class.

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…there is significant competition within the campus for students

to be able to enroll in general education and key preparatory

science courses. Students may not be able to enroll in courses in

the correct pedagogical sequence or may have to stay longer to

obtain a spot in high enrollment courses

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Late Change of Major: Degree Type

...Students starting in a major that is not the right fit and they do

not do well in their classes forcing them to have to leave the

university for an extended period of time and take courses at a

community college to reenter Davis…..

...Students switching majors after junior year ….

…(students) tend to add ….. as a major later in their college

career

…..many of our students do not start at UC Davis as ….majors, but

come to the major later in their academic careers, sometimes as

a second major, but other times after having not succeeded in

whatever major they started off in.

…..Some of our students enter the …. major after leaving other

majors. If this is done relatively late, then the need to complete

courses in the new major can push students past the four-year

mark.

….it is likely that students who join the major later will be

delayed as they may have other college and university

requirements to satisfy simultaneously.

…a number of students switch fairly late into the ( ) major, and

this can make it challenging to complete the major within four

years.

…many of our students declare their majors late, often switching

from the sciences. As a result, they need extra time to fulfill the

requirements for the major in starting so late as well as having to

address any issues such as academic probation due to low grades

in their previous major.

…students tend to discover (the major) relatively late in their

college careers…..If they discover this later than first quarter of

their second year, they have to wait till their third year to begin

the language sequence

…the longer (the students) remain undeclared, the most difficult

it is for them to register for their courses and meet the major

requirements

…the primary factor impeding our undergraduate students from

completing the major within four years has to do with the

manner in which they enter our major.

…we often have students declaring the ….major late, after taking

several classes and then realizing that they were well on their

way toward a major, as well as discovering their increasing

interest in the subject.

…students changing into the …major during their 3rd or 4th year

after realizing their current major is not a good fit academically

ba & bs

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…we also have a large number of students who double major and

do not declare .... as a major until the end of their junior year.

We would like the policies to declare a double major to be

changed so students are encouraged to declare their second

major much sooner.

ba & bs

… changed majors relatively late and still needed to complete

many of the foundational science classes, such as biology,

chemistry and physics.

…. students may be delayed because they transferred into the

major late and so lacked some of the prerequisites.

…. the most common reason that a … student doesn’t graduate in

4 years is because they started in a different major and decided

to be in (X major) too late to graduate in 4 years (but could

graduate within the Dean’s Office’s 225 unit maximum).

…Changing into the major later in their academic career

…Late decisions to change their major.

…many of our students transfer from other majors that they did

not like and were not doing well in. For some number of these

students, it is likely that they would drop out of UC Davis entirely

thus affecting overall completion rates. Difficulty in graduating in

4 years comes when students transfer from majors such as biosci

or engineering into social science departments.

…students changing late lead to lack of prerequisites.

…Students transferring from other majors without the needed

prerequisites cannot catch up on degree progress due to courses

being offered only once per year.

…The many students who change majors … push that number

higher.

…they changed majors late (more than one reason could be

selected).

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Financial & Personal Circumstances: Degree Type

...heard anecdotally of some students not having their basic

needs met while at UC Davis (adequate housing and nutrition), ….

...the biggest challenges,... our undergraduates have to contend

with as they try to complete their degree in four years are

directly related to the soaring costs of a university education.

...we have had students in our major who commute long

distances to campus,.... this too may also be related to wealth

disparities if students are unable to afford housing in Davis or

have family responsibilities that prevent them from moving close

to campus.

…..some attention should be given to whether or not recent

increases in tuition and fees, along with the economic downturn

that occurred during the years for which data on graduation rates

have been made available, have disproportionately affected

students from less privileged backgrounds....

….Financial issues related to not enough financial aid or students

having to support themselves….

….sometimes having to work to support not only themselves but

also other members of their families….

….Students having additional priorities that take their time and

increase stress levels resulting in less units being taken per

quarter or student taking a needed break between quarters (i.e.

working full-time, care taking of children and/or other family

members, illnesses, mental health issues etc.)

…Few of our students come from economically privileged

backgrounds. Many of them are first-generation college students

and/or minorities. The soaring costs of higher education is an

issue that touches more and more students and one that hits

minorities and first-generation college students

disproportionately hard. Many students have no financial

support from their families and are entirely on their own. Hence

our students work a great deal outside the classroom. As many as

half, or even more, of our students work as much as 20-30 per

week in addition to taking several courses. Such financial stress

and long hours of work while a student pose particular challenges

to many of our students’ ability to progress swiftly.

…Financial stress is and is likely to continue to be a possible

impediment to our students’ ability to progress apace toward a

degree in four years.

…it is reasonable to suppose that students from low income

backgrounds might have to work more hours in order to make

ends meet,

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…many students appear to be delayed due to personal issues.

These include working part or full time on top of their studies,

family issues they must attend to and mental health issues

(we've had a number of students with depression and other

mental health struggles).

…Students frequently have commitments that conflict with

coursework, such as jobs, perceived religious and social

obligations, family difficulties, and personal (psychological and

health) crises that interfere with school.

…Students often encounter financial difficulties as a result of UC's

outrageously high tuition and unexpected increases in

tuition/fees that impede their timely completion of

requirements.

…Working students are frequently limited in the number of units

they can take in a given quarter

…external circumstances such as having children, working full-

time, or caring for a parent that could cause students to reduce

their course load per quarter

ba & bs

… many students who need to work in order to afford

fees/tuition and/or to be able to provide for themselves, and this

tends to increase their time to degree as they cannot as easily

take as high a number of units as students who do not need to

work.

…An increasing number of students are working part-time during

college in order to help cover expenses of their education.

…Family problems that lead to dropping courses or incomplete

courses.

…Many students struggle to pay the high cost of university, and it

is common for students to work 20 or more hours per week,

limiting their ability to take a high course load to advance to

graduation.

…One other severe constraint on many students is that they must

work to earn income or their debts will be even higher -- this is a

function of the high tuitions that UC students must pay. When

they work more, they cannot take as large an academic load. This

means that poorer students cannot do as well as their richer

fellow students.

…Students may take the minimum number of units because they

have jobs, internships, or family responsibilities.

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…Workload courses affect freshman scheduling capability

(students needing extra preparatory course work are placed into

workload courses).

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Lack of Instructional Space: Degree Type

…..obtaining classrooms that could accommodate larger number

of students at desirable times is a major obstacle.

….We do suffer some impediments due to a lack of appropriate

classroom space at UC Davis…

….we require many large lecture halls each quarter to

accommodate our courses. The university does not give us the

number of lecture halls that …we request and therefore, we

cannot offer as many spaces in the classes as would be necessary

for our major…..

....student progress related to scheduling is the overall shortage

of classrooms on campus. This especially affects the lower

division preparatory coursework and some of early upper division

depth courses that are prerequisites for upper division speciality

courses. Students are often waitlisted for these core biology,

math and chemistry courses and cannot move on the upper

division elective courses in a manner that allows them to

graduate in 4 years.

ba & bs

…Shortage of classroom space makes scheduling hard.

ba & bs

…Space constraints also place limitations on our department that

may affect our students. We are running out of office space to

house our ... faculty, though our numbers keep growing. We have

run out of office space to house new advisers, whom may be

needed as the number of ..... undergraduates increases with the

2020 initiative.

ba & bs

…. inadequate space, meaning suitable lecture and laboratory

facilities,

…Class room availability.

…Enrollment limits due to lack of computer and wet lab teaching

space.

…Enrollment limits due to limited lab teaching space

…Enrollment limits in classes due to lack of large classrooms

…Enrollments are limited for some classes due to an insufficient

number of larger classrooms.

…For laboratory courses, enrollments are limited due to

inadequate computer and wet lab teaching space.

…Not having the resources to provide as many offerings due to

limited teaching and classroom resources

…seats available in courses.

…There is a lack of classrooms on campus.

.…Inflexibility of Academic Senate to allow creative solutions with

online/flipped sections on short notice.

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Lack of Preparation: Degree Type

...we suffer from the general lack of preparedness in writing that

we encounter in a substantial number of our students…….it

would benefit our teaching if the students were better prepared

in writing before they were admitted to UC Davis, or if there

were some sort of basic writing course that was required of all

freshmen...

….(50%) of students who graduated with …. degrees (in about the

last two years) …..spent at least one quarter facing academic

probation or similar academic sanctions.

…Students often arrive at UC Davis with less general and subject-

specific educational preparation than they used to; there often is

considerable remedial work required before students are

prepared for major courses. This is especially a problem with

transfer students, but often applies to first-year students as well.

…A reasonable amount of students interested in this field do not

enter the major with an adequate preparatory background and

therefore must take extra courses in Calculus and Physics that

our prerequisites to our classes, on their way to completing our

major; this sometimes can increase the length of time needed to

graduate.

…A substantial number of our slow-to-graduate students struggle

early with their lower division courses, and thus, they end up

taking upper division coursework later than typical and/or have

difficulty learning the engineering material.

…Community College Transfer students often do not focus on

preparatory subject matter while enrolled in CC. Instead they

focus on their GE or completing their IGETC instead. That is fine

for social sciences and humanities majors, but not for the science

majors. Those who do take some science courses, often transfer

with “partial credit” for “series for series” transfer subject matter

including Physics and Calculus.

…Entering first year and transfer students not having the

necessary prerequisites or preparatory coursework

…Less prepared transfer students due to lack of resources at the

community college level and lowering standards.

…Some lower division courses required for transfer to the

program are not offered at community colleges and must be

taken upon arrival.

…Students (both High School and Community College) are

admitted to the major who place into Workload Math and

Workload Chemistry or even lower-level coursework during their

Summer Orientation exams.

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…students arriving needing remedial classes (and even then,

student needing only a few remedial classes can finish in time).

…students arriving needing remedial classes (and even then,

students needing only a few remedial classes can finish in time)

…Students earning D and F grades in series courses (MAT 21,

PHY9) or required major courses and needing to retake them.

…Students earning D and F grades in series courses (MAT 21,

PHY9) or required major courses and needing to retake them.

…The variation in the quality of community and state college

preparation for university study appears to be exceptionally high.

…UC programs to enhance student retention from lower API

schools require a greater number of units in order to prepare

students for courses in the major.

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Summer: Degree Type

…Not having enough courses offered during the summer that would

allow them to complete the major.

…The lack of upper-division offerings in Summer Sessions, due to the

cost of compensation to ladder faculty, may be another factor.

…Cannot stay in Davis in summer to do coursework.

…Lack of summer offerings.

…Lack of Summer Session offerings

…Limited offerings of summer courses due to insufficient resources.

…Limited summer session offerings, which are not popular to teach

among our faculty.

…Limited summer sessions offerings

…Summer offers a tremendous opportunity to assist struggling

students with material, and to help them make up their progress lag.

The opportunity is under-utilized due to a number of reasons some of

which have to do with marketing of summer sessions, its business

model and the mismatch between organization of summer sessions

and time-to-degree as an institutional objective.

…Summer sessions limited offerings or interfering with internships etc.

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Transfer Students: Degree Type

...One factor impeding completion in four years may be the situation of

transfer students. These students need to meet the minimum unit

requirement for graduation, 180 units. A maximum of 105 units may be

transferred, leaving 75 units to graduate. Spread out over six quarters,

this would require an average of 12.5 units per quarter, slightly more

than minimum progress.

…Many of our students are transfer students and it takes them a few

quarters to get a hang of the intensity of the quarter system which

means they fail a few courses.

…. we support the idea of selective major review of transfer students in

statistics.

ba & bs

… no selective major review for its transfer applicants.

…many of our students are currently those who have transferred from

other UC Davis majors or are transfer students from community

college. The biggest impediment we currently see is that some of these

students may not have completed lower division requirements (e.g.,

organic chemistry, calculus) prior to their third year which cuts into the

upper division requirements. This is especially true of transfer students

from community college, who will need to make up some deficiencies.

This may then result in an extra 1-2 quarters at UC Davis.

…Students who take longer than normal are often transfer students

who arrived without sufficient preparation in lower-level courses.

…The high number of transfer students received, which mean that

some students have very tight schedules in which they could possibly

complete courses, especially courses offered in alternate years, or

which regularly become full because of limitations on lab space or

places on required field trips.

…Transfer advising is key as well - when transfer students arrive

without enough basic introductory science courses (preferably

including physics, calculus, biology, chemistry and organic chemistry) it

is a real problem to get them through on time.

…Transfer students coming in unprepared and with few courses

towards their intended degree.

…Transfer students that arrive unprepared with the prerequisites

required for the major.

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Internships: Degree Type

...Students wanting to participate in an internship, study abroad or the

UC Washington program and/or similar programs. Sometimes students

want to participate in two or three programs.

…students choosing to participate in valuable co-curricular experiences

ba & bs

…Coops/internships during academic year tuition cost forces students

to work part time.

…Internships and co-ops during the academic year

…Many … students work in internships during the quarter and

therefore do not take as many units per quarter as might be needed to

complete the degree in 4 years.

…Students elect to spend additional terms (more than would be

required to graduate) due to internship opportunities or a strong

passion for their undergraduate field of study.

…Students elect to spend additional terms due to internship

opportunities or a strong passion for their undergraduate field of study

beyond the minimum requirements.

…Travel abroad or internship participation slow them down Financial

problems (students often work too much, take time off from

coursework)

…A large number of our students pursue … undergraduate research,

practical training experience (internships and coops). The … faculty

wish to go on record as strongly opposing any policies that would

influence time to degree at the cost of penalizing students’ ability to

participate in practical training experiences, which we view as crucial to

producing industry ready engineers to meet 21st century challenges.

10.

…In order for our students to be competitive for acceptance into post-

baccalaureate programs in the health profession of dietetics, students

are expected to have multiple internship and other volunteer positions.

….This career-related experiential learning is very valuable to enrich

their university experience, and positions our students to successfully

compete for the highly sought post-baccalaureate positions

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Protecting GPA: Degree Type

….Students not wanting to take more than 3 classes per quarter

because they feel the course load is too rigorous for them and they are

concerned about their GPA for graduate or professional schools. ….

…Many of our students are pre-professional with a significant number

of students focused towards veterinary medicine… students tend to

repeat courses to improve grades.

…Some …. students, who are pre-med (or other pre-health professional

school bound) will delay completing their degree in four years to take

lighter loads that enable them to study for the MCATs, gain extra

clinical experience, and maintain higher GPAs.

…Some students elect to lighten their load by distribution over longer

time to degree.

…students choosing to take fewer units each quarter (for better

performance),

…Students make choices that affect progress. Students will delay taking

a course if they perceive an instructor is hard, or if the course is not

offered at an optimal time. Students will also drop classes they are not

doing well in, or inappropriately use "incompletes". Students do not

take full advantage of advising to ensure they are staying on track.

…Students make choices that affect progress. Students will delay taking

a course if they perceive an instructor is hard, or if the course is not

offered at an optimal time. Students will also drop classes they are not

doing well in, or inappropriately use "incompletes". Students do not

take full advantage of advising to ensure they are staying on track.

…students not wanting to take more than 3 classes per quarter

because they feel it is too much for them and they are concerned

about their GPA for graduate or professional schools.

…Students underperform in high-enrollment classes (e.g. BIS, CHE, PHY,

MAT) and sometimes retake those classes to get a better grade.

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Faculty Size: Degree Type

…Only so many .. upper division courses can be offered at a given time.

…The chief impediment for timely graduation is the small size of

the...faculty. ...Anticipated new faculty budget lines will be offset by

anticipated retirements and will not change this situation.

…The impediments faced by our majors deal with our inability to meet

student demand with our small faculty size.

…We need more TAs, which would allow us to offer larger classes

(assuming we can even get the classrooms to do so) AND more FTE.

…..insufficient numbers of qualified teaching staff, insufficient support

staff (including advising staff--one person for a total of 750 majors in

the Department) and the corresponding necessary resources. 4

…Insufficient faculty numbers relative to size of major.

…Lack of TA support to offer additional class sections.

…There is a lack of faculty and TAs for our courses.

Resources: Degree Type

…There seems to be agreement that we need more resources, but

disagreement about whether those resources should come from DSS or

upper campus. It is very frustrating.

…Despite the very high enrollments, .... has the highest student:TA

ratio in DSS (specifically, 250:1 in lecture courses), such that students

have very limited opportunity to meet with TAs for review and support.

Again, an increased instructional budget is needed to reduce that ratio

so that we can hire more TAs and provide the undergraduate students

with the necessary levels of support to foster their successful

completion of courses in a timely manner.

ba & bs

…The instructional budget for .... is insufficient to mount our program

at the levels needed by the students. For many classes, we can offer

only one or two sections with very high enrollment in a given quarter,

which provides little flexibility for students' schedules. We need to hire

7 to 10 more faculty to meet demands, bringing our department to 52

to 55 FTE, or our budget for hiring lecturers needs to be increased

substantially, so that we can offer more sections with smaller

enrollments.

ba & bs

….. While the department has taken every measure to ensure that

students can get into the classes they need in order to stay on their

four-year plan, this trend is not sustainable without significant

infrastructure support (e.g. laboratory space, equipment and

instrumentation, faculty, staff, and TA support).

…Not having the resources, both the faculty and the large classrooms,

to provide as many offerings or as large offerings as we would like.

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…The … department is willing to offer additional sections and/or

quarters of our courses in high demand, but will need additional

resources in order to do so.

…The necessary upper division labs are expensive, and we run them at

a considerable loss under the current budget model.

…We have implemented as a pilot a summer preparatory course to

qualify more of the incoming freshmen to enter freshman chemistry on

time …. but even if they qualify we probably won't have places to put

many of them.

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Double Majors: Degree Type

...Students choosing to complete a double major or additional minor ….

….students who are double majors are frequently stymied by

inconsistencies between different UCD schools' unit requirements…..

...Many of the …majors choose to double major. Often, it is their

second major or the fact that they are combining majors that impacts

the graduation rate.

…..students delayed graduation by choice to complete a minor, double

major, study abroad or take extra courses that were not required.

…A large number of our students pursue dual majors, minors, … The …

faculty wish to go on record as strongly opposing any policies that

would influence time to degree at the cost of penalizing students’

ability to participate in practical training experiences, which we view as

crucial to producing industry ready engineers to meet 21st century

challenges.

…Many.. students double major or add a minor, which slows them

down Insufficient course offerings (need to offer some courses each

quarter)

…Some students elect double majors or time intensive minors.

Hesitancy to Complete Degree: Degree Type

...it has been the experience our undergraduate faculty advisers that

not many students seem to make graduation in four years a high

priority

…A general misunderstanding exists among undergraduates that there

are no consequences in taking extra time to complete a degree.

…Students also are hesitant to leave the university (angst to find a job,

no clear prospective of what comes next, study abroad opportunities

etc.) even though they have fulfilled all necessary classwork.

…Students at UC Davis tend to enjoy living in Davis, which means they

often stay longer than four years.

…students choosing to take fewer units each quarter (for better

performance),

…students in no hurry to graduate

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vising: Degree Type

…Although mandatory advising appears to work well for the freshman,

older students often have trouble making an appointment during this

period.

ba & bs

….students’ progress towards their degree could be considerably

accelerated via improved advising to freshmen to help them have a

smooth transition to the university.

…Insufficient advising and teaching assistant resources:

…Lack of mandatory advising

…One of the most serious challenges to achieving a 4-year graduation

in the….. major involves internal advising of its students

ack of Preparedness of International Students: Degree Type

…Many of our students are international students with an inadequate

understanding of the English language.

…We are getting an increasing number of international students as

majors. However, many of them have inadequate English language

proficiency. As a result, they struggle in our upper division courses,

particularly with writing assignments.

…English as Second Language students facing challenges to English

reading and writing comprehension,

Lack of Prerequisite Checking in Lower Division Math and Physics Classes: Degree Type

…Inadequate preparation due to lack of prerequisite enforcement

primarily in lower division math and physics series.

…Students earning grades less than C- in lower division math and

physics series and moving on (prerequisites are not checked in math

and physics)

eneral Education Requirements: Degree Type

…Large general education course requirement.

…One way to increase student completion rates is require fewer GE

classes and let them begin taking upper div classes earlier.

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In October 2015 the Academic Senate Chair requested that all academic departments involve

their faculty in identifying factors that impede undergraduate degree completion within four

years for major programs within their department. Departments were invited to consider factors

that may exist at the department, college, or campus level. By March 2016, as requested,

departments submitted a wealth of information about factors that they view as impeding timely

progress to an undergraduate degree.

Challenge: Establish a Roadmap for Remedial Action and Actionable

Analysis

At the Senate Chair’s request, staff leaders from Institutional Analysis (Budget and Institutional

Analysis) and the Center for Educational Effectiveness (Office of the Vice Provost and Dean,

Undergraduate Education) have reviewed the departmental responses, summarized and

categorized them, and prioritized them for action or further analysis. The white paper that

follows recommends a roadmap for activities to (1) asses and quantify the relationship between

the identified obstacles and the four-year graduation rate and (2) identify and pursue remedial

actions. In general terms, the proposed roadmap is guided by the principle that action and

analysis are interdependent and should proceed in close iteration. Essentially, the purpose of

analysis should always be to guide action and policy—there is no analysis for its own sake.

Suggested specific priorities follow.

Proposed Principles to Guide the Roadmap

 Priority 1: Identify and enable near-term actions that have high potential to improve--or

avoid erosion of--retention and graduation rates. Analysis is focused on guiding the

implementation of actions to address KNOWN obstacles by methods that have been

proven to work either at UC Davis or elsewhere;

 Priority 2: Concurrent with priority 1 actions, if possible, begin or continue analytical

work that will have an intermediate term payoff of more clearly identifying or confirming

suspected obstacles and quantifying their impact; evaluate the impact of specific

curricular and co-curricular interventions already in progress, with the aim of improving

them; continue to build and roll out systems that will provide data needed to address

more complex matters of student behavior (prerequisite checking, Degree Works).

 Priority 3: As new data and analytics systems become available, open new projects to

address suspected obstacles that require analytical efforts/data beyond what is currently

possible/available.

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Proposed Roadmap by Priority

Priority 1

Obstacle 1A: Lack of classrooms/lack of space for TA discussions and support

activities/lack of curriculum scheduling coordination across departments:

 students can’t find seats in courses they need for minimum progress

 students don’t have sufficient discussion section opportunities to master course

content

 lack of curriculum coordination between departments leads to student curriculum

choices that cause delays (only partially addressed here in its course-scheduling

manifestation—see also priority 3)

Perhaps the most immediate short-term threat to the progress UC Davis has made with

respect to its 4-year graduation rate is the gap between student classroom seat demand

engendered by the steep increase in enrollment mandated by the state for Fall 2016 and

Fall 2017—this at a time when our new classroom construction efforts are one to two years

away from fruition.

Efforts are underway to temporarily augment our complement of general use classrooms in

order to bridge the gap [Undergraduate Education]. Applied analytics are needed to guide

this and further efforts. The following are proposed:

1. Seat demand projection by course and coordination of wait list management

require immediate improvement. Short-term (Fall 2016 and continuing )

April 2016: Analytical effort is underway needed to assess and inform dialog with the

Associate Deans about what more is necessary for Fall of 2016 and prepare for

freshman seat release. [BIA/Registrar]

July-December 2016: Develop an upper division seat demand prediction model by

course (focus on upper division laboratory courses?). Implement and discuss

implications with the Associate Deans, department chairs, and department/campus

space planners. [BIA/Registrar]

2. Wait list analysis and management/coordination of response among

UE/BIA/Associate Deans/Department Chairs. Short- and medium-term (Fall 2016

and continuing.)

May-December 2016: This is less a matter of analysis and more a matter of

organizational discipline and coordination. Analytically speaking, a more nimble way to

view waitlists and compare them to historical dynamics would be useful. Degree Works,

Ad Astra and other tools that the Registrar is acquiring/integrating with the SIS will help

with this. Organizationally speaking, we may need an experienced faculty hand or group

of them on point to regularly review evolving wait lists and work with the associate deans

and department chair to address emerging hot spots. [UE/BIA/Registrar]

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3. Enable operations analysis of room scheduling—optimization of scheduled

subject to multiple constraints. Course scheduling could be improved by acquisition

and application of analytical software that interfaces with the existing course scheduling

system to allow optimization of room scheduling subject to a multiple constraints

(including prerequisites, co-requisites, courses commonly taken together or in a well-

defined sequence).

July 2016 through June 2017: The Registrar has pointed out that a software plug-in is

available that would assist with this. Acquire and install the software. Work with

associate deans and department chairs to model known pain points and test possible

approaches. [UE/BIA/Registrar]

Obstacle 1B: Students consider factors other than time to completion in optimizing their

course taking behavior:

 students take fewer units to improve grades

 students take fewer courses/units to keep their schedule academically easier for

other reasons—work, extracurricular activities, just not in a hurry

 students pursue two or more majors, minors

 students make poor (time-costly) course choices—simply bad choices or

advising-related issues (not enough advisors, not enough properly trained

advisors)

 Students take extra (not required) courses

 Students take external (non-UC Davis) courses

These issues must be approached with sensitivity to students’ individual circumstances and

most likely in multiple stages. For example, many students must work to pay fees and living

expenses. Quite understandably, they adjust their academic schedule accordingly. While

the need to work might be addressed in the long run by changes in the University’s financial

aid and tuition practices, it would seem that the short term challenge is to meet these

students where they are—to help them bring time to degree back into their optimization

equation through sound advising and co-curricular support. Another approach might be to

work in more focused way with students who do not have these challenges—to help them

improve time to degree potentially through enhanced expectations/requirements for

minimum/cumulative academic progress (or more active enforcement of existing

expectations/requirements).

Difficult issues abound here—but other UC campuses arguably have faced these issues and

surmounted them. One of our immediate “analytical” tasks should be to learn all we can

from them and determine how their practices might inform ours. Much to be avoided, for

example, is any appearance of stigmatizing students as academically slow and thereby

creating self-fulfilling prophecies. Certainly there is the potential of doing harm by sacrificing

enrichment activities (study abroad, extended internships, meaningful work experience) on

the altar of time to degree. Yet at least two of our sister campuses, UC Irving and UC Santa

Barbara, with similar student bodies facing similar challenges, seem to have surmounted

these challenges and have gone on to achieve four year graduation rates in the high 60

percent range. Therefore, we propose:

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1. Learn what we can about minimum/cumulative progress policies and advising

practices from UC Santa Barbara and UC Irvine.

Summer and Fall 2016. Engage in a multi-session, structured dialog with academic and

administrative leadership at UCI and UCSB, focusing broadly on their efforts to increase

four-year graduation rates, and in particular on their policies and advising procedures

with respect to minimum and cumulative academic progress. Evaluate their policies and

practices and report out to the UC Davis community about conforming changes that

might help in our situation. Note that something similar to this exercise has occurred

several times in the UC Davis past with little notable result. A concerted, action oriented

partnership between Senate and Administration will be required to move this from talk to

action. [Academic Senate, UE, Student Affairs, BIA]

2. Assess: Does average # of unit taken per quarter affect GPA? Fall 2016 [UE, BIA]

3. Assess Impact of two or more majors and minors on time to degree

Summer 2016. Substantial work has been done by BIA on the time to degree impact of

double majors. This does not seem to be a factor. Review and confirm this work.

Assess feasibility of doing similar work for minors—but IF minors seem to be a factor,

and intervention is deemed desirable, may not be able to effectively intervene with

respect to minors until the Degree Works system is in place. UE will use its Department

Diagnostic Tool to get metrics out to the departments by summer’s end. Please see

below for an approach to the issue of switching majors or adding a major late. [BIA/UE]

Priority 2

Obstacle 2A: Students arrive at UC Davis underprepared for the curricula.

 Students lose time or do not graduate because are not adequately prepared;

 Student lose time or do not graduate because their lack of writing and other

English communication skills results in poor performance;

 Transfer students arrive missing key courses, or do not have enough experience

in coursework that is core to their major

1. Assess/quantify/understand impact of workload and ESL on graduation rate.

Provide information to advisors, chairs, associate deans about prevalence of

workload and ESL course taking among their majors.

July 2016 – ongoing. Design and execute analysis to understand the impact of workload

and ESL on graduation rate. What proportion of students participate in these courses?

How much does participation in these courses affect graduate rates? How does

participation in these courses affect time to degree (what specific course-taking

dynamics cause delays)? Should include analysis of student progress patterns AND

student focus groups. Ideally should be done in a praxis loop with program development

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under item 2, below—the point of this analysis is to guide interventions.

[BIA/UE/Student Affairs]

2. Continue to evolve interventions: Pre-enrollment (summer) academies? ALEKS

and similar prep systems? Co-curricular interventions (SASC, SA retention

initiatives)? Summer strategies for continuing students (if catch up and

acceleration are the aim—are we providing the right financial support, the right

courses)

July 2016 – ongoing. Design and execute organization-embedded feedback loops such

that there is a dynamic collaboration between (1) advisors, student services

professionals, and faculty who collaborating to produce interventions that help

underprepared students succeed and make timely progress and (2) analytical

practitioners. This collaboration should include planning and design of new programs

and evaluation of existing programs. [Student Affairs/UE/BIA].

Summer 2016 – ongoing. UE is seeing good evidence that ALEKS works for chemistry,

and ALEKS will be expanded to full scale for chemistry this summer. Math will begin to

experiment with ALEKS this coming summer and fall.

3. Develop analytical approaches to identifying progress obstacles in transfer

pathways and partner with practitioners seeking to create multi-segment

approaches to addressing obstacles.

July 2016 – June 2017. Pursue Koret/Intel-sponsored study of CCC to UC pathways for

engineering students. UE will develop a generic model for students in other disciplines

as part of this work. [UE, Student Affairs, BIA]

Obstacle 2B: Students don’t receive advising early enough in their undergraduate years;

don’t declare double majors until late in their undergraduate years.

Summer 2016. Review data from L&S mandatory freshman advising to see if it has

made a difference in first-year outcomes, particularly for students deemed to be “at risk.”

We will have to wait to see about a longer-term difference. [UE/BIA]

Obstacle 2C: Students get into academic difficulty and academic probation.

June 2016-July 2017. Assess the impact of academic probation on completion metrics

(Summer 2016). Assess factors that may lead to academic probation and develop a

predictive tool to identify students likely to have academic difficulty BEFORE it happens

(October 2016-May 2017). Work with the Academic Senate and Student Affairs to

develop non-stigmatic ways and means of early intervention. [UE/Student Affairs/BIA]

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Obstacle 2D: Students take too few hard prerequisite courses

June 2016-July 2017. Assess: Does number of hard courses taken influence completion

metrics (retention, time to degree, graduation rate, protecting gpa)? Requires an

operational definition of “hard”—Undergraduate Education is in the process of working

with students and faculty to define “hard.” [UE]

Obstacle 2E: Internships, courses abroad, and the Washington D.C. program can slow

students down.

June 2016-July 2018. Assess: What is the net impact of these programs on the

undergraduate student experience? On time to degree, gpa, post-graduation

employment and education outcomes? If we find that these experiences slow students

down, but improve other outcomes, what will we do—for example, how might we better

integrate them into students’ degree pathways? Courses abroad and DC programs

likely will be evaluated before December 2016. Data on internship participation will take

much longer to collect and evaluate. [UE/Global Affairs/ICC/Student Affairs/BIA]

Obstacle 2F: Students repeat courses or drop courses to improve a grade.

June 2016-July 2017. Assess relationship to time to degree and impact on gpa. Add to

Department Diagnostic Dashboard. Consider implications of policy changes. [UE,

Academic Senate]

Priority 3

Obstacle 3A: The GE program slows students down.

 There is insufficient access to lower division GE courses (Too few courses?

Courses not offered often enough—limited offering of key courses?)

 Breadth requirements are excessive?

June 2017-July 2018. Reassess the overall availability of seats in GE courses with

respect to student demand. This could be done earlier, if necessary/desirable—but it is

not a terribly helpful metric. Using data in OASIS/Degree Works, assess patterns of GE

course taking that may indicate that particular courses or topical breadth areas may be

impacted or otherwise problematic. Look for other student circumstances (workload

courses, ESL, for example) that may be correlated with delays in fulfilling GE

requirements. [UE, BIA]

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Obstacle 3B: Double majors and major changes slow students down.

June 2017-July 2018. Assess whether the timing of declaring a second major has an

impact on completion metrics. However, conclusive evidence may not emerge until

Degree Works is implemented—there is anecdotal evidence that students start down the

path to a double major well before they declare. Assess whether timing of a major

change has an impact on completion metrics—continue work by BIA and UE in this

regard. [BIA/UE]

Obstacles 3C: Socioeconomic distress and personal circumstances slow students

down. Some causes include:

 20-plus hours of work

 Commuting

 Health crises, both physica and mental

 Experiences of barriers to social or academic engagement, including experiences

of exclusion

June 2017-July 2018. Continue efforts in Student Affairs and Undergraduate Education

to evaluate the effectives of co-curricular and other student support programs with

respect to time to degree and other metrics of student success. Review data from

UCUES and exit surveys to gain further insights from students. [Student Affairs/UE/BIA]

Obstacle 3D: Prerequisites-related issues:

 There are too many prerequisites

 Some key prerequisites are not offered frequently enough—this may cause students to

take courses out of sequence and lead to adverse outcomes.

June 2017-June2018. Assess these issues after prerequisite clean up and prerequisite

checking are in place. [UE, Academic Senate]

Obstacle 3E: Lack of curricular coordination between departments slows student

down—courses not available when needed for optimal progress.

June 2017-2018. Evaluate when Degree Works and prerequisite checking are in place.

Likely will require interdepartmental faculty focus groups to define articulation issues

[UE/Academic Senate]

Obstacle 3F: Students have insufficient exposure to small discussion sections. This

results in sub-optimal mastery of course material. This is sometimes characterized in

terms of inability to hire sufficient numbers of TAs (suboptimal resource allocation

priorities), or too many students per TA on a course by course basis.

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July 2016-June 2017. Work with department chairs and Academic Senate to more fully

understand the pain points. This is difficult. A lot of descriptive data exists and can be

communicated to departments and decision makers (# of TAs by course, student/TA

ratio, department or course comparisons to disciplinary norms). However, a meaningful

discussion requires diving into how TAs are used, instructional resource allocation

priorities/decisions, and TA preparation/training/effectiveness. There is much variability

around campus with respect to all, and the tools for working through improvements are

in the hands of deans, department chairs and faculty to a substantial degree. [UE/BIA]

Guaranteed-to-Go Summer 2016 Courses

Guaranteed-to-Go Course List Summer 2016

College/Division Department

Course Name Course # Unit Value

# of Sections, Su

'16

1 or 2

CA&ES Animal Sci Raptor Biology AVS115 3 1

CA&ES ARE Intermed Microeconomics ARE100A 4 1

CA&ES ARE Intermed Microeconomics ARE100B 4 1

CA&ES ARE Econometrics ARE106 4 1

CA&ES ARE Organization Management ARE112 4 1

CA&ES ARE Economic Development ARE115A 4 1

CA&ES ARE Tax Accounting ARE118 4 1

CA&ES ARE Inter Managerial Acctg ARE119 4 1

CA&ES ARE Managerial Marketing ARE136 4 1

CA&ES ARE Personal Finance ARE142 3 1

CA&ES ARE Investments ARE143 4 1

CA&ES ARE Quant Anlys Bus Decision ARE155 4 1

CA&ES ARE Financial Management ARE171A 4 1

CA&ES ARE Business Law ARE018 4 1

CA&ES ESP General Ecology ESP100 4 1

CA&ES ESP Environmental Law ESP161 4 1

CA&ES ESP Env Impact Assessment ESP179 4 1

CA&ES FST Food, Folklore, & Health FST010 3 1

CA&ES Human Ecol The Community CRD001 4 1

CA&ES Human Ecol Infancy Early Child HDE100A 4 1

CA&ES Human Ecol Mid Childh & Adol HDE100B 4 1

CA&ES Human Ecol Adulthood And Aging HDE100C 4 1

CA&ES Human Ecol Cognitive Development HDE101/PSC141 4 1

CA&ES Human Ecol Social & Personal Devel HDE102/PSC142 4 1

CA&ES Human Ecol Cross-Cult Child HDE103 4 1

CA&ES Human Ecol Cont Amer Fam HDE110 4 1

CA&ES Human Ecol Human Sexuality HDE012 3 1

CA&ES Human Ecol Res Method Human Develop HDE120 4 1

CA&ES Human Ecol Soc Aspect Of Aging HDE160 4 1

CA&ES Human Ecol Longevity HDE117/ENT117 4 1

CA&ES Human Ecol Comm Dev and Env Just CRD149 4 1

CA&ES Human Ecol Adv Computer Application LDA120 4 1

CA&ES Human Ecol Cognitive Development PSC141 4 1

CA&ES Human Ecol Social & Personal Devel PSC142 4 1

CA&ES Nutrition Discov & Concepts NUT010 3 1

CA&ES Nutrition Curr Topics in Nutrition NUT011 2 1

CA&ES Nutrition Nutritional Anthropology NUT120AN 4 1

CA&ES Textiles & Clothing Consumer Behavior CNS100 3 1

CA&ES Human Ecol Longevity HDE117 4 1

CA&ES Animal Sci Molecular Biol Lab Tech ANG111 4 1

CA&ES LAWR Field Studies of Soils SSC105 5 1

CA&ES LAWR Field Studies of Soils in California Ecosystems SSC205 5 1

CBS

EVE

Introduction to Biology: Principles of Ecology and Evolution

BIS002B

5 1

CBS

EVE

Intro to Evolution

EVE100

2 2

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CBS

EVE

Introduction to Ecology

EVE101

2 1

CBS

MCB

Genes & Gene Expression

BIS101

1 2

CBS

MCB

Struc-Func Biomolecules

BIS102

1 1

CBS

MCB

Bioenergetics/Metabolism

BIS103

1 2

CBS

MCB

Cell Biology

BIS104

1 1

CBS

MCB

Biomolecules and Metabolism

BIS105

CBS

MCB

Molec Biol & Biochem Lab

MCB120L

1 Special

CBS

MMG

General Biology

BIS010

3 1

CBS

MMG

Introduction to Biology: Essentials of Life on Earth

BIS002A

6 1

CBS

MMG

Introduction to Biology: Essentials of Life on Earth

BIS002A

6 2

CBS

MMG

Nat Hist Infect Disease

MIC010

1 2

CBS

MMG

Intro Microbiology

MIC102

1 1

CBS

MMG

Intro Microbiology Lab

MIC103L

6 1

CBS

NPB

Neurobiology

NPB100

1 1

CBS

NPB

Systemic Physiology

NPB101

1 1

CBS

NPB

Systemic Physiology Lab

NPB101L

2 Special

CBS

NPB

Animal Behavior

NPB102

1 1

CBS

NPB

GI Physiology

NPB114

1 1

CBS

PLB

Introduction to Biology: Biodiversity and the Tree of Life

BIS002C

5 6

CBS - at Bodega Bay

MCB

Coastal Marine Research

BIS124

CBS - at Bodega Bay

EVE

Global Change Ecology

EVE120

COE Chemical Engr and Material Sci Design of Coffee ECM001 3 3 2

COE Chemical Engr and Material Sci Materials Properties ENG045Y 4 5 2

COE CS Intro to Programming ECS010 4 1 1

COE CS Algorithm Design ECS122A 4 1 2

COE CS Programming Languages ECS140A 4 1 2

COE CS Computer Architecture ECS154A 4 1 1

COE CS Ethics in an Age of Tech ECS188 4 1 1

COE CS Discrete Math for CS ECS020 4 1 1

COE CS Programming&Prob Solving ECS030 4 1 1

COE CS Machine Dependent Prog ECS050 4 1 1

COE CS Data Structures and Prog ECS060 4 1 2

COE ECE Circuits II EEC100 5 2 2

COE ECE Digital Systems I EEC180A 5 2 1

COE ECE Circuits I ENG017 4 1 1

COE ECE Circuits I ENG017 4 1 2

COE ECE Engineering Prob Solving ENG006 4 3 2

COE M&AE Drones and Quadcopters EAE010 2 1 1

COE M&AE Orbital Mechanics EAE142 4 1 2

COE M&AE Experimental Methods EME107A 3 10 1

COE M&AE Mechanical Design EME150A 4 1 1

COE M&AE Heat Transfer EME165 4 1 2

COE M&AE Auto Control of Engr Sys EME172 4 1 2

COE M&AE Dynamics ENG102 4 1 1

COE M&AE Fluid Mechanics ENG103 4 1 1

COE M&AE Thermodynamics ENG105 4 1 1

COE

Civil and Environmental Engineering Probabilistic Sys Anlys ECI114 4 1

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COE

Civil and Environmental Engineering Structural Analysis ECI130 4 1

COE

Civil and Environmental Engineering Struc Design: Concrete ECI135 4 1

COE

Civil and Environmental Engineering Engr Hydraulics ECI141 3 1

COE

Civil and Environmental Engineering Hydraulics Lab ECI141L 1 2

COE

Civil and Environmental Engineering Water Quality Management ECI148A 4 1

COE Engineering Mech of Materials ENG104 4 1

COE Engineering Statics ENG035 4 2

COE M&AE Manufacturing Processes EME050 4 3 2

DSS ANT Human Evolutionary Bio

ANT001

4 1 1

DSS ANT Human Evolutionary Bio

ANT001

4 1 2

DSS ANT Cultural Anthro

ANT002

4 1 1

DSS ANT Cultural Anthro

ANT002

4 1 2

DSS ANT Intro to Archaeology

ANT003

4 1 1

DSS ANT Human Osteology

ANT156A

4 1

DSS ECON Analysis of Econ Data ECN102 4 1

DSS ECON Intermed Micro Theory ECN100 4 2

DSS ECON Intermed Macro Theory ECN101 4 2

DSS ECON Princ Of Microecon ECN001A 4 2

DSS ECON Princ Of Macroecon ECN001B 4 2

DSS HIST Ancient History HIS111B 4 1

DSS LIN Intro Linguistics LIN001 4 1

DSS LIN Global English Comm LIN005 4 1

DSS Philosophy Critical Reasoning PHI005 4 2 1 & 2

DSS Philosophy Phil Of Biology PHI108 4 1 2

DSS Philosophy Intro to Symbol Logic PHI012 4 1 1

DSS Philosophy Bioethics PHI015 4 1 1

DSS Philosophy Intro Phil Science PHI030 4 1 2

DSS Philosophy Scientific Reason PHI031 4 1 2

DSS Philosophy Intro Philosophy of Biol PHI038 4 1 1

DSS Political Sci Scientific Study Politic POL051 4 1

DSS Psychology General Psychology PSC001 4 2

DSS Psychology Cognitive Psychology PSC100 and/or 100Y 4 2

DSS Psychology Intro to Psychobiology PSC101 4 2

DSS Psychology Developmental Psychology PSC140 4 1

DSS Psychology Cognitive Development PSC141/HDE101 4 1

DSS Psychology Social & Personal Devel PSC142/HDE102 4 1

DSS Psychology Social Psychology PSC151 4 1

DSS Psychology Psychology of Emotion PSC154 4 1

DSS Psychology Abnormal Psych PSC168 4 1

DSS Psychology Research Meth in Psych PSC041 4 2

DSS Sociology Intro Sociology SOC001 5 2 1 & 2

DSS Sociology Self And Society SOC002 4 1 1

DSS Sociology Social Problems SOC003 4 1 2

DSS Sociology Sociological Theory SOC100 4 1 1

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DSS Sociology Political Sociology SOC118 4 1 2

DSS Sociology Soc Of Adolescence SOC122 4 1 2

DSS Sociology Social Interaction SOC126 4 1 1

DSS Sociology The Family SOC131 4 1 1

DSS Sociology Gender SOC132 4 1 2

DSS Sociology Social Relationships SOC135 4 1 2

DSS Sociology Sociology Of Law SOC155 4 1 2

DSS Sociology Violence and Inequality SOC171 4 1 1

DSS Sociology Intro Social Rsch SOC046A 4 1 1

DSS Sociology Int Social Research SOC046B 5 1 2

DSS ANT Soc-Cultural Theory

ANT100

4 1 1

DSS ANT Human Evolution

ANT152

5 1 2

DSS ANT Human Biol Variation

ANT153

5 1 1

DSS ANT Primate Evol Ecology

ANT154BN

5 1 2

DSS ANT Human Osteology

ANT156A

4 1 2

DSS COM Intro Public Speaking CMN001 4 11

DSS COM Interprsnl Com Competnce CMN003 4 7

DSS COM Communication Theories CMN101 4 1

DSS COM Empircal Methods Commun CMN102 4 1

DSS COM Interpersonal Commun CMN120 4 1

DSS COM Intro Mass Communication CMN140 4 1

DSS COM Digital Technology CMN170V 4 1

DSS COM Computer-Mediated Comm CMN172 4 1

DSS HIST History Of The U S HIS017A 4 1

DSS HIST History Of The U S HIS017B 4 1

DSS LIN Linguistic Analysis I LIN103A 4 1

DSS LIN Linguistic Analysis II LIN103B 4 1

DSS LIN English Grammar LIN106 4 1

DSS Philosophy Intro to Symbol Logic PHI012 4 2 2

DSS Political Sci Amer Natl Govt POL001 4 1

DSS Political Sci Internatl Relations POL003 4 1

DSS Political Sci Bas Cnpt/Pol Thry POL004 4 1

DSS Psychology Developmental Psychobiol PSC113 4 1

DSS Psychology Physiological Psychology PSC121 4 1

DSS Psychology Health Psychology PSC126 4 1

DSS Psychology Language and Cognition PSC132 4 1

DSS Psychology Cognitive Neuroscience PSC135 4 1

DSS Psychology Social Psychology PSC151 4 1

DSS Psychology Stereotyping, Prejudice, and Stigma PSC157 4 1

DSS Sociology Race Relations SOC130 4 1

HArCS African American Studies Ethnicity in the US AAS100 4 1 1

HArCS African American Studies The Black Femal Experience in Contemporary Society AAS123 4 1 2

HArCS American Studies Food in American Culture AMS055 4 1

HArCS Arabic Intensive Elem Arabic ARB001A 15 1 Special

HArCS Chinese Intensive Elem Chinese CHN001A 15 1 Special

HArCS Comparative Literature Majo Bks Mid Ages to Enl COM002 4 1 1

HArCS Comparative Literature Mjr Bks Contemp World COM004 4 1 2

HArCS Design Letterforms and Type DES115 4 1 1

HArCS Design VisCom: Graphic Design DES116 4 1 2

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HArCS Design Graphics & The Computer DES016 4 3 1, 2

HArCS English Intro To Literature ENL003 4 3 1, 2

HArCS French Elementary French FRE001 5 1 1

HArCS French Elementary French FRE002 5 1 2

HArCS French Elementary French FRE003 5 1 2

HArCS German Intensive Elementary German GER001A 15 1 Special

HArCS Human Rights Human Wrongs/Human Rights HMR001 4

HArCS Human Rights Genocide HMR131 4 1 2

HArCS Japanese Intensive Elem Japanese JPN001A 15 1 Special

HArCS Native American Studies Introduction to Native American Lit NAS005 4 1 1

HArCS Spanish Intensive Elem Spanish SPA001A 15 1 Special

HArCS Spanish Elementary Spanish SPA001 5 2 1, 2

HArCS Spanish Elementary Spanish SPA002 5 2 1, 2

HArCS Spanish Elementary Spanish SPA002V 5 1 1

HArCS Spanish Elementary Spanish SPA003 5 2 1, 2

HArCS Spanish Elementary Spanish SPA003V 5 1 2

HArCS Undergraduate Writing Program Intro ESL Writing UWP021 5 3 2

HArCS Undergraduate Writing Program Interm ESL Writing UWP022 4 5 1, 2

HArCS Undergraduate Writing Program Advan ESL Writing UWP023 4 3 1, 2

HArCS Undergraduate Writing Program Expository Writing UWP001 4 6 1, 2

HArCS Undergraduate Writing Program Advanced Composition UWP101 4 28 1, 2

HArCS Undergraduate Writing Program Writing in Engineering UWP102E 4 1 2

HArCS Undergraduate Writing Program Business Writing UWP104A 4 8 1, 2

HArCS Undergraduate Writing Program Legal Writing UWP104B 4 3 1, 2

HArCS Undergraduate Writing Program Writing in Education UWP104D 4 1 2

HArCS Undergraduate Writing Program Writing in Science UWP104E 4 3 1, 2

HArCS Undergraduate Writing Program Writing in Health Prof UWP104F 4 2 1, 2

HArCS Undergraduate Writing Program Expository Writing UWP001V 4 1 1

HArCS Undergraduate Writing Program Expository Writing UWP001Y 4 2 1, 2

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Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies

Intro to Feminist Theory WMS103 4 1

MPS Chemistry Concept Of Chem CHE010 4 1 1

MPS Chemistry Analytical and Physical Chemical Methods CHE105 4 1 1

MPS Chemistry Adv Bio-organic Chem Lab CHE135 3 2 2

MPS Chemistry Phys Chem Life Sci CHE107A 3 1 1

MPS Chemistry Phys Chem Life Sci CHE107B 3 1 2

MPS Chemistry Phys Chem: Atoms & Molec CHE110B 4 1 1

MPS Chemistry Phys Chem: Thermo & Kin CHE110C 4 1 2

MPS Chemistry Organic Chem Health Sci CHE118A 4 7 1

MPS Chemistry Organic Chem Health Sci CHE118B 4 9 2

MPS Chemistry Organic Chem Health Sci CHE118C 4 13 1

MPS Chemistry Inorg Fundamentals CHE124A 3 1 1

MPS Chemistry General Chem CHE002A 5 10 1

MPS Chemistry General Chem CHE002B 5 14 2

MPS Chemistry General Chem CHE002C 5 15 1

MPS Chemistry Organic Chemistry-Brief CHE008A 2 1 1

MPS Chemistry Organic Chemistry-Brief CHE008B 4 19 1 & 2

MPS EPS Paleobiology GEL107 3 2 1 & 2

MPS EPS Summer Field Geology GEL110 8 1 Special

MPS EPS Biological Oceanography (Also listed as course ESP150C) GEL150C 4 1 2

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MPS EPS Intro to Earth Science GEL002 3 1 1

MPS EPS History Of Life GEL003 3 2 1 & 2

MPS Math Precalculus MAT012 3 1 2

MPS Math Applied Linear Algebra MAT167 4 1 1

MPS Math Short Calculus MAT016A 3 2 1 & 2

MPS Math Short Calculus MAT016B 3 4 1 & 2

MPS Math Short Calculus MAT016C 3 2 1 & 2

MPS Math Calculus MAT021A 4 2 1 & 2

MPS Math Calculus MAT021B 4 2 1 & 2

MPS Math Calculus MAT021C 4 3 1 & 2

MPS Math Vector Analysis MAT021D 4 3 1 & 2

MPS Math Linear Algebra MAT022A 3 3 1 & 2

MPS Math Linear Algebra Comp Lab MAT022AL 1 2 1 & 2

MPS Math Differential Equations MAT022B 3 5 1 & 2

MPS Physics Principles Physics PHY001A 3 1 1

MPS Physics General Physics PHY007A 4 8 1 & 2

MPS Physics General Physics PHY007B 4 10 1 & 2

MPS Physics General Physics PHY007C 4 12 1 & 2

MPS Physics Classical Physics PHY009A 5 2 1

MPS Physics Classical Physics PHY009B 5 3 1

MPS Physics Classical Physics PHY009C 5 2 2

MPS Physics Modern Physics PHY009D 4 2 1

MPS Physics (Astronomy) Astro of Solar System AST010S 3 1 1

MPS Statistics Elementary Statistics STA013 4 4 1 & 2

MPS Statistics Applied Stat for Bio Sci STA100 4 4 1 & 2

MPS Statistics Applied Statistics STA103 4 2 1

MPS Statistics Analy Of Variance STA106 4 2 1

MPS Statistics Regression Analysis STA108 4 2 1

MPS Chemistry Lab Methods Inorg Chem CHE124L 2 1 2

MPS Chemistry Organic Chem Lab CHE129A 2 1 1

MPS EPS Evolution & Paleobiology of Dinosaurs GEL012 2 1 1

MPS EPS The Oceans GEL016 3 1 1

MPS EPS Earthquakes and Other Hazards GEL017 2 1 2

MPS Math Advanced Calculus MAT025 4 1 2

MPS Math Intro Abstract Math MAT108 4 1 2

MPS Math Combinatorics MAT145 4 2 2

MPS Math Number Theory MAT115A 4 2 1

MPS Math Real Analysis MAT125A 4 1 1

MPS Math Real Analysis MAT125B 4 1 2

MPS Math Modern Algebra MAT150A 4 1 2

MPS Math Calculus for BioSci MAT017A 4 2 1 & 2

MPS Math Calculus for BioSci MAT017B 4 1 1

MPS Math Calculus for BioSci MAT017C 4 1 2

GSM Management Mnging & Using Info Tech MGT120 4 1

GSM Management Mktg for Tech Enterprise MGT140 4 1

GSM Management Technology Management MGT150 4 1

GSM Management Financing New Bus Vent MGT160 4 1

GSM Management Managing Costs & Quality MGT170 4 1

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GSM Management Elementary Accounting MGT011A 4 1

GSM Management Elementary Accounting MGT011B 4 1

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Annual Budget Meeting

March 18, 2016

UC Davis Team: Chancellor Katehi

Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Ralph Hexter

Davis Division Chair André Knoesen

Vice Chancellor and CFO Dave Lawlor

Chief of Staff Karl Engelbach

Sr. Associate Vice Chancellor Kelly Ratliff

Attachment #4

Today’s agenda

1. Financial Health

2. Revenue growth and efficiencies

3. Student Success programs and metrics

4. Faculty Diversity

5. Capital and DM Planning

6. Campus Vision

UC Davis Campus Goals Recap

GOAL METRICS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Improve Time-to-Degree –

increase four-year rate from 55%

to at least 75%

• Four-year rate for most recent cohort increased to 58%. Most recent six-year rate was an all

time high of 85%.

• Number of first year and undeclared students receiving advising

• Number of academic advisors and participation rates in training programs

Improve financial health and

financial tracking

• Implement multi-year forecasting models and Capital Improvement Master Plan; track

financial results against model

• Implement Financial Sustainability Action Plan – achieve $250M recurring

• Increase Research awards to $1 Billion annually

Sustain and increase philanthropic

support

• Dollars raised, number of visits, number of donors ($115M to-date towards $200M goal)

• Plan and launch second comprehensive campaign

Strengthen Diversity and Inclusion • Improve faculty, staff and student diversity

• Complete Strategic Plan by June 2016 and proceed with implementation

• Achieve HSI designation by 2018-19

Develop framework for University

of 21

Century

• Receive and analyze Big Ideas – 192 received and 50 under active review

• Develop concept plans for Davis-X and additional campus

• Complete LRDP for 2017-2027

Sustained excellence in health

system programs

• Complete Strategic Plan in 2016

• Financial health metrics

University of the 21

Century:

Focus on Financial Health

• Clear financial principles

• Multi-year, all funds framework

• New tools:

o Economic model tracking debt and financial ratios

o Quarterly sources and uses reporting for each

school, college and division

o Quarterly CFO Financial Results Report

o Capital Improvement Master Plan and

comprehensive Deferred Maintenance Plan

Campus Finances

2015–16 Revenues:

$4.3 Billion

Financial Health

Sustain net position during period of investment

Financial Health – Economic Model

2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20

Actuals Model Model Model Model Model

Campus Revenues and Other Income (selected rows)

Student Tuition and Fees, net $460,452 $493,500 $544,200 $590,800 $631,600 $665,900

State Educational Appropriations 375,120 389,600 404,100 418,600 429,300 440,100

Federal Grants and Contracts 283,823 289,800 304,300 319,500 335,500 352,300

Indirect Cost Return 120,220 123,500 128,000 132,700 137,600 142,700

Educational Activities, net 400,558 414,800 433,700 450,900 465,600 479,000

Private funds and Auxiliary 213,015 221,600 230,400 241,500 249,500 257,500

General Campus Revenues $2,278,902 $2,367,860 $2,500,660 $2,620,360 $2,724,960 $2,822,960

Campus Expenses and Other Uses (selected rows)

Salaries and Wages $1,202,514 $1,254,300 $1,325,500 $1,389,800 $1,445,600 $1,497,000

Benefits 445,758 472,700 503,800 536,400 566,400 595,200

All other expenses and transfers 509,757 524,100 545,700 565,500 577,200 582,000

Capital Debt Service 81,288 82,800 82,200 86,000 85,300 83,600

General Campus Expenses 2,239,317$ 2,333,900$ 2,460,300$ 2,587,400$ 2,688,100$ 2,775,800$

Campus Net Available for Investment $39,585 $33,960 $40,360 $32,960 $36,860 $47,160

Medical Center

Total Operating Revenue 1,723,966$ 1,774,492$ 1,863,536$ 1,956,730$ 2,054,584$ 2,157,037$

Total Operating Expenses 1,688,974 1,746,126 1,824,402 1,922,007 2,047,975 2,106,809

Net Non-Operating Revenue 11,622 5,843 7,874 9,539 9,975 12,524

Medical Center Net Income 46,614$ 34,209$ 47,008$ 44,262$ 16,584$ 62,752$

Local financial management

tool with cross-walk to financial

schedules

Parameter driven modeling for

revenue, expenses and other

cash flow items

Financial Health

2015-16

Selected Units

(amounts in millions)

Sources

of Funds

Uses of

Funds

Source

less

Use

Investments or

other use of

Reserves

Net Budgeted

Operating

Position