Objective A: Expand marketing and recruitment efforts in the region and beyond, including out of state.
University Advancement
Award-winning publications
The Office of Communications and Marketing supported enrollment growth and donor giving with brand building and Addy award-winning communications that enhanced awareness and the reputation of Wright State University among key stakeholders.
Objective B:
Diversify and enrich curriculum and make it more accessible, responsive, and flexible.
Raj Soin College of Business
Transforming learning into practice
By practicing what they learned, nine students helped their employer save a projected $10 million. The Raj Soin College of Business students in the M.S. in Logistics and Supply Chain Management Program worked on projects for the Air Force Material Command (AFMC) at Wright-Patterson AFB. The projects streamlined different aspects of their employer's supply chain, thereby demonstrating the return on investment in their educational pursuits.
Objective C:
Recruit and retain a nationally/regionally diverse, learning-centered faculty and staff.
University College
Enriching our talent
More than 900 faculty and staff participated in nearly 100 professional development workshops offered by the Center for Teaching and Learning.
Objective D:
Enhance the academic success of students by creating a learning-centered environment, improving upon current facilities, programs, co-curricular activities, and technology.
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Learning innovations that make a difference
Dr. Nate Klingbeil, associate professor of mechanical engineering, is building a course model that will help increase the likelihood of success among freshman engineering students. Klingbeil, as a lead faculty member, has developed a novel freshman-level engineering mathematics course (EGR 101) as part of an NSF-funded curriculum-reform initiative at Wright State University.
A problem that plagues engineering programs across the country, and at Wright State, is that more than half of aspiring engineering and computer science majors switch majors in their freshman year after unsuccessful attempts to master freshman calculus, which is traditionally a prerequisite to taking core engineering courses. EGR 101 is taught by engineering faculty and includes lecture, laboratory, and recitation components. Using an application-oriented, hands-on approach, the course addresses only the salient math topics actually used in a variety of core engineering courses.
The Wright State innovative course model was first offered in fall 2004 and winter 2005. An initial evaluation of student results indicates that the course motivates students to study math and engineering and provides them with the skills to succeed.
Business and Fiscal Affairs
Successful launch
Banner Admissions, the first of the Banner Student software suite, went "live" on schedule, July 26. Newly admitted students for summer and fall 2006 are now being processed using Banner instead of SIS. While detail implementation and configuration activities continue over the coming months, staff in the Admissions offices will be getting better acquainted with their new software application and assisting those in the colleges that will begin using Banner Admissions for applicant processing.
Other Banner Student software modules will be deployed in the coming months, with a portion of Financial Aid scheduled to go live in October and the remaining Student modules in March and April of 2006.
