组织变革

发送日期:2023年9月29日

发件人:文森特·J. 德尔·卡西诺., Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs

亲爱的同事们,

I am writing with an update on the organizational structure of College of Professional and Global 教育 (CPGE) in the Division of Academic Affairs. 你们很多人都知道， over the years, CPGE has grown to encompass both academic departments and professional and global education service departments. Last year, I asked a Working Group to come together to review the overall organizational structure of CPGE and make recommendations about how the college should be organized to optimally serve our students and university.

Following on the report/recommendations of the Working Group, I am pleased to announce that all the professional and global education service units currently included in Professional and Global 教育 (PGE) will move under an Associate Vice Provost for Professional and Continuing 教育. Namrata "Nami" Shukla will be named to 这个职位. AVP Shukla will report to Vice Provost Ron Rogers within Academic 创新 and Institutional Effectiveness. The academic departments -- the School of Information and the Department of Applied Data 科学 -- will remain in the College of Professional and Global 教育 under an Interim Dean, Mike Meth, who will also continue in his role as Dean of the 菠菜网lol正规平台 国王库. These changes will be in effect October 1, 2023. I want to thank Nami for her leadership of CPGE over the last year.

This is just a first step in the reorganization process, as the academic college, which includes two academic departments, over 3,000 majors by headcount, and nearly 40 full-time equivalent faculty, will need to be renamed. 我已经给临时政府下达了任务 Dean with leading that effort. The Working Group also recommended that Global 教育, writ large, be elevated into a separate area. We are going to examine this possibility as well, but, at this time, we will keep that area merged with professional and continuing education until we can better assess the long-term optimal organizational strategy. At the same time, I want to let every一个 know that this reorganization does not impact the state-supported budget, and state dollars are not coming from other academic areas to make these changes possible. And, while a college with two departments is somewhat uncommon in the CSU, the reality is that 菠菜网lol正规平台 has long been a leader in information and library science as well as applied data science and this college will help elevate this brand and aid our recruitment 努力 of resident CA and non-resident students. A re-named college will further enhance our ability to tell the story about these 独特的校园优势.

As with any such change, there are always a lot of questions. 我将分享我所知道的 have shared with every一个 in the current CPGE: the work of every department in the current college is vital to the campus and to our strategic plan, including our enrollment 努力. This is not a cost-saving strategy in the face of budget changes. 我们需要 to invest in these areas if we are to meet our ambitious growth goals. 投资 will have to come from non-state funds as much as possible and when appropriate. In the meantime, the Continuing and 专业教育 and Global 教育 teams will continue to partner with the academic colleges to deliver outstanding degree completion undergraduate education, world-class professional and graduate education, and important programs for international students and study abroad programs to thousands 每学期更多的学生.

I want to thank the Working Group, which was co-chaired by Karthika Sasikumar and 萨米Monsur and included Alan Wong, Sandy Hirsh, Simon Shim, Ruchi Mehta, Anthony Chow, Ron Rogers, and Sharon Wiley, for their valuable work. 他们做了很多 recommendations but the final decisions outlined above rest with me, and I appreciate having such a robust review to guide those decisions.

As always, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.

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