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Dear Academic Affairs Colleagues, 

Thank you for sharing your views and guidance on restructuring our non-degree-granting colleges (Graduate College, Honors College, and University College) and Office of Global Education (OGE). More than 180 of you responded and provided comments on the survey of the proposed models. Your counsel will help direct our ongoing actions to decrease administrative structures and optimize our services and resources in order to reduce redundancies and maximize their impact. Thank you.

The results of the community feedback show a slight preference for the two-structure model (47%) over the one-structure model (41%), while the CACs of the three non-degree-granting colleges each endorsed the two-structure model, as did the staff of OGE. 

The full results of the survey are included in the . Briefly, the most noted benefits of the one-college model were related to reduction of redundancies, increased amount of savings, and streamlined services for students. The noted benefits of the two-college model were clear delineation of and less complication for delivering services and better opportunities to act with expertise, speed, and immediacy to support students.

The current Proposed Model is somewhat a combination of the two versions previously proposed. The two-college model that aligns University College and Graduate College into one College, and aligns Honors College and the Office of Global Education into a second college is presented for your feedback. However based on your feedback, in the Proposed Model, we identified opportunities to lift some services and resources to a “shared” system, as we did in the degree-granting colleges' final model. The proposed model shares financial management, marketing and outreach, alumni and fundraising, and other tasks among both Colleges and retains specific work unique to the new Colleges in their units. 

We anticipate the cost savings of this model to be somewhere between the $1 and $1.3 million we forecasted. 

Please review the new and provide your feedback via our website by April 11, 2025. The Honors, Graduate, and University College CACs will review the model as well, and I invite all other CACs and OGE to do the same. Our goal is to propose a model to the Faculty Senate in April.

Again, thank you for your engagement and thoughtful advice as we continue to move forward in restructuring Academic Affairs.

My best,

Melody 

Melody Tankersley, PhD
Executive Vice President and Provost
Division of Academic Affairs