December 8, 2014—Creating a STEM College would align UD with contemporary strategic and policy goals in education from K-12. It would promote collaboration among STEM related faculty and students. It would differentiate UD from many comparator schools and strengthen...
December 8, 2014—Would like to see better security around campus. There are too many robberies. Students and staff do not even feel safe walking to their vehicles.
December 5, 2014—The UD of the future will have administrative IT staff that is robust and forward thinking. Students request, and staff support, technical improvements to UDSIS and WebReg, but the technical resources are sorely...
December 3, 2014—For the last two semesters, UD faculty have had access to a “Monday Motivator” in an effort to increase writing, specifically of peer reviewed journal articles. As academics, our strongest product is our publication record, preferably in...
November 23, 2014—I wonder if it would be possible to gather all of the education programs together into one college–either a college of education or a college of professional studies. Right now there are education programs, including programs that grant...
November 20, 2014—We need an Office of Sustainability here at UD, someone in charge of environmental issues to make us a greener campus which will help Delaware Shine.
November 19, 2014—Flextime, maternity, and paternity policies must be implemented as core benefits at UD. Millennials are more interested in quality of life and integrating work-home passions with entrepreneurial spirit than a simple paycheck. Employers failing to...
November 17, 2014—Modify the RBB algorithm for teaching revenue so that it increases linearly with enrollment for courses with up to about 20 students, but thereafter grows more slowly for enrollments between 20 and 50 students, and levels off for enrollments above...
November 17, 2014—UD should institute an `off-peak’ tuition program, discounted by about 20%, for students who take courses after 5 PM on weekdays and/or on weekends, when relatively few classrooms are being used. Some regular faculty who don’t have...
November 14, 2014—We believe that an Office of Sustainability will strongly enhance UD’s effort to achieve our sustainability goals as we move forward with the university’s strategic plan. It will serve as a catalyst to allow UD to join and then surpass its peer and...
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