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I'm Kent Rollins, director of the Arizona Alumni Association. Joining me today as co host is Aaron McBride. Aaron is this year's you have a student body president, every month we get together and take a look at some aspect of the University of Arizona. If you watch this program, you're obviously interested in the university and the many programs and services it offers to the people of our state. Because of the interest shown by so many of you, we thought we'd use the next three or four programs to take an in depth look at just how the university operates, how the whole organization works. To do this, we are inviting several vice presidents to get into specifics about their respective divisions of the university. We're fortunate today to have with us Dr. Niels hassanal, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, Dr. hassel. Welcome.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=54.0,101.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Thank you very much, Aaron,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=102.0,102.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: thank you for being with us as well.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=103.0,104.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Can you hear","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=105.0,105.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: me I was I'd like to start out you came from a very prestigious institution, University of Minnesota left the job I think somewhat similar to you have what you have now, you must have come in with some expectations three years ago, maybe a challenge that you saw at UVA, what was that challenge? I","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=106.0,123.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: can't it's true that I did leave an institution that I liked very much. And I had a very enjoyable job there. I was vice president for administration and planning. There was a special excitement about the University of Arizona, that really was the basic reason why I decided to change jobs. And I have not been disappointed in the three years that I have been here now. I felt that Arizona was already a good university, a very good university in certain respects. But it was also a university that had very, very strong aspirations for the future, a university that seemed to be very determined to become better, and become one of the leading public universities in this country. That was basically that challenge that made me decide to change jobs.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=124.0,174.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: So you see this and maybe as a growing institution, academically,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=175.0,179.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: it's a university that has made great strides in the last 10 to 15 years. And it has moved very significantly among universities, it's always difficult to decide and determine exactly, you know, where universities rank in the pecking order, so to speak among American universities. But even before I had any idea I was going to end up in Arizona, I had noticed that in the various rankings, the University of Arizona had made rather spectacular gains,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=180.0,213.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: to give our viewers some flavor for the scope of your job. Tell us a little bit about the size of the student body, the number of colleges we have, what's the current size, graduate and undergraduate.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=214.0,227.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: We have, as of this fall, we have actually the largest enrollment in the history of the university. And it's now slightly over 31,000 students, but those about 7000 are graduate students and the others are undergraduates.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=228.0,242.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: About the number of faculty how many","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=243.0,243.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: we have about 1600 regular faculty members, and they are divided among a dozen different two colleges, each of them headed by by a dean. Okay,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=244.0,256.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: and how about the overall budget? What's the size of the current budget?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=257.0,259.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Well, the size of the budget is actually about $400 million, but that includes a lot of SoCal auxiliaries and so forth, and it includes about $116 million in outside research funding. So the regular budget for the teaching enterprise and support services is a little over $200 million.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=260.0,281.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: How about the in terms of the number of courses in round numbers? Where are we today?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=282.0,286.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Well, we teach well over 5000 different courses, and they are divided into well over 100 different degree programs that the graduate undergraduate level and in the professional schools.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=287.0,303.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: I know we used to say when I did High School recruitment for some time that you could start on almost any career at the institution, because I think at that time we hit 135 undergraduate majors alone. So that's right. Are we growing from that point on? Or are we staying about that level?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=304.0,319.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Well, we are we are growing still in, in diversity. And this is, of course, one of the marks of, of a major public university, that in many ways we serve almost every constituency you can imagine in the state. And we have national and international responsibilities as well. So you can almost say about a republic university that nothing human is alien to such an institution.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=320.0,347.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Okay. What is your exact role or responsibility as the academic vice president or Provost?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=348.0,354.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Well, the deans of the colleges report directly to me so that ultimately, I'm responsible for the entire academic area. I'm called the chief academic officer. And that means that I'm responsible for programs I'm responsible for the hiring of faculty, and I'm responsible for budget and ultimately also for the facilities used for academic programs.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=355.0,377.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Can you comment? Again, for our viewers? What do you see the mission of the university as far as the state of Arizona, the people of Arizona What? Why do we exist?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=378.0,388.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Well, the University usually describes its mission as having three major components, teaching, research, and service. And under research, we include not only scientific research, but also humanistic scholarship and creative activities by the fine arts faculty. So those are the three cornerstones so to speak, teaching, research and service. Okay, the University started as a as a land grant institution, which means that it was designed primarily to serve agriculture and industry in a what was then a fledgling territory, yet to become a state. And gradually, we, the University developed arts and sciences programs to supplement the basically professional programs that were the beginnings of the university.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=389.0,446.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Okay. Dr. hasim off, you'll let me take a break here. We're going to come back in just a moment, and we're going to ask Aaron about some of the issues concerning students in their education. So please stay with us.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=447.0,469.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Welcome back to Arizona alumni.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=470.0,473.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Welcome back to Arizona alumni forum. I'm Kent Rollins, director of the Alumni Association. My co host today is Aaron McBride, our student body president. And our guest is Dr. Niels hasim. Oh, Provost and Senior Vice President for the University of Arizona. Aaron is student body president, what are the kinds of academic issues that come to you? What are the students talking to you about?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=474.0,494.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: I think, since I took term over, took my turn in May, I've had a lot of discussion with some of the undergraduates, and I think it seems to be the use of the teaching assistants in the classroom versus a full professor, especially in the large lecture halls. And in the math and English department. They've also talked about the quality of academic advising, and the accessibility to the faculty members, the to the professors. And they've also mentioned the quality the lab facilities in the classroom, the atmosphere, the classroom. And we've had a few students mentioned, really talk to me extensively about the emphasis they feel is being placed on research as opposed to basic undergraduate education at the VA.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=495.0,536.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: And I understand you and Dr. hassle have talked previously, because of both of your positions about some of the things that are happening, maybe this is your chance to put them on the spot.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=537.0,546.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Promise hasmukh. Critics say that we've excelled in research at the expense of basic undergraduate education. I was curious as if, if you would share with us maybe what the university is done now and in the future to strengthen that basic undergraduate education. Because I think that you can have a quality research into institution. But that's not that's not exclusive exclusive of having a sound strong, basic undergraduate program.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=547.0,572.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Eric and I have had an opportunity since we meet every other week to discuss these issues together with some of her colleagues in student government. And I must say that it has been been very rewarding to have this ongoing contact with a student leadership at a university and I've had that now for the three years that I've been here. And there's absolutely no question but that the programmatic planning that we have done has been informed ones by the views that the students have expressed in many different ways. I don't. One of my favorite ideas is that the university is not either a research institution or a teaching institution, but that somehow the two have to go hand in hand. It is true that in certain parts of the university and at certain stages in the development of an institution, there can be a tension between the two. That is, research may be emphasized more than teaching or at another stage teaching may be emphasized more than research, I feel that the university has achieved a reasonably good balance between research and teaching. But there are areas where we very definitely need to strengthen our teaching program, what I hope to see and what I think is the very the strength, and special strength of an institution like this is that because we have a research faculty, a scholarly faculty, we can offer an education that is of a special quality. And this is true, of course, especially at the graduate level, where it's absolutely necessary to have a strong research faculty to offer graduate and professional programs. But I think also at the undergraduate level, especially on the undergraduate majors, that having a research faculty can be a very great asset to the educational program. But it doesn't come by itself. And it means that the faculty and the administration have to be on their guard all the time to make sure that that proper balance exists.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=573.0,702.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: progress has more What do you think the administration can do to help foster those attitudes within its faculty ranks? Because there are some faculty members that are very dedicated to their teaching, and it shows in the way they conduct themselves in the classroom in the office hours that they hold? What do you think that administration can do to help foster those, those attitudes among among the faculty?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=703.0,723.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: First of all, I think that there has to be a strong commitment on the part of the President and the academic administration to the fact that teaching is important. But it can't be only pronouncement, it has to be something that is translated into action. And although many people who work in the universities work there, because they love to do what they are doing, I think that the reward structure nevertheless can be important. And we we have taken steps and are trying to take further steps to ensure that good teaching will be recognized in the form of promotions, in the form of salary adjustments, just as well as research as research and scholarship. This means that we're also going to have to develop even better methods to assess the quality of teaching. And again, this is where the students can play a constructive role not only by filling out the various forms the student surveys that are used in class, but also by interacting with faculty with administration in various ways. We have recently started writing to the Dean's and encouraging them to include students on every possible college committee that they appoint. And I have just the last few days seen letters coming back from the deans where they are reporting on committees where they already have student membership and where they're making plans to add students to the committee's. And I think it's very important that we ensure that there is student faculty interaction not only between the central administration and the student leadership, but also at the departmental level.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=724.0,829.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Aaron, you mentioned teaching assistants, do you see that as a problem? Or","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=830.0,833.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: I think in terms of for not, it depends on the classroom and the class that they're teaching. For some students, having a teaching assistant teaching assistant as a lecturer has been a very rewarding experience. But progress is kind of curious about your views on the use of teaching assistants versus versus on full faculty, and in turn, and what class classes do you think that a teaching assistant may be more beneficial than a full professor?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=834.0,863.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Well, this is a this is a problem that has affected universities across the United States. And if you've read the, the, for example, the Chronicle of Higher Education for the last year or two, you will will have found that many universities have been wrestling with this issue of how do you how do you use graduate teaching assistants constructively in the educational program? The university first of all has a responsibility to train future university and college teachers while they are graduate students and there's a very strong element in using it Your teaching assistants. It's an element of training for them preparing them for teaching careers in, in other institutions. But then there's also the the need to provide very large numbers of courses and core sections in the university. And frankly, the economics of a public university are such that it would not be possible to teach all the students with regular faculty members, the budget simply would not allow that. And as a way of providing this adesh additional teaching, we traditionally use the graduate teaching assistants.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=864.0,937.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Let me interrupt here Just a minute. I hate to shut this off. But we do need to take a break and we hope you'll stay with us. Welcome back to Arizona alumni forum. I'm Kent Rollins. My co host is Aaron McBride, student body president. Our guest is Dr. Niels pasamos, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost, Niels, I cut you off right in the middle of talking about teaching assistants. And I know Aaron would like to finish hearing that answer. So maybe you could pick up where you left off?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=938.0,976.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: I will be glad to do that. Because it is a very important question. Clearly, it's the responsibility of the university to make sure that the greater teaching assistants who are sent into the classroom have the proper preparation. Not only that they know the subject matter that they are teaching, which is usually no problem, but that they have some classroom experience and that they know what the challenge is that they are facing in a particular classroom situation. We are now providing both general workshops for all graduate assistants, and specific programs for those who have specific types of assignments. We also have a special program for graduate assistants coming from other countries, and who need some additional training in English, and especially in the training in how to communicate with American undergraduates in a teaching situation that is often quite different from what they are accustomed from in their home countries. So I think that we are beginning to to achieve the kind of training for the graduate assistance that is necessary. We also try to have the graduate assistants work very closely under the supervision of senior faculty members. Okay,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=977.0,1052.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Provost, I want it I was early, I was going to bring up the fact that a lot of the algebra classes for undergraduates are self paced, and a lot of the English classes are being taught by teaching assistants. And I was, and I know that the university has just been given the authority to hire non tenure lecturers for these departments. I was wondering if you could elaborate on how that's going to affect the quality of the programs in the math and the English department?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=1053.0,1083.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Yes, we have very major responsibilities when it comes to teaching English composition and entry level mathematics. We have we have well over 5000 students each year are taking those kinds of courses. And you can imagine the number of instructors that are necessary in order to offer those courses. We have had a problem with a self paced mathematics courses that we used for a number of years. And we have now reduced those very significantly. And I just visited the mathematics department the other day, and actually, they put me through the paces in their mathematics laboratory where the students go to do their homework so that they can speak with computers. And they told me that they felt that there were very few students now who were forced into the self paced program. In general, we seem to have been able to offer a classroom instruction to the students who want those courses. Although they told me also that we have had trouble filling some of the core sections that were offered late in the afternoon or early in the evening. So we have maybe a little bit little ways to go here.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=1084.0,1152.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Do you see that in the future, maybe the there'll be the elimination of the self paced math classes because I know that there's such an attrition rate within those classes, and students take them three and four times before they finally complete a section.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=1153.0,1166.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: I think that we will probably continue to offer those courses because some students seem to respond very well to the opportunity to study mathematics at their own pace. I have spoken to a number of students who have liked that method very much, but it's clearly not a method that is at all suitable for students who come poorly prepared from high school and who may have what they call mathematics phobia already. They need human interaction. They need assistance and they cannot be left on their own to do the self pay. courses, but I think that they still have a place to a role to play for, for some, for some students, okay. Now we have introduced as Aaron mentioned here, a new category of teacher, we call them lecturers and senior lecturers, the Board of Regents just approved these types of appointments. And this means that we can hire teachers to teach things like English composition, mathematics, and other undergraduate courses. And do that as teachers without having research or service responsibilities, and that we can reward them appropriately. And we can give the multi year contracts now, which will give them some job security that they did not have available to them earlier.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=1167.0,1244.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Nils I want to before we run out of time in our segment, I know there are some programs that you're extremely proud of at the university and we talk about academic excellence. But what are some of the indicators? How do we know when we're doing things? Well, when we're being nationally recognized? Can you allude to some of our top programs and and what makes them good.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=1245.0,1264.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: We have a number of distinguished programs in a variety of areas. And this is important to note that we're not good only in one segment of the university. We have excellent science departments, astronomy, planetary sciences, optical sciences, chemistry, and so forth. We have very fine social science programs in sociology, anthropology, philosophy, linguistics, we have fine humanities and fine arts programs and music, English classics, for example. We have some distinguished engineering programs. So you find excellence throughout the institution. We measure this, for example, through the recognition given to our faculty members, the number of faculty members who are members of the National Academy, we measure it in terms of their ability to attract federal and corporate research dollars, which is really done in a national competition. And those dollars are awarded on the basis of peer evaluation by other scholars. And as I said, we attract over we'll handle over $115 million in a year in such funding, and that ranks as very high among public universities in this country, then we also measure success in a very important, different respect. And that is, of course, through the achievements of our students, and the quality of the education that they are receiving. And one of the things we are working on right now and we'll be working with a student leadership on is how do you assess the outcomes of teaching. And we hope to do that not by introducing more tests with which we probably already had too much. Or we are trying to find some more sophisticated ways of assessing what is really the result of the education that we provide to our students. Okay,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=1265.0,1375.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: if you'd hold that thought, we're gonna take a break and we'll come back and talk about the quality of the institution. Please stay with us.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=1376.0,1394.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Welcome back to Arizona.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=1395.0,1397.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Welcome back to Arizona alumni forum. I'm Kent Rollins, my co host is Aaron McBride, and our guest is Dr. Niels hassel. Mo. Niels, we're talking about quality, but maybe you could also talk to us a little bit understand we're going to raise our admissions requirements, what are they going to be and why are we doing that?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=1398.0,1413.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: Can't we are doing that, because some students have come to the University, clearly unprepared for the kind of work that is required at the university level. And frankly, many of the problems we have encountered in undergraduate education have really had to do with the lack of preparation of students, especially in English composition and in mathematics. And in both areas, majors now require more preparation really, and in communication and in mathematics, and used to be the case. And this is why we have through the through board action changed the admissions requirement to be effective in the fall of 1987. This does not mean that we have raised the the grade point average, but we have required specific courses in English, hardcore English Composition courses, courses in mathematics courses in laboratory science, and so forth. And we hope that by this action, more students in high school will see to it that they get those courses before they come to the University. Okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=1414.0,1482.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: I promise I would like you to comment if you are on the university's efforts to recruit and retain the minority students on our campus. Do you think the university is doing all it all it can in this area? Because the numbers really don't tell us a good success a great success. Sorry.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=1483.0,1500.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: But the university has made a major effort and there have been significant increases in minority students over the last three or four years. The figures suggest that we may have had an increase of as many as 40% in minority student enrollment over that period. But we still do not have the kind of student minority student enrollment that we think is necessary. And we are working very hard on that. At this point. One of the most effective ways in which we have tried to attract minority students has been through by sending university students who are themselves minority students, sending them out into the high schools to work with high school counselors and teachers. And this is a very enthusiastic and knowledgeable group of recruiters in the high schools. And I have had very positive feedback from the schools concerning that approach. Okay, you know,","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=1501.0,1561.999"},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"UNKNOWN SPEAKER: I hate to break this up. I know we've got a lot of questions left to ask. But I want to thank both of you for being with us. And I want to thank our viewers for staying with us and tune in next month when our guests will be Dr. Ben Tucci, university Vice President for Finance and Administration. Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326#t=1562.0,1564.0"}]},{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["English [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://arizona.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1078/collection_resources/73577/file/159326/transcript/37772/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"subtitling","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/file_transcripts/associated_files/000/037/772/original/azu_ms646-015_a.vtt?1652820857","format":"text/vtt","language":"en"},"target":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/file_transcripts/associated_files/000/037/772/original/azu_ms646-015_a.vtt?1652820857"}]}]}]}