UNIVERSITY FACULTY SENATE FORMS

 

Academic Program Approval

 

This form is a routing document for the approval of new and revised academic programs.  Proposing department should complete this form.  For more information, call the Faculty Senate Office at 831-2921.

 

 

Submitted by: __Susan J. Hall________________________ phone number__x4909________

                               

Department:  _Health, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences_____ email address_sjhall@udel.edu_

                                                                                                                                                                                                             

 

Action:  ___divide existing academic department into two new academic departments____________

(Example:  add major/minor/concentration, delete major/minor/concentration, revise major/minor/concentration, academic unit name change, request for permanent status, policy change, etc.)

 

Effective term __07/01/10                                                                                                                 

(use format 04F, 05W)

 

Current degree________________________________________________________________

                                    (Example:  BA, BACH, BACJ, HBA, EDD, MA, MBA, etc.)

 

Proposed change leads to the degree of: ___________________________________________

                                                                                             (Example:  BA, BACH, BACJ, HBA, EDD, MA, MBA, etc.)

 

Proposed name:_______________________________________________________________

                                            Proposed new name for revised or new major / minor / concentration / academic unit

                                                                                (if applicable)

Revising or Deleting: 

 

Undergraduate major / Concentration: _                                                                         __

                                                                                    (Example:  Applied Music – Instrumental  degree BMAS)

 

Undergraduate minor:____________________________________________________

                                   (Example:  African Studies,  Business Administration,  English, Leadership, etc.)            

Graduate Program Policy statement change:_________________________________

                                                                  (Must attach  your Graduate Program Policy Statement)

 

            Graduate Program of Study:______________________________________________

                                 (Example:  Animal Science: MS  Animal Science:  PHD  Economics: MA Economics: PHD)

 

                Graduate minor / concentration:___________________________________________

 

Note: all graduate studies proposals must include an electronic copy of the Graduate Program Policy Document, highlighting the changes made to the original policy document.

 

List new courses required for the new or revised curriculum. How do they support the overall program objectives of the major/minor/concentrations)?

 (Be aware that approval of the curriculum is dependent upon these courses successfully passing through the Course Challenge list. If there are no new courses enter “None”)

 

None

 

Explain, when appropriate, how this new/revised curriculum supports the 10 goals of undergraduate education: http://www.ugs.udel.edu/gened/

 

N/A – no curriculum change associated

 

Identify other units affected by the proposed changes:

(Attach permission from the affected units.  If no other unit is affected, enter “None”)

 

None

 

Describe the rationale for the proposed program change(s):

(Explain your reasons for creating, revising, or deleting the curriculum or program.)

 

Proposal to Reorganize the Department of Health, Nutrition & Exercise Sciences into Two New Academic Departments

 

On April 25, 2008 there was a positive vote of the faculty of the Department of Health, Nutrition and Exercise Sciences (HNES) to approve the division of the existing department into two, new academic departments. This decision was supported by a vote of the College of Health Sciences faculty on September 16, 2008 and was approved by Dean Betty Paulanka and Provost Dan Rich. Subsequently, Dean Paulanka put this proposal on hold because of uncertainties of the implications of the department separation associated with moving into the new RBB budgeting system. Dean Kathy Matt and Provost Tom Apple have now given approval to reinitiate this proposal to reorganize the department into two, new academic departments. The faculty in the Department of Health, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences voted again to reaffirm their support for dividing the existing department into two, new academic departments on November 20, 2009. Faculty working in programs currently housed on North campus, including Health Behavior Science/Health Promotion, Health and Physical Education, and Nutrition will form one new department, and faculty working in programs housed on South campus, including Athletic Training and Exercise Science will form the other new department. There is a separate proposal currently submitted for moving the department’s program in Sport Management to the Lerner College of Business and Economics. This document provides background, rationale, and a plan for implementation for the proposal.

 

Background:

 

The department of HNES has grown dramatically over the past 11 years since joining what is now the College of Health Sciences. The current department structure consists of six separate program areas, including Athletic Training, Exercise Science, Health Behavior Science/Health Promotion, Health and Physical Education, Nutrition, and Sport Management. Within these program areas, there are 8 undergraduate majors, 5 undergraduate minors, 3 master’s programs, participation in an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program, a dietetic internship program and a proposed new Ph.D. program. It is important to note that the curricula for these six program areas are discrete, with very few courses required by majors from more than one program area.

 

At other institutions across the country, these programs are organized within many different departmental structures. However, we are not aware of any other university in the country that places all of these program areas within a single academic department. In fact, at some very reputable institutions, there are entire colleges that include some, but not all of these programs and with not many more faculty than our department here at UD.

 

Tables A & B show current (fall 09) undergraduate and graduate student enrollments within the department by major.  Exercise Science and Athletic Training, the South campus programs, have 47% of all undergraduate students and 39% of all graduate students in the department. Conversely, the combined North campus programs, Health Behavior Science/Health Promotion, Health and Physical Education, Nutrition, and Sport Management, have 53% of all undergraduate students and 61% of all graduate students.

 

Table A.   HNES Undergraduate Enrollments*

HNES Undergraduate Majors

F09 Enrollment

%

Athletic Training

101

8

Exercise Science

469

39

Health Behavior Science

130

11

Health & Physical Education

76

6

Sport Management

165

14

Applied Nutrition

51

4

Dietetics

174

15

Nutritional Science

30

3

Total

1196

 

*The HESC enrollment counts include freshman interest group students.

 

Table B.  HNES Graduate Enrollments

HNES Graduate Programs

F09 Enrollment

%

M.S. in Exercise Science & Ph.D. in BMSC

27

23

Ph.D. in BMSC (EXSC advised students)

17

14

Ph.D. in Biology (EXSC advised students)

2

2

M.S. in Health Promotion

16

13

M.S. in Human Nutrition

18

15

Dietetic Internship Program

40

33

Total

120

 

 

Rationale:

 

With the growth of the department and the large number of disparate programs housed within it, it was thought that the department is too broad to function effectively as a single, cohesive academic unit. Combining Athletic Training and Exercise Science makes sense because 1) these programs are combined at the graduate level, and 2) these faculty and graduate students are housed in the Human Performance Lab, which is physically separate from the rest of the department and located on South campus. Combining the remaining programs makes sense because 1) there are past, existing, and potential collaborative linkages among faculty across these program areas, and 2) these faculty and graduate students are physically housed on North campus.

 

The smaller size and increased homogeneity of the two new departments will be advantageous for both students and faculty. There will be a concomitant increase in the visibility of the academic programs within each unit, with positive implications for attracting student majors, as well as recruiting faculty. The new, more homogeneous faculty groups will also be more focused for purposes of strategic planning and developing new curricula. This will translate to an enhanced ability to offer high-quality academic programs for students. Implementation of the smaller, more homogeneous departments will also translate to improved academic advisement for students, with faculty only advising students in the program areas in which the faculty are teaching, (which is not always currently the case.) We also anticipate increased opportunities for informal social interactions between faculty and students, which will improve students’ sense of belonging to their home academic department.

 

Proposal and Plan for Implementation:

 

We propose that effective July 1, 2010 the Department of Health, Nutrition and Exercise Sciences be separated into two new academic departments, with one encompassing the South campus programs, including faculty and programs in Exercise Science and Athletic Training, and the other encompassing the North campus programs, including faculty and programs in Health Behavior Science/Health Promotion, Health and Physical Education, and Nutrition and Dietetics.  There is already a physical separation of these faculty groups, with one group housed in the Human Performance Lab on South campus and the other group housed on North campus in Carpenter Sports Building and Willard Hall.

 

There is currently a separate proposal to relocate the Sport Management program to the Lerner College of Business and Economics. That proposal is separate from this one, and so while it is noted, the Sport Management faculty and students, still within the Department of Health, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences for the 09-10 academic year, are listed as being affiliated with the North campus department.

 

The new department names selected by faculty are Behavioral Health and Nutrition (North campus) and Kinesiology and Applied Physiology (South campus.) (The faculty groups may wish to revisit these name choices.) The North campus department will include 21 of the current faculty and the South campus department will include 20 of the current faculty.

 

All faculty holding full or part-time appointments in the department have chosen the new department affiliation they wish to hold. These are listed below.

 

North campus Department Composition

Full-time Faculty (20)                                                               Other Faculty (1)         

Leta Aljadir                              Carolyn Manning                      Avron Abraham (20% in                      

Sandy Baker                            Iva Obrusnikova                       department)   

Jan Bibik                                  Beth Orsega-Smith                              

Nancy Cotugna                        Mike Peterson

Tim DeSchriver*                      Matt Robinson*

Karen Edwards                        Ann Rucinski

Richard Fang                            John Schuster

Steve Goodwin             Kristin Scrabis-Fletcher

Edgar Johnson*                        Kelebogile Setiloane

Marie Kuczmarski                    Roger Spacht

 

*The three sport management faculty may be moving to the Lerner College of Business and Economics effective July 2010.

 

South campus Department Composition

Full-time Faculty (20)                                                              

Dave Barlow                            Chris Knight                            

Dena Deglau                             Shannon Lennon-Edwards                               

Dave Edwards                          Chris Modlesky

Bill Farquhar                             Shelley Provost-Craig

Nancy Getchell             Jim Richards

Susan Hall                                Bill Rose

Keith Handling              Todd Royer

Slobodan Jaric                          Jeff Schneider  

Tom Kaminski              Steven Stanhope

Tom Kepple                             Buz Swanik

 

Department Chairs

Hall has served as chair of the Department of Health, Nutrition and Exercise Sciences for the past 10 years. She is currently undergoing a five-year review. Pending the outcome of the review, she is willing to continue to serve as chair of the South campus department should Dean Kathy Matt wish to appoint her and with a positive vote of the South campus faculty.

 

The college will conduct a national search for a new department chair for the North campus department during 2010-2011 academic year. It is hoped that a new chair will be chosen who will begin July 2011 for the North campus department.  Effective July 1, 2010 an Interim Chair will be chosen from the faculty.

 

Division of Academic Programs

There are no curriculum changes associated with this proposal for the division of the existing department into two new ones. The existing academic majors, minors, and graduate programs will be divided as shown below.

 

Existing Academic Programs to be Housed in the North Campus Department:

Undergraduate Majors              Minors                                                 Graduate Programs

Applied Nutrition                                  Coaching Science                                 Health Promotion

Dietetics                                               Nutrition                                               Human Nutrition

Nutritional Sciences                              Public Health *                         Dietetic Internship

Health Behavior Science                      

Health and Physical Education

Sport Management

 

*currently proposed

 

Academic Programs to be Housed in the South Campus Department:

Undergraduate Majors              Minors                                                 Graduate Programs

Athletic Training                                    Strength and Conditioning                     Exercise Science

Exercise Science                                   Exercise Science                                   Applied Physiology*

                                                            Figure Skating Coaching

*(currently proposed)

 

Faculty Senate Resolution

The resolution for Faculty Senate approval of this proposal is listed below.

Whereas,          the Department of Health, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences has grown dramatically over the past 10 years, with undergraduate enrollment currently at approximately 1200 undergraduates and 120 graduate students, and

Whereas,          the Department includes eight undergraduate majors, five minors, and three graduate programs, with an additional graduate program currently proposed, and

Whereas,          faculty and administrators within the College of Health Sciences agree that the Department has become too broad to function effectively as a single academic unit, and

Whereas,          Department and College faculty have voted to approve the division of the existing department into two new academic departments, and

Whereas,          the new academic departments will be more strategically focused and more visible, and thus better able to recruit outstanding students and to provide a high-quality education for students, and

 

Whereas,           the proposed new academic units are already physically separated on North and South campuses, and

Whereas,          faculty in the new department units have agreed upon new department names, be it therefore

Resolved, that the Faculty Senate recommends that the Department of Health, Nutrition, and Exercise Sciences be reformulated as two new departments, to be called the Department of Behavioral Health and Nutrition and the Department of Kinesiology and Applied Physiology. (Department name choices subject to change.)

 

Program Requirements: 

(Show the new or revised curriculum as it should appear in the Course Catalog.  If this is a revision, be sure to indicate the changes being made to the current curriculum and include a side-by-side comparison of the credit distribution before and after the proposed change.)

 

No associated curriculum change is proposed.

 

 ROUTING AND AUTHORIZATION:        (Please do not remove supporting documentation.)

 

Department Chairperson        ________________                                                                Date        11/20/09                 

 

Dean of College                                                                                                                       Date                                       

 

Chairperson, College Curriculum Committee___________________________________Date_____________________

 

Chairperson, Senate Com. on UG or GR Studies                                                                   Date                                       

 

Chairperson, Senate Coordinating Com.                                                                 Date                                       

 

Secretary, Faculty Senate                                                                                                       Date                                       

 

Date of Senate Resolution                                                                                                      Date to be Effective               

 

Registrar                                                                  Program Code                                         Date                                       

 

Vice Provost for Academic Programs & Planning                                                                  Date                                       

 

Provost                                                                                                                                   Date                                       

 

Board of Trustee Notification                                                                                                                Date                                       

 

Revised 5/02/06   /khs