Graduate Studies Task Force

Task Force Update 2020-2021

Graduate Task Force Review Committee

Beginning with a meeting on May 13, 2019 and concluding in January, 2020 a review committee went through each Task Force recommendation and produced a revised and updated Task Force report. 

Members

Jeannine Perry, Dean College of Graduate & Professional Studies
Kevin Doyle, Faculty COUN & Dept. Chair                                     
Lissa Power DeFur, Dept. Chair & Faculty CSD                          
Amanda Blaisdell, Faculty HPE                            
Sarah Tanner Anderson, Faculty EDLD
Karla Collins, Faculty SLIB                                     
Xun Bian, Faculty MBA                            
Julie Boone, Director of Graduate Admissions & Recruitment                     
Kathy Charleston, Asst. Dean College of Graduate & Professional Studies             

Purpose: Review the Graduate Task Force recommendations report from 2016 with the following goals. 

  • ​update the items that have been accomplished, 
  • revise anything that no longer makes sense, 
  • set new strategic priorities based on the recommendations that remain.  ​

Accomplishments as of 2019 (Task Force Recommendation related accomplishments)

Task Force Recommendations Updated 2020

 

Overview

Throughout the academic year 2015-2016, the College of Graduate and Professional Studies conducted a review of graduate studies at Longwood.  This review included two perspectives.  An external perspective was provided through a Strategic Consultation by a team from the Council of Graduate Schools.  An internal perspective was provided through the formation of a twelve member Task Force named by President Reveley and Provost Neff.

Both reviews produced a report, including a list of recommendations for 1 year, 3 years and 5 years.

CGS Strategic Consultation External Review

The CGS Strategic Consultation took place February 8-9, 2016 and was conducted by two external graduate deans Dr. Dennis Grady from Radford University and Dr. Amy McCandless from the College of Charleston, South Carolina.  Both institutions are similar to Longwood in scope and size of graduate studies and both deans are experienced in their roles as well as conducing reviews.  Their review included extensive research of documentation provided by Longwood and two days of interviewing a broad range of stakeholders.

  • CGS Recommendations
    This document lists the CGS Report recommendations ONLY by year of implementation.

  • Complete Report
    This is the complete report provided by the consultants.

  • CGS Cover Letter
    Letter from CGS officially concluding the study.

  • Team Visit Agenda
    Agenda and list of interviewees for team visit in February.

  • Crosswalk CGS Recommendations to Task Force
    This document compares the recommendations made by the CGS consultants to those made by the internal Graduate Studies Task Force enabling us to see where there were commonalities or recommendations unique to one or the other report.

Graduate Studies Task Force Internal Review

An extensive internal review process began in Fall, 2015 with a request from graduate faculty fully supported by President Reveley and Provost Neff. The official charge was issued in December, 2015 and work took place throughout the spring 2016 semester.  The Task Force worked on four topics as subgroups reviewing data, researching documentation, and collecting perspectives from multiple stakeholders.