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ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS
Minutes of the Academic Affairs and Educational Attainment Committee

September 13, 2018

A meeting of the Academic Affairs and Educational Attainment Committee was held on
Thursday, September 13, 2018, at Arizona State University.

Committee Members Present: Regent Krishna (Chair), Regent Penley, Regent Myers, Regent
DeGravina,

Absent: Regent Heiler (Vice Chair),

Also present were Regent Shoopman Regent Manson, Regent Ridenour Regent L?Ecuyer,
Regent Taylor Robson, President Cheng, President Robins, Provost Mark Searle, Interim
Provost Jeffrey Goldberg, Interim Provost Brian Levin-Stankevich, Christy Farley, Christine
Wilkinson, Jon Dudas, Fred Cory, Kent Hopkins

Present from ABOR: John Arnold, Nancy Tribbensee, Chad Sampson, Mark Denke, Sarah
Harper, Julie Newberg, Lia Foy, Kendra Pelofske, Tom Merriam, Jennifer Pollock, Lorenzo
Martinez, Monica Simental, Kris Okazaki, Sue Sosa, Kate Linder, Suzanne Templin

Regent Krishna called the meeting to order at 1:00p.m.

Regent Krishna announced that the light agenda for today?s meeting is due to the ongoing

reorganization of the committee.

Director Arnold added that the committee has been renamed to the Academic Affairs and
Educational Attainment Committee, and the enterprise is in the process of repurposing the
committee. ABOR staff and regents plan to think through how the committee?s time can best be
used. The regents added an additional focus of the committee when they included the
educational attainment aspect to the committee?s name. The name change suggests some
external focus instead of solely concentrating on academics inside the universities. November?s
agenda will be more broad, and the staff will work with the regents in the coming months to
establish the direction of the committee.

Request for Disestablishment of Academic Units in the College of Health Solutions at
Arizona State University

The College of Health Solutions was established in May 2012 and brought together 10
disciplines that each focused on a separate area of health.

After the disestablishment and reorganization, the College of Health Solutions will function as a

single organizational unit focused on the system of health rather than individual components.
The college will consist of translational faculty teams and academic groups.

Faculty will be associated with one or more disciplinary groups, which will correspond to their
academic programs.

An important aspect of the reorganization is that translational teams and academic hubs will be
dedicated to the research and development of system-based solutions to major population
health problem. This cohesive, collaborative college reorganization will provide students with
new opportunities for experiential learning that address transdisciplinary solutions to major
population health problems

The following academic units will be disestablished: School of Nutrition and

Health Promotion, Department of Speech and Hearing Science, School for the

Science of Health Care Delivery, Department of Biomedical Informatics, and

International School of Biomedical Diagnostics, however, all existing degree programs within
those programs and schools will continue to be offered by the college and there will be no
negative impact on students in the degree programs.

No new funding is required for the reorganization, and existing fiscal resources can be used in
more efficient and effective ways resulting in financial saving to the college.

The Dean worked with the faculty and other stakeholders within the college on an extensive
analysis of the reorganization for several months. The disestablishment and college
reorganization has received faculty approval from both within the college and from 
Faculty Senate.

When questioned by Regent Myers regarding the the reorganization would have on the
college?s ability to compete for research dollars, Provost Searle indicated that ASU expected
this reorganization would have a significant impact in improving the college?s ability to compete
for research grants.

Regent Ridenour asked about how this reorganization tied into the Mayo partnership, and
Provost Searle responded that ASU collaborates with Mayo with a number of units within the
college, specifically Health Care Delivery and Biomedical Informatics; and on a lesser scale,
Nutrition and Human Performance. The college has many joint positions with Mayo and will
continue to collaborate as they open the new building at Mayo Campus in north Phoenix. The
Provost also explained that this reorganization is a chance to continue to augment the Mayo
relationship without having the administrative hurdles to work through.

Regents expressed support for the disestablishment and reorganization of the college.

The committee recommended fonNarding to the full board for approval the disestablishment of
five departments or schools in the College of Health Solutions.