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[Submitted] Oct. 1, 2012 Yes - It is ambitious and for the most part comprehensive. [General Comments?] The English Language Program is the largest unit within the Office of International Programs. As such the internationalization advisory committee should include a representative from the ELP.
Yes - A large omission in DRAFT K-State 2025 Internationalization – Strategic Action Plan is the lack of focus on faculty and administrators who are responsible for teaching English to the students who are not yet ready to attend university classes, namely the English Language Program. If international students are to have quality experience at K-State, then significant attention needs to be focused on instructors in the English Language Program. All the instructors are on term contracts with absolutely none of the protection that the university provides instructors in other departments. ELP instructors can be non-rehired at any time with no warning. According to President Schulz, the median instructor salary at K-State is $48,000. ELP instructor salaries are much lower than this. There is also no system of regularization, reward or promotion. There is no opportunity or reward for research.The same is true for the administrators. For the internationalization 2025 vision to be realized, improvement within the English Language Program as an academic department has be be incorporated in the Plan.
K-State 2025 Internationalization Strategic Action Plan Comments | Kansas State University
Is there anything missing that should be included in the action plan for Internationalization?