| 12/01/2022 |
Helen Stec emailed oapra@ proposal docs |
| 12/06/2022 |
AJ Bayer emailed HS confirming proposal is assigned to them |
| 12/13/2022 |
AB emailed HS asking for resubmission in appropriate format |
| 12/16/2022 |
HS emailed AB revised proposal docs |
| 12/19/2022 |
AB emailed HS confirming OAPRA will review revised docs |
| 12/21/2022 |
AB emailed HS after review, requesting a new reviewer since there was a conflict for the external reviewer |
| 12/22/2022 |
HS reached out to confirm guideliness for external reviewer; TW responded with clarification |
| 01/11/2023 |
HS submits documentation for new reviewer |
| 02/03/2023 |
HS reached out to check on status |
| 03/08/2023 |
TW sent first round of feedback for proposal; feedback on most documents |
| 3/29/2023 |
TW confirmed receipt of email and provided estimate for response of two weeks |
| 04/28/2023 |
Tisch and OAPRA teams meet to discuss feedback, Tisch to send final round to OAPRA before NYSED submission |
| 05/04/2023 |
Sabeen Edwin submits to OAPRA the final round of draft documents for the proposal |
| 05/11/2023 |
Annie Stanton reaches out to OAPRA for a status update on the proposal. AF responds, indicating that OAPRA will be in touch within the next week to provide feedback/updates. |
| 05/19/2023 |
Annie Stanton reaches out to OAPRA requesting a status update on round 5 of draft documents |
| 05/19/2023 |
AF responds, informs Annie that there are two remaining questions to be addressed in proposal before OAPRA can send to NYSED: Please provide a brief narrative (a couple of sentences) indicating the substantive curricular and learning objective differences between this MA Producing program and your existing MFA programs that justify creating a new distance education program rather than just registering a distance education format of an existing one. Confirm which faculty member(s)--existing or to be hired--will teach the following 4 courses during the first academic year of the program, prior to September 2025 when your first 15-month cohort is expected to start Thesis II: PROD-GT 2006 Post-Production/Marketing and Distribution PROD-GT 2100 Media Mavericks PROD-GT 2101 Festivals and Markets PROD-GT 2103 Internship |
| 05/19/2023 |
Annie Stanton answers: Question 1: The MA in Producing for Film and Television is a 32-credit Masters of Arts degree focused on Film and Television Producing. The MFA in Film is a 108-credit terminal degree focused on Writing/Directing. Students in the MFA program write, direct, edit, and produce films over three years. While students in the MFA are taught about producing, the focus of the program is to write and direct one's own work. The MA program will solely focus on producing content for film and television and will not contain any courses focused on writing, directing, or editing one's own work. Question 2: The interim director, David Irving will teach the Internship course in the first year. Ideally, PROD-GT 2006 Post-Production/Marketing and Distribution (a core class) will be taught by an existing teacher in either Grad Film or Undergraduate Film (e.g. Thomas Mangan, provided we get permission to pay him an overload) or an adjunct. The two electives, PROD-GT 2100 Media Mavericks, and PROD-GT 2101 Festivals and Marketing will either be taught by existing faculty from Grad Film or Undergraduate Film or existing adjuncts from either of those two Departments. |
| 05/23/2023 |
AF responds to Annie, revised documents to be sent EOD 05/23/2023 |
| 05/24/2023 |
AF sends revised documents to Annie, indicates revisions have been made to faculty table to reflect industry standards for graduate-level instruction |
| 05/24/2023 |
Sabeen responds, Tisch accepts all revisions and sends back documents to OAPRA. AF confirms receipt, will compile all proposal documents and inform Tisch of NYSED submission |
| 05/25/2023 |
AF sends complete proposal to NYSED |
| 08/23/2023 |
NYSED provides feedback on proposal to NYU |
| 09/15/2023 |
KR Drake of the Registrar reaches out to JS, requesting a status update on this proposal - Tisch had reached out to the registrar. JS alerts AF, who requests KR be updated that AF had already reached out to Brianna Steadman for an update on this proposal. KR may check with AF for more information. KR confirms receipt. |
| 09/28/2023 |
AF responds to Tisch w/ NYSED feedback: We have received additional questions from NYSED on our proposal that require your support to answer (details and guidance below). I understand that we are on a tight timeline to wrap this up. If we answer the following questions effectively and submit back to NYSED by COB Friday, we could conceivably receive approval within the following two weeks. Please let me know if you have any follow up questions on how to move forward. NYSED Question: Six of the twelve courses that make up the proposed program are identified as requiring new faculty hires (PROD-GT 2004, PROD-GT 2005, PROD-GT 2006, PROD-GT 2100, PROD-GT 2101 and PROD-GT 2102). New York State regulation requires that institutions demonstrate sufficient faculty are in place to initiate all courses in the proposed program curriculum. Is there a contingency plan in place to ensure faculty coverage for these courses if the to-be-hired faculty is not hired by the identified target date? Can current faculty coverage be identified for these courses? Please clarify. [Reference: Section 52.2(b)(1,3) of Commissioner’s Regulations] Tisch: Please review and provide a response. NYSED Question: The credit hour determinations and the coursework outlined in syllabi for PROD-GT 2103 Internship, PROD-GT 3000 Thesis I and PROD-GT 3001 Thesis II do not appear to align. The “Integrity of Credit” section for each course seems to indicate that a majority of instructional time will involve student engagement with “pre-recorded lecture modules” (Internship, Thesis II) or “asynchronous/synchronous modules” (Thesis I). However, it is not clear how these modules relate to the internship or thesis project coursework, as the modules are not referenced in either the assignment or assessment sections of the syllabi. Please clarify the role of the lecture modules for PROD-GT 2103 Internship, PROD-GT 3000 Thesis I and PROD-GT 3001 Thesis II and submit revised syllabi as applicable. [Reference: Section 50.1(o) and 52.2(b)(1)of Commissioner’s Regulations] NYU Response, PROD-GT 3000 Thesis I, PROD-GT 3001 Thesis II: The asynchronous modules will align with the weekly objectives outlined in the syllabus, providing instruction and guidance on each of these objectives as well as instruction supporting the completion of the course assignments. We feel this practice aligns with common syllabus conventions for lectures, both synchronous and asynchronous, and have taken this approach has supported our work with NYSED in the past. Please let us know if any modifications should be made. [Optional: To support this current review we have provided a more detailed look at the modules below: Tisch: Please confirm the NYU response narrative above and provide additional details on how the modules are organized as supporting evidence. If the modules do not align with the weekly course objectives, please clarify their content and how they are aligned with the course objectives. Additionally, please provide information on how participation and engagement will be tracked for the asynchronous modules. NYU Response, PROD-GT 2103 Internship: Tisch: It is unclear in the syllabus for the Internship how the instructional time will align with either the weekly objectives or the internship assignments and objectives. Unlike the other two referenced syllabi, the listed weekly objectives center mostly on the administrative tasks. Please clarify the content of the instructional time activities and their relationship to the course objectives, and revise the syllabus so that this information is included in the weekly schedule objectives. Below is the list of instructional activities listed in the syllabus: This 2-credit asynchronous course will contain multiple pre-recorded lecture modules for a total of 175 minutes each week, for 6 weeks Outside of the pre-recorded lecture modules, students will also complete a 10-minute quiz related to the modules they watch, 3x over 6 weeks; students will meet synchronously with their professor on the platform for 30 minutes, 2x over the 6 weeks; students will participate in weekly asynchronous class discussions and activities with classmates led by the instructor for a total of 60 minutes each week, for 6 weeks. Totals: 1080 minutes asynchronous and synchronous modules + 60 minutes synchronous meetings with professor + 360 minutes crew-based workshops and sessions with the instructor = 1500 minutes. |
| 09/28/2023 |
Annie Stanton of Tisch responds: Tisch will update and respond to OAPRA today |
| 09/28/2023 |
Annie reaches out to AF: Hi Alexandra, I believe we've answered question #1 with the response posted below -- please review and advise. As to the Internship, we also thought the syllabus was a bit hard to understand so we redid it -- I am sharing that with the Group via Google docs. Is it okay to update as much as we have done on this document? Also, after working on the other classes, as this all gets developed, it make more sense for us to make the internship 10 weeks in the summer. Students will have to complete 100 hours of internship hours in addition to the class -- that's all reflected there and I believe it's a lot clearer. Faculty will lecture synchronously for a total of 10 hours and we'll have guest lecture asynchronous modules for a total of 10 hours as well. Discussion will be around the weekly sync lectures from their professor as well as the two guest lecturer async modules. Finally, in addition to the 10 hours of class sync lecture, students will be required to meet with the faculty member for 90 minutes over the course. Please review the Google doc and let us know if it is clear now. Thanks, Annie ======================================================================================= NYSED Question: Six of the twelve courses that make up the proposed program are identified as requiring new faculty hires (PROD-GT 2004, PROD-GT 2005, PROD-GT 2006, PROD-GT 2100, PROD-GT 2101 and PROD-GT 2102). New York State regulation requires that institutions demonstrate sufficient faculty are in place to initiate all courses in the proposed program curriculum. Is there a contingency plan in place to ensure faculty coverage for these courses if the to-be-hired faculty is not hired by the identified target date? Can current faculty coverage be identified for these courses? Please clarify. [Reference: Section 52.2(b)(1,3) of Commissioner’s Regulations] The Tisch School of the Arts has been in conversation with many faculty for each of the courses as we are currently in the process of producing these courses for online delivery. The scripting and shooting involved in this work has begun with a project plan for the first six required courses to be completed by August 2024. The remaining six courses will be completed by December 2024. While a formal search will happen for full-time faculty, in many cases, we have identified faculty who can be contracted to do the development; these same faculty may also teach the courses in the first year. We have permission from the Dean’s Office to pay an overload to full-time faculty for that first year and adjuncts their hourly salary or development fee. We’ve identified faculty from existing undergraduate, graduate and adjunct faculty. The faculty we are working with on this development currently are as follows: Course # Course Title Full-Time Adjunct Other / Staff / Alumni PROD-GT 2004 Entertainment Business Law Rosalind Lichter Wilder Knight Michael Luisi PROD-GT 2005 Deal Making & Business Development in Media Including Creative Fundraising Shivani Khattar Tom Mangan Antony Weintraub Allan Nicholls PROD-GT 2006 Post Production Jennifer Ruff PROD-GT 2100 Media Mavericks Darrell Wilson Mona Nicoara PROD-GT 2101 Festivals and Markets Christina DeHaven Sharon Badal Sofia Sondervan Max Dashkin PROD-GT 2102 New Technologies Chris Chan Roberson Philip DeRise Scott Bankert |
| 09/28/2023 |
Annie shares revised syllabus for Internship course, OAPRA to review |
| 09/28/2023 |
Sabeen Edwin reaches out to AF: We confirm the NYU response narrative. We think the attached addresses the notes for Thesis I - please note, there is one asynchronous lecture in week 1 that students need to review in order to participate in the synchronous lecture for that week which we hope addresses the assessment concerns. |
| 09/29/2023 |
AF reaches out to Annie Stanton: Thank you for the thoughtful response. It is clear that a lot of careful planning has gone into the development process for these courses. However, what NYSED is focusing on is appropriate hiring for course implementation, not the course development. They want to know our plans for guaranteeing that appropriate instructors will be in place for all courses in time to conduct the program as presented in the proposal. I have provided a revised draft of our NYU response based on the information provided in the proposal. Please review and confirm. Please also provide the information in purple in the list below. I believe most of this is already compiled in the table you provided in your last email. Let me know if you have any questions. NYU Response: Below we have listed our faculty plans for each of the identified courses as listed in our proposal faculty table. As detailed here, three of these six courses were identified as being able to be filled by existing NYU faculty as a contingency plan during the hiring process. For the three courses where we did not identify existing faculty as a contingency plan, the first possible implementation date for each course is a full semester following the current planned hiring (August 2024), with no course offered before spring 2025. This timeline is outlined in the sample student schedule. We are working on identifying existing NYU instructors who would teach each of these courses in the case there are delays with hiring. We have included some individuals already identified in the list below: PROD-GT 2004: Adjuncts (new) Existing NYU Instructor: name, NYU title (should align with title listed in the proposal), highest academic degree earned, additional qualifications PROD-GT 2005: Adjuncts (new) Existing NYU Instructor: name, NYU title (should align with title listed in the proposal), highest academic degree earned, additional qualifications PROD-GT 2102: Adjuncts (new) Existing NYU Instructor: name, NYU title (should align with title listed in the proposal), highest academic degree earned, additional qualifications PROD-GT 2006: Assistant Arts Professor (new); or Existing NYU Graduate Full-Time Faculty Existing NYU Instructor: name, NYU title (should align with title listed in the proposal), highest academic degree earned, additional qualifications PROD-GT 2100: Assistant Arts Professor (new); or Existing NYU Graduate Film Full-Time Faculty or Adjunct Existing NYU Instructor: name, NYU title (should align with title listed in the proposal), highest academic degree earned, additional qualifications PROD-GT 2101: Assistant Arts Professor (new); or Existing NYU Graduate Film Full-Time Faculty or Adjunct Existing NYU Instructor: name, NYU title (should align with title listed in the proposal), highest academic degree earned, additional qualifications |
| 09/29/2023 |
AF sends additional follow up email: Following up on the other items. On your question as to whether making these changes is too much, we definitely need to be very careful not to present ourselves as either 1) not having a fully realized program ready for implementation; 2) or making substantive changes not reflected in the original proposal, undermining the review process and the reviewer's understanding of the program. My goal in framing the responses is to avoid this impression. Internship: As this is an elective, I think it is fine that it is shifting to the summer--this aligns with the elective set up in the proposal sample schedule. However, the fact that it is shifting to 10 weeks is a little bit more noticeable and potentially problematic as the terms you listed in the proposal are 6 weeks long. Please explain how the internship would align with these terms (just as a narrative in an email, I will integrate into our response). The other issue I see with the syllabus is that half of the instructional time is asynchronous guest lectures, but no topics or objectives have been identified for these in the syllabus. If you cannot provide a week-by-week list of what the guest lectures will focus on or who will teach them, please provide a clear set of topics and objectives that would be the focus of this time. The number of topics/objectives should be appropriate to 600 minutes of teaching time. Thesis I syllabus: I think the changes look great and should be sufficient for our response. Please send Thesis II when you are able. AF adds: If I receive responses by COB I will ensure that our response is compiled and sent to NYSED before the weekend. |
| 09/29/2023 |
Sabeen Edwin sends revised syllabus for Thesis II course |
| 09/29/2023 |
Annie responds to AF: Thank you for the quick response. We appreciate that we might have a language that is not easy to understand for others outside the school and rely on your experience in translation. The reason I mentioned development is because there will be so many faculty involved in the development of the courses that it will mean that a contingency plan is actually quite easy because existing faculty and external faculty that we hire to do this development work will know these classes, the learning objectives, the week to week activities and be excellently prepared to actually deliver the course when it goes live. All that said, it doesn't really matter for this paperwork but we wanted you all to know that. Your response works: NYU Response: Below we have listed our faculty plans for each of the identified courses as listed in our proposal faculty table. As detailed here, three of these six courses were identified as being able to be filled by existing NYU faculty as a contingency plan during the hiring process. For the three courses where we did not identify existing faculty as a contingency plan, the first possible implementation date for each course is a full semester following the current planned hiring (August 2024), with no course offered before spring 2025. This timeline is outlined in the sample student schedule. We are working on identifying existing NYU instructors who would teach each of these courses in the case there are delays with hiring. We have included some individuals already identified in the list below: PROD-GT 2004: Adjuncts (new) Rosalind Lichter, Adjunct Instructor, J.D., Business lawyer specializing in entertainment law, executive employment compensation, and corporate transactions. Her entertainment practice involves all aspects of film, book publishing, television, copyright. licensing and the Internet. PROD-GT 2005: Adjuncts (new) Anthony Weintraub, Adjunct Instructor, M.A. Film Production. Accomplished screenwriter, film and television producer and director, with a foot in industries ranging from feature films, children's media, communications, and branding. PROD-GT 2102: Adjuncts (new) Philip Derise, Adjunct Instructor, MFA Film Production. Philip is a filmmaker and educator trained within the MFA in film production from NYU Tisch School of the Arts international campus in Singapore. Philip's credits include documentary and commercial director work for Vox Media, Group Nine Media, Grey Advertising, Audible, Horizon Media, Doctors of the World, the United Nations, Meridian Content (now Washington Square Films.). PROD-GT 2006: Assistant Arts Professor (new); or Existing NYU Graduate Full-Time Faculty Jennifer Ruff, Associate Arts Professor, B.A. English Literature. Jennifer has worked on numerous award winning films, including Kelly Reichardt's Old Joy, Alfonso Cuarón's Y Tu Mama Tambien, Kim Pierce's Boys Don't Cry, and Lisa Cholodenko's High Art. PROD-GT 2100: Assistant Arts Professor (new); or Existing NYU Graduate Film Full-Time Faculty or Adjunct Darrell Wilson , Associate Arts Professor, MFA Film and Performance Arts. Distinguished Teacher, Darrell Wilson is a film artist and sculpter whose short films, media installations and sculptural works have been exhibited at the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, The Collective for the Living Cinema & The Museum of the Moving Image in New York City, The Cinematheque in Montreal, Gallerie Maximilien Guillot in Paris and various independent film festivals and galleries throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. PROD-GT 2101: Assistant Arts Professor (new); or Existing NYU Graduate Film Full-Time Faculty or Adjunct Christina DeHaven, Assistant Arts Professor, BFA Film Production. Christina has over 20 years of experience in producing, line production, and production management that includes short films, feature documentaries, digital series, music videos and commercials. She is an active member of the Producers Guild of America and New York Women in Film & Television |
| 09/29/2023 |
Annie sends follow up email: RE: Internship -- We had adjusted the 6-week summer internship to a 10-week internship to accommodate the many students pursuing the degree that have jobs or families or both. Ten weeks will allow students more time to achieve the 100 hours of internship work required for the class. The class will have the same learning outcomes, the shift in weeks simply provides more flexibility for the students to accomplish the required internship hours. However, for this purpose, we can run it as a six week class but allow ten weeks to complete the 100 hours of internship hours. Does that work? Attached, please find the updated six-week syllabus with topics. Please advise and THANKS for all your help |
| 09/29/2023 |
Annie reaches out to AF: I just wanted to check back in with you -- are there more questions or information needed regarding all that we have provided today? Please advise. |
| 09/29/2023 |
AF responds, confirming OAPRA is compiling final draft of NYSED response |
| 09/29/2023 |
Annie confirms receipt |
| 10/02/2023 |
AF writes to Ellen Stevens of NYSED: Good morning and happy Monday! Thank you for the time and care you have taken to review our proposal. I have attached a PDF of our responses to this email. Please let us know if there is anything else that we may provide for you to help support you with moving this proposal forward. Thank you again! |
| 10/02/2023 |
AF reaches out to Tisch team, informing stakeholders that response has been sent to NYSED |
| 10/02/2023 |
Annie Stanton responds, confirming receipt |
| 10/03/2023 |
NYSED approves proposal, JS sends unofficial notification to Tisch |