Faculty Forums

Academic Futures Town Hall Notes Graduate Student Success May 4, 2018 General: Jeff Cox and committee members gave an overview of the committee’s work to date on this topic, including conversations about financial support, opportunities for academic and professional engagement and building communities, career readiness, and mentoring resources and structures...

Academic Futures Town Hall Notes Staff Success May 2, 2018 Comments and Questions: Participants expressed their appreciation for the AF process and their ability to be involved in it. They urged that the campus include a broad range of staff members in all such discussions. Staff very much want to...

Academic Futures Town Hall Notes Technology & Education – Online & Distance Learning May 1, 2018 Jeff Cox and committee members: Brief update on the Academic Futures process and the committee’s current thinking and status on this topic. Highlights about this topic included: We currently follow an “uncoordinated brilliance” model...

Academic Futures Town Hall Notes Keeping the Public in a Public Research University April 26, 2018 Jeff Cox and committee members: Brief update on the Academic Futures process and the committee’s current thinking and status on this topic. Comments and Questions: There is agreement on focusing on the public good...

Academic Futures Town Hall Notes Interdisciplinary Teaching, Research & Creative Work April 24, 2018 Jeff Cox and AF Committee Members: Brief update on Academic Futures and its work on Interdisciplinary work. Comments and Questions: Better access to equipment and instrumentation is important to collaborative research and teaching – we need...

Academic Futures Town Hall Notes Infrastructure, Space & Budget April 24, 2018 Jeff Cox: Brief update on the Academic Futures process. Some of the ideas that have come up in many of the conversations in these areas include affordable childcare, affordability of housing, the need for more communal space, and...

Academic Futures Town Hall Notes Online & Distance Education March 19, 2018 This meeting began with the topic of online and distance education, but also included comments on how that connects to “keeping the public in public education” and the need for centralization of various service structures. Comments: CSU seems...

Academic Futures Open Forum: Research and Creative Work Moderator: Jeff Cox Points made and issues raised included: Engaging students There is a night-and-day difference in student experience and retention based on whether or not a student is engaged in a creative, meaningful way (vs. just sitting in lecture halls). We...

Academic Futures Open Forum: Student Success Moderator: Jeff Cox Points made and issues raised included: Campus is understaffed The percentage of faculty has kept pace with the percentage of new students, but the percentage of staff has declined. Campus square footage has grown faster than both faculty and staff –...

December 14, 2017 Academic Futures Open Forum: Research Infrastructure Moderator: Jeff Cox Points made and issues raised included: Funding model/processes for labs Need to look at a funding model where the focus is on serving the scientific and educational needs rather than running a lab “like a business”. We are...