Meeting Minutes

Meeting with Religious Studies Intro by David Brown Intro on teaching and reaching visioning Laying out of fall work Role of Committee and Report Comment: Shouldn’t we have a Vice Provost for Globalization if we’re serious about it? Comment: How do we make combining the Arts and Sciences easier? Team...

Meeting with IAFS faculty and staff directors Intro by Jeff Cox Intro on teaching and reaching visioning Laying out of fall work Role of Committee and Report Comment: They wanted to explain the IAFS program and, in particular, their brand of interdisciplinarity which functions through constant attention to finding and...

Meeting with the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Intro to A&S Strategic Planning Process by David Brown History of A&S process Work of committee to date—draft vision statement Schedule for committee’s work Intro by Jeff Cox Intro on teaching and reaching visioning Laying out of fall work Role of Committee...

OIT Leadership Group Intro by Jeff Cox Intro on teaching and reaching visioning Laying out of fall work Role of Committee and Report Intro to A&S Strategic Planning Process by David Brown History of A&S process Work of committee to date—draft vision statement Schedule for committee’s work Comment: This is...

Meeting with Strategic Relations Intro by Jeff Cox Intro on teaching and reaching visioning Laying out of fall work Role of Committee and Report Comment: We should think about mixing up the structure and nature of our degrees to provide more flexibility Comment: We should make sure that our reward...

Town hall, British Studies Room, Norlin Library Intro by Jeff Cox Intro on teaching and reaching visioning Laying out of fall work Role of Committee and Report Q. How many topics will Academic Futures take on? A. There may be 10, 20, 50 great ideas emerging – not all will...

Intro by Jeff Cox Intro on teaching and reaching visioning Laying out of fall work Role of Committee and Report Q. How do you keep the conversation positive? A. You design the conversation in such a way that its focus sustains aspirational thinking. You give people a place (e.g., a...

Intro by Jeff Cox Intro on teaching and reaching visioning Laying out of fall work Role of Committee and Report Q. Process: What do you want to see from white papers? A. Vision and Barriers (not solutions). Q. How do we hear about the meetings? A. The primary avenues for...

Discovery Learning Center N=12 Intro by Jeff Cox Intro on teaching and reaching visioning Laying out of fall work Role of Committee and Report Q. How big should we think? Can we work to change policy at NSF? A. We listen to everything but we can only control what we...

Intro by Jeff Cox Intro on teaching and reaching visioning Laying out of fall work Role of Committee and Report Q. Welcome the transparency and openness. What are the constraints (of the AF process)? A. The Provost says he wants to have this conversation without constraints. We don’t see this...