All Faculty Meeting - September 21, 2007, 10:00 am - 12:00 noon
(Room 501)

September 14 , 2007

 

Agenda

10:00 Dean's report

  • Enrollment and budget status
  • Priorities
    • Student Services
    • Labs
    • Process improvement
    • Assessment & benchmarking
    • Scenario-based planning
    • Boyce chair
  • Web site upgrade status
  • CSSD and our IT infrastructure
  • BOV meeting in October

10:15 SIS Council chair's report

10:25 Program chairs' 5-minute reports on priorities and directions for this academic year

  • BSIS
  • GIST
  • Tele
  • LIS

10:45 RIG chairs' 3-minute reports, answering the following questions:

  1. What was planned and what was accomplished over the past year?
  2. What are the priorities for the coming year?
  3. Do you recommend continuing the RIG, changing its focus, or discontinuing its work?

Current RIGs -

  • Visualization (Sochats)
  • Ethics and Policy (Carbo)
  • Spatial Information Science (Hirtle)
  • Cyberinfrastructure (Tipper)
  • SAIS (Joshi)
  • Health Information (Detlefsen)
  • Repository Research for Cultural Heritage Resources (Larsen)
  • Online Education (Tomer)
  • Human Centered Interative Systems (Spring)

11:15 Entertain proposals for adding new or dropping existing RIGs

11:30 Board of Visitors meeting on October 9-10, 2007

  • Review response to and progress on recommendations from last year's meeting
  • Review curricular changes in each program
  • Review progress in recruitment and research funding
  • Review priorities for the academic year

11:40 Linking plans to activities

  • MindMap representation of plan
  • Use of MindMap for tracking progress
  • Incorporation of scenarios to refine plan elements
  • Finalizing 2008-09 plan by mid-December
  • Using plan as foundation for annual response to Provost's planning questions

11:50 Matters arising

12:00 Adjourn to lunch (provided)

 

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