彩民宝典

October 18

Linguistics (7 people)

Intro to A&S Strategic Planning Process by David Brown

• History of A&S process
• Work of committee to date鈥攄raft vision statement
• Schedule for committee鈥檚 work

Intro by Jeff Cox

• Intro on teaching and reaching visioning
• Laying out of fall work
• Role of Committee and Report

Comment:聽 Allocation of SCH to departments militates against team teaching which is a wonderful opportunity for the exchange of ideas and for our students.

Comment:聽 Need course releases to develop new kinds of courses.

Comment:聽 Institutes (ICS in particular) are great locations for interdisciplinary education

Comment:聽 Collaboration takes time.

Comment:聽 We need to heal the divisions between departments and institutes.

Comment:聽 Institute research faculty should be allowed to do more teaching

Comment:聽 We need to consider the role of centers in interdisciplinary work.

Comment:聽 We need to look at certificates in interdisciplinary education.

Comment:聽 There needs to be funding to support grass roots interdisciplinary education initiatives

Comment:聽 The process for getting innovative degrees through faculty curriculum committees is too cumbersome.

Comment:聽 Solve the problems for interdisciplinary PhDs; we need a template for interdisciplinary PhDs.