Minutes - A&S Advising Center Meeting, Oct 10, 2017
A&S Advising Center
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: Advising loads are too high. The campus must spend more money on advising.
Q. How many students on the committees for the two processes?
A. There are two on each.
Comment: Advisors not only have important connections to departments; they also help students make real their desire for interdisciplinary education.
Q. What will implementation look like?
This visioning phase is the only start of a process that will take three years and more. Now we are asking what we want to do. Then we need to figure out how to do it and then we need to implement it. There will need to be one or more implementation committees formed.
Q. Are we looking to our peers?
A. We will be looking at peer institutions as we try to figure out the projects that AF wants to set for the campus.
Comment: The campus must supply child care.
Comment: The campus must improve transportation
Comment: The advisors see the overall student not the student in a classroom or major.
Comment: Students want to customize their education.
Comment: Advisors are a key to solving the ACO situation.
Comment: Leaders need to think about how they promote compassion.
Comment: We need to be aware of the growing mental health problems of our students.
- Advisors are over-worked and burdened with too many students. They are also under-paid.
- Are there any students on the committee?
- Advisors usually have to be consulted by students whenever anything inter-disciplinary is tried.
- Staff goals and concerns don't seem to be very well connected to college goals.
- What about implementation? How will it happen?
- Is this process required by the higher learning commission?
- What projects have come up with interdisciplinary teaching?
- Transportation and childcare are growing concerns.
- Advising can be very helpful in advising since it sees the whole process or all aspects of a student's career.
- What about the open option problem?
- How do we make sure compassion really filters down?
- What are we doing about the growing need for disability resources (Minnesota confronted this problem).