Germanic and Slavic Studies聽
McKenna 112, Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Guests : David Brown and Mary Krauss
David Brown 鈥� Chair of Strategic Planning Committee - ASC
Mary Krauss 鈥� Undergraduate Education
ASC Strategic Planning Committee
Vision Statement: College of Arts and Sciences creates creative, critical,
compassionate thinkers.
- 聽 聽Creative/Critical: Reintroducing the College of Arts and Sciences to the
meaning of liberal arts education
- 聽 聽Compassionate: Personnel matters, interactions between professors and
students, etc. Bringing faculty research into teaching.
- 聽 聽Please go to A&S website, strategic planning page, leave comments, contact
members directly
- 聽 聽Importance of input from faculty, staff and students
- 聽 聽Need for a clear mission statement
- 聽 聽Strategic plan to be submitted in June, implementation structures ill be
worked on from there
Academic Futures
- 聽 聽Respond to changing students, landscape, and new deans
- 聽 聽Most senior dean has been here for 3 years
- 聽 聽Campus wide
- 聽 聽Faculty staff and student input
- 聽 聽Process: department meetings, facilitated conversations focused on emerging
themes, more focused conversations will happen in the future
- 聽 聽Committee on website 鈥� and meeting minutes
- 聽 聽Report due to Provost on March 1st
- 聽 聽Mid April 鈥� provost plan moving forward
Other initiatives on campus
- 聽 聽Foundations of Excellence (First Year Experience) 鈥� tightly aligned with
above two processes
- 聽 聽Campus Visioning 鈥� space
What role is Flagship 2030 playing?
- 聽 聽Morphed into strategic imperatives 鈥�
o 聽 聽Successful students who are leaders
o 聽 聽Serving humanity
o 聽 聽University of innovation
o 聽 聽Both initiatives will be ways of addressing those strategic imperatives
What does it mean not to have scholarship as part of vision statement?
- 聽 聽Seen as part of 鈥渃ritical鈥� piece
What about living wage for lecturers and instructors?
How can you ensure that our visioning won鈥檛 be used to cut our resources?
How do we address something so broad and formless?
A white paper could simply be: these are the questions that you think should
be addressed.
How do we look forward when we haven鈥檛 caught up? Where鈥檚 the present in
the future?
How are you addressing campus climate?
How do we envision when we feel like we are constantly under threat?