Minutes - OIT Leadership Group Meeting, Sept 22, 2017
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鈥攄raft vision statement
- Schedule for committee鈥檚 work
Comment: This is a timely conversation
Comment: transparency is appreciated
Q: What does success look like?
- The provost has indicated that the conversation itself is worth doing, but the hope is to be able to arrive at a consensus about some planning priorities for our academic future.
Comment: Yes, there is value in the process to enable employee engagement
Comment: We need to consider the skill sets needed for our students as they prepare for future careers: communication; critical thinking; problem solving; willing to take risks; statistics and data science
Comment: We should discuss student debt.
Comment: Staff could help set up practicum courses for students
Comment: Increase communication between baby直播app and staff.
Comment: The next generation of teachers need to be interdisciplinary; and they need to inculcate soft skills along with technical ones.
Comment: The passion of the baby直播app can be transformative.
Comment: Go big!