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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 Keep institutes in sight during this process
Comment:聽 Interdisciplinarity is a key
Comment:聽 Don鈥檛 forget research baby直播app.聽 They can add to instructional strength
Comment:聽 Increase integration of institutes in the campus.聽 We need for flexibility.
Comment:聽 Organization of knowledge has changed over the years鈥攍ook at the rise neuroscience, cognitive science, sustainability science.聽 As a result, we should abolish disciplinary departments and organize around problems.
Comment:聽 Institutes should be strengthened as heart of interdisciplinary.
Comment:聽 Institutes should be able to grant tenure.
Comment:聽 Look at other universities for good ideas.
Comment:聽 make sure we are thinking about the publics we serve.
Comment:聽 Enable interdisciplinary teaching
Comment:聽 Outreach鈥攎ake sure people are rewarded.
Comment:聽 Work on internationalization, including bureaucratic barriers.
Comment:聽 Recognize the different amount of resources needed for different kinds of teaching.聽 It is not just a question of counting students in seats.聽 Some classes require different kinds of funding.聽 Pay attention to costs at local level of teaching.
Comment:聽 Make sure changes are viable for our students.
Comment:聽 Look to companies such as Google and Amazon to see what they want from graduates.
Comment:聽 Examine internships as a key to success for students.
Comment:聽 We need information/technology literacy so that students can sift through all the information in the world.
Comment:聽 Build up undergraduate research.
Comment:聽 Build conjoint classes (say, environmental science and environmental philosophy offered as linked classes.
Comment:聽 Need more internal awards for research.
Comment:聽 Stop talking about CU as a low resource university.聽 Fix it!
Comment:聽 Expand offering of university into areas such as public policy and health policy.