Minutes - Institute for Behavioral Sciences Meeting, Oct 5, 2017
Institute for Behavioral Sciences
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: Keep institutes in sight during this process
Comment: Interdisciplinarity is a key
Comment: Don鈥檛 forget research faculty. They can add to instructional strength
Comment: Increase integration of institutes in the campus. We need for flexibility.
Comment: Organization of knowledge has changed over the years鈥攍ook at the rise neuroscience, cognitive science, sustainability science. As a result, we should abolish disciplinary departments and organize around problems.
Comment: Institutes should be strengthened as heart of interdisciplinary.
Comment: Institutes should be able to grant tenure.
Comment: Look at other universities for good ideas.
Comment: make sure we are thinking about the publics we serve.
Comment: Enable interdisciplinary teaching
Comment: Outreach鈥攎ake sure people are rewarded.
Comment: Work on internationalization, including bureaucratic barriers.
Comment: Recognize the different amount of resources needed for different kinds of teaching. It is not just a question of counting students in seats. Some classes require different kinds of funding. Pay attention to costs at local level of teaching.
Comment: Make sure changes are viable for our students.
Comment: Look to companies such as Google and Amazon to see what they want from graduates.
Comment: Examine internships as a key to success for students.
Comment: We need information/technology literacy so that students can sift through all the information in the world.
Comment: Build up undergraduate research.
Comment: Build conjoint classes (say, environmental science and environmental philosophy offered as linked classes.
Comment: Need more internal awards for research.
Comment: Stop talking about CU as a low resource university. Fix it!
Comment: Expand offering of university into areas such as public policy and health policy.