Minutes - Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies Meeting, Oct 11, 2017
Germanic and Slavic Studies
McKenna 112, Dept. of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures
Guests : David Brown and Mary Krauss
David Brown – Chair of Strategic Planning Committee - ASC
Mary Krauss – Undergraduate Education
ASC Strategic Planning Committee
Vision Statement: College of Arts and Sciences creates creative, critical,
compassionate thinkers.
- Creative/Critical: Reintroducing the College of Arts and Sciences to the
meaning of liberal arts education
- Compassionate: Personnel matters, interactions between professors and
students, etc. Bringing faculty research into teaching.
- Please go to A&S website, strategic planning page, leave comments, contact
members directly
- Importance of input from faculty, staff and students
- Need for a clear mission statement
- Strategic plan to be submitted in June, implementation structures ill be
worked on from there
Academic Futures
- Respond to changing students, landscape, and new deans
- Most senior dean has been here for 3 years
- Campus wide
- Faculty staff and student input
- Process: department meetings, facilitated conversations focused on emerging
themes, more focused conversations will happen in the future
- Committee on website – and meeting minutes
- Report due to Provost on March 1st
- Mid April – provost plan moving forward
Other initiatives on campus
- Foundations of Excellence (First Year Experience) – tightly aligned with
above two processes
- Campus Visioning – space
What role is Flagship 2030 playing?
- Morphed into strategic imperatives –
o Successful students who are leaders
o Serving humanity
o University of innovation
o Both initiatives will be ways of addressing those strategic imperatives
What does it mean not to have scholarship as part of vision statement?
- Seen as part of “critical” piece
What about living wage for lecturers and instructors?
How can you ensure that our visioning won’t 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’t caught up? Where’s the present in
the future?
How are you addressing campus climate?
How do we envision when we feel like we are constantly under threat?