IU President McRobbie created a task force or working group downstate last fall to find ungainly IU policies and practices, then begin the work of streamlining them. The first results, the so-called PIRAB Report, with implementation dates in the weeks ahead, has been released for our consideration and use. PIRAB roughly stands for the IU President’s… Read more »
Innovation & Mission
How to Prepare for the 2/17 Discussion of Blueprint 2.0
Colleagues are nominating sentences from Blueprint 2.0 for our discussion on Friday, February 17th. The document has grown by mid-week and the nominations are now complete. The nominated sentences are posted in this brief document–reading that ahead of the meeting will make your time there much more valuable. If time is short, consider reading or… Read more »
Nominated Sentences from Blueprint 2.0
Nominations are complete. This document will be the focus of Friday’s discussion. Colleagues have suggested that these are among the most interesting sentences in Blueprint 2.0. They offer them for our conversation on February 17th in the Senate. We are continuing to try to answer the request made by Executive Vice President John Applegate to… Read more »
President McRobbie on the values American universities hold dear
IU President Michael McRobbie published a commentary piece in US News & World Report in response to recent US actions to restrict immigration. A representative passage: Universities have always been truly international, with a tradition of opening their doors to the world, attracting scholars from every country and championing greater cultural and intellectual understanding, exchange… Read more »
Senate Agenda, February 17, 2017
Spring Semester meetings are held at 1:30 pm in DW 1001. Call to order. Approval of the minutes of the January 20, 2017 meeting. The gift to the campus of Evie Barton and past Senate president David Barton. President’s remarks, including a remembrance of the contributions to this campus of Dr. Lester Wolfson, who served… Read more »
Resources for the February 17 discussion of Blueprint 2.0
This listing will grow into a fuller set of postings the days ahead. For starters, however, here is a two-page summary of Blueprint 2.0, meant to make it easier for any colleague to locate sections of this strategic plan of greatest interest. And then we have Blueprint 2.0 itself. This is the strategic plan for… Read more »
Summary of Blueprint 2.0
Blueprint 2.0 Summary Notes (by section) Overview (preceding the Table of Contents). This brief headnote explicitly ties regional campus progress to three particular sections of IU’s Bicentennial Strategic Plan and to a new commitment to collaboration between the regional campuses in order to achieve those and other goals in the years just ahead. The three… Read more »
Chancellor Allison’s message
In response to a very difficult election here in the U. S., Chancellor Terry Allison released this message to the campus on Wednesday, November 9th: The difficult and contentious presidential election is over and today we are collectively absorbing the result. Many are angry or saddened because their dignity has been threatened during a harsh… Read more »
Finding the promise in Blueprint 2.0
One of the assertions made in the October Senate meeting was that there are unexplored models of innovation and reform presented in Blueprint 2.0, the strategic plan for IU’s regional campuses, that might be very interesting and fruitful to bring to our campus. In my remarks I suggested the example of item 5C, which calls… Read more »