Spring Semester meetings are held at 1:30 pm in DW 1001. Call to order. Approval of the minutes of the February 17, 2017 meeting. President’s remarks Conclusion of the February conversation about Blueprint 2.0, campus directions, and the upcoming Executive Committee report to Executive Vice President Applegate. Please prepare for this discussion by reading these… Read more »
Senate Meetings
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 »
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 »
Senate Agenda, January 20, 2017
Please note: Spring Semester meetings are held at 1:30 pm in DW 1001. Call to order. Approval of minutes from the November 18, 2016 meeting. New online archive of major Senate records. Senate Constitution and Handbook of campus policies going online, with review and updates. The nominations for elected positions for 2017-2018 The launch of… Read more »
Senate Agenda, November 18, 2016
Academic Senate Agenda (with links and annotations as these become available) Friday, November 18, 2016, 10:00 am, DW 1001 Call to order Approval of the minutes of the October 21, 2016 meeting President’s remarks and discussion DUO login replaces old IU login practices on January 3, 2017 Domestic partner benefits update LEAP and general… 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 »
Resource links | Senate, October 2016
Important links for major pedagogical goals and values statements mentioned in the October 2016 Academic Senate meeting include: The values and goals handout for the meeting. The AACSB’s new accreditation standards for schools of business, including Leighton here at IUSB, with the focus on engagement, innovation, and impact. LEAP — the AAC&U vision for liberal… Read more »