Thanks to the good work of Scott Opasik, a large and growing number of Academic Senate documents are now preserved online in a more lasting and readily searchable pdf format in a Senate section of the AIM (Archives of Institutional Memory) archive system.
Sample Strategic Plan Section
Sample Strategic Planning Passage – Blueprint 2.0 – for the 1/20/2017 meeting
- Engagement and regional development. The Regional Campuses will be engaged in the lives of their communities, regions, and the state, and support development as part of their core mission.
Action Items
5A. Partner with regional governments, schools, health care organizations, businesses, and others to address critical state and regional needs.
- Each campus will prepare and at the next opportunity apply for Community Engagement Classification as determined by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
- Collaborate with and support K–12 education to end the need for remediation at the collegiate level.
- Collaborate with local and state public health authorities in Indiana and the Schools of Public Health on the core campuses to improve health indicators in Indiana.
5B. Offer certificate, undergraduate, and graduate academic programs that support local and regional development needs and adult learners.
- Offer co-curricular and extracurricular opportunities that serve regional needs.
- Use data-driven market or needs analyses to determine local, regional, and state needs when proposing new academic programs.
- Develop specially tailored programs as needed.
- Investigate use of competency-based models.
5C. Support, in addition to disciplinary research, faculty research based on or directed to regional needs and circumstances.
- Establish community-based, applied research laboratories at each campus for interdisciplinary study of regional needs.
- Connect students’ education to the local community through academically grounded service commitments, requiring experiential coursework and activities directed to local businesses and organizations.
5D. Create local and regional partnerships for infrastructure, educational opportunities, co-curricular activities, and regional development.
- Engage in problem-solving and innovation with community and regional partners to address regional needs.
- Lead and participate actively in community and regional development and planning organizations.
Measures of Progress and Success Community Engagement Classification
- Actions taken to prepare for or maintain the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification Service learning
- Number of students engaged in service learning projects
- Number of service learning projects
Budget Hearings Template
The document we will discuss in preparation for the Budget Hearings later in the month.
Senate Elected Committees–Slate of Nominees for 2017-2018
2017-2018 Senate Elected Committees
Slate of Nominees prepared by E. Roth, S. Imes, J. Smith,
1) Vice President – Susan Thomas (LIB)
2) Secretary – Kristyn Quimby (HS)
3) At Large (need 3): Jeff Wright (Arts); Gwynn Mettetal (ED); Hope Davis (ED)
4) UFC Rep: Neovi Karakatsanis (CLAS)
5) Athletics (need 3): Barb White (HS); Scott Opasik (LIB); Jeremy Linton (ED)
6) PTR (need 3, 1 Full; also need 2 non-voting for 1-year terms):
A) Full: Peter Bushnell (CLAS)
B) David Blouin (CLAS); Yi Cheng (CLAS)
C) Untenured: Ian Clift (HS); Caitlin Vlaminick (HS)
7) Faculty Misconduct (need 3)
A) Jamie Smith (CLAS); Dan Holm (ED); Larry Lambert (Arts)
B) Alternates agreed to serve another year: Julio Hernando (CLAS); Andrea Rusnock (CLAS); Lisa Zwicker (CLAS); Kwadwo Okrah (ED); Teresa Dobrzykowski (HS)
8) Board of Review (need 5): PN Saksena (B&E); Amy Gretencord (HS); Jake Mattox (CLAS); Julie Elliott (LIB); Kathleen Sullivan (ED)
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 the Carnegie initiative.
- Report from the University Faculty Council’s November meeting. DACA students and other topics from that meeting.
- Update on our Senate’s 2016 resolution on domestic partner benefits, Trustees actions, and later developments.
- Increasing faculty involvement in the budget process. Budget template.
- Report from the Regional Faculty Council’s November meeting and the request from EVP John Applegate to speak up about campus directions.
- Screening of strategic plans. How to approach this task, and a sample.
- Announcements.
Indiana University and DACA students
On behalf of Indiana University, President McRobbie has signed the “Statement in Support of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) Program and our Undocumented Immigrant Students.” A key paragraph says:
To our country’s leaders we say that DACA should be upheld, continued, and expanded. We are prepared to meet with you to present our case. This is both a moral imperative and a national necessity. America needs talent – and these students, who have been raised and educated in the United States, are already part of our national community. They represent what is best about America, and as scholars and leaders they are essential to the future.
An article in the South Bend Tribune suggests that some Indiana universities may be contemplating other steps. Inside Higher Ed has a series of articles on the issue unfolding in November during the transition to the presidency of Donald Trump.
IU login system–big changes
As you may have heard, the one-step method of logging into many IU accounts will be ending on January 3, 2017, and nobody will be able to login in that old manner any more. Notice, of course, that this might present a problem to anyone away from campus over the semester break–so the time to prepare for the two-step system is now.
At the end of the Friday, November 18 Senate meeting, a full staff of IT folks will be available to help anyone make the transition to the new Duo system. IF you wish, you can work with them immediately after the meeting to carry out this registration. Or you can probably go through the steps on your own in your office, too, using this website as a starting point.
To complete the Duo registration, whether in your office or at the end of the Senate meeting, you need to have handy:
- Your cell phone or tablet, OR
- Your token of the kind IU people have been using for the last year or two.
You can also go through the steps with an IT person about this at the Support Center in the north wing of Wiekamp Hall, room 1245.
You’ll set up one or more of these options for login:
- Regular username/password plus Duo app on your phone or tablet.
- Regular username/password plus a very fast phone call to your phone.
- Regular username/password plus your token.
Troubleshooting is available in at the Support Center, DW 1245, Mondays throughThursdays 8:00 am to 7:30 pm, Fridays 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. Or call 574-520-5555 (forwards to Bloomington after hours).
UFC Executive Committee update
Notes from UFC Executive Committee, November 15, 2016
UFC’s Budgetary Affairs Leaning* Committee
- *Four “leaning” committees are available for issues that arise
- [but may not ordinarily have enough work to justify a “standing” committee]
- Review of responsibility-centered management as an approach at IU is underway
- It is different own application campus by campus, partially due to scale
- University-wide review of RCM starting now
- Campus-level review of RCM will also follow
Unified Student ID Card
- May contradict campus branding in some places—eg. IUPUI’s JagTag
- Campus identity should be preserved on the card, some say
- Samples of the cards are available for review
- Virtue of having it count also for voter ID
- Seeking an update on the options for campus branding
Course Transfer Policy
- Revision to ACA-56 underway for clarification
- Transfer credit from community colleges could not be used for upper-level credit
- Eg. L250 at a community college can’t fulfill similarly-named L350 at IU
- Will go to the agenda of the next UFC meeting
School of Education Reorganization
- IUPUI and IUB’s shared School of Education is being divided
- Complexity of standing and ad hoc committee overlap going forward
- Committee growing in size to seventeen or so in response
- Seems to focus on IUPUI, IUB, with little connection to distant regionals
Sexual Harassment Policy
- Revisions approved by a faculty subcommittee
- Will be seen by UFC shortly for review
Post-Presidential Election Issues
- President’s message Monday to the whole university appreciated
- Need for scrupulous neutrality in politics in the present circumstance
- Budget decisions ahead look favorable
- The need to preserve that favorable outlook and goodwill in the legislature
- Careful about adhering to state law here, eg. Bloomington students calling for being a refuge center
- Ways to be responsive to the breadth of our communities, eg. 5C in the strategic plans
Domestic Partner Benefits Change
- John Welan, HR, doing the review mentioned in the benefits kit
- Not easy to keep this topic in front of the UFC folks today
Grand Challenges
- How many faculty are participating in this process?
- And in the one that has been funded already?
- Fred Cate seeking to simplify the application process
- Revisit this in the UFC
- Seems to have a big-campus focus?
UFC Meeting Agenda
- Several of these items listed here in this set of notes will go to the agenda for the November meeting
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 education
- Faculty ‘presence’ update: RFC, UFC
- Politics and the university
- New Handbook
- Strategic directions collaborative
- Nominating committee
- Chancellor Allison’s report
- Budget process and template for Spring 2017: Vice Chancellor Iapalucci
- Budget template, budget status, prognostications
- Announcements
- Opportunity for DUO help to beat the January 3 termination of the old IU login system
- Adjournment
President McRobbie’s message
On Monday, Indiana University President McRobbie addressed the entire IU community in the following message, widely distributed.
Indiana University students, faculty, and staff:
The 2016 presidential election is over, and our country has made a decision. The contentious political climate of the last several months has underscored deep divisions within our country. Debate and discussion about the issues over which the election was contested will and should continue, but it must be carried out in a spirit of tolerance and respect for the opinions of others, and one that recognizes everyone’s fundamental right to freedom of speech.
The university has received some reports of harassment and intimidation of members of the IU community. This kind of behavior is completely inconsistent with the spirit of tolerance and respect that we must foster, and it is totally unacceptable, as is any form of vandalism to property. Indiana University will do all it can to ensure the safety of all in its community and to support them. All members of the IU community are highly valued and warmly welcomed here. Our commitment to diversity and inclusiveness is one of our core values.
Indiana University—and the nation’s other leading public universities—can serve as models of communities whose members are committed to evaluating new ideas, fostering meaningful debate, and openly addressing the very real problems that confront the people of our country and the world. We must continue to build a university community whose members are committed to the highest standards of ethical conduct and integrity—a community in which there is no room for discrimination or harassment based on anyone’s actual or perceived race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, personal convictions or national origin.
We must also aspire to be an engaged Indiana University in the state and beyond. Indiana University is a vital part of a thriving democracy. We educate students who go on to engage in work that advances the common good. We prepare students for lifetimes of active, engaged citizenship. We can also lead the way in contributing to greater understanding of the causes of some of the most pressing problems facing us, and to finding solutions to these problems.
As we prepare for IU’s Bicentennial and our third century, we must recommit ourselves to fulfilling these missions and to educating the next generation of civic, cultural, social, and economic leaders of the state, the nation, and the world.
Sincerely,
Michael A. McRobbie
President