Open discussion area for Faculty Meeting on September 6, 2017

Please add any comments or questions you have regarding topics at the Faculty Meeting on September 6, 2017. You may post anonymously. Comment cards left at the meeting:   Can we hear what is the status of the QEP? Could we get a report on our budget status and projections? For the faculty website: Something …

Debt paid

This year, I officially messed up three names in faculty meeting, and I have now made good on my pledge to donate to the Loyalty Fund for every error. If you want to increase my giving, just wait a little longer before speaking – I guarantee I would have messed up far more if you …

Open discussion area for faculty meeting on May 3, 2017

Please feel free to comment on any aspect of the May 3rd faculty meeting or on other topics. You may post anonymously if you wish.   Comment cards left at the meeting: How many would stand in opposition today if we approved LAGER 4.5 + global engagement course?   The fact that we’re not talking about …

Clarification and further development of Jim Hood’s ideas

[From Jim Hood] I wanted to put my suggestion from yesterday’s meeting in writing along with some other thoughts.  Please feel free to share these ideas on the Moon Room. Content suggestions Since a number of faculty are concerned that we be more specific about content before approving the proposed gen ed curriculum, here are …

Discussion area for April 5 faculty meeting

Feel free to add comments, questions, or suggestions below. You may post anonymously if you wish. There were six anonymous notecards left at the meeting, and one more (signed) addressed to Clerk’s Committee which I have delivered to those folks directly. Suggestions re: the query A good step might be to not write a letter to …

Revising our General Education Curriculum by May, 2017

Dear Colleagues, We have a challenging second half of the semester. As you know, we’ve been engaged in a curriculum revision process that began several years ago in Curriculum Committee and then moved to our ad hoc committee to determine whether we wanted to pursue a curriculum revision. We approved that committee’s recommendation that we …

New comments about meeting

We had five card messages left at the faculty meeting on Wednesday, which is a record. One was confidential to me. The others are posted here, along with a long and interesting commentary from Tom Guthrie. Please check them out.