The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Draft Strategic Plan has been posted on the CLAS website for an approval vote by all faculty and staff for several months. At the risk of sounding like a broken record, I can’t stress enough how critical it is for everyone to review the plan and vote. This plan represents the hard work of so many people within the college: individuals devoting their talents, committees coming together, and folks giving up their time to make a better future for CLAS. The instructions might sound complicated, but I promise it’s three simple steps:
- when you click on the link (you will need to be on the university network or VPN) you will be asked to sign-in with your university credentials
- you can download a pdf (click on the blue box indicated) to review the plan in its entirety
- once you are ready to vote simply scroll to the bottom of the page and click either the “approve” or “disapprove” option
If you have reservations about the plan that lead you to vote to disapprove please feel free to reach out to Tracy Kohm, CLAS Marketing and Communication, and let your concerns be known. This isn’t required, and you are certainly free to vote anonymously and keep your decision private, but I want to know about any dissatisfaction with the goals as we’ve outlined them. I feel strongly that this plan represents a path forward for CLAS that will serve all of our faculty, staff and students well – but if you disagree I want to hear why.
Please vote right now – click the link and vote before you do anything else today.
And now for something completely different: over the summer leadership merged several units (academic technology from OIT, CETL, ODE staff) into the Division for Teaching Innovation and Program Strategy. This change was made as part of a roll out infrastructure to support the recommendations of the digital strategy task force and our hybrid campus model. The TIPS website is now live and includes a range of resources for faculty and staff that support teaching and learning efforts:
- A sign-up for one-on-one consultations on academic technology, instructional design, and general teaching support
- A shared calendar with registration links for TIPS Division workshops and trainings
- Information on program and course development resources, market intelligence services, and microcredential efforts
- Information about upcoming Open Educational Resource (OER) cross-campus efforts
- Resources on teaching and learning such as checklists and getting started guides
- Information on each of the teams that comprise the TIPS Division
If you have questions about TIPS please reach out to Katie Linder, Associate Vice Chancellor for Digital Strategy and Learning.