Minutes - Department of Anthropology Meeting, Oct 3, 2017
Anthropology
Intro to A&S Strategic Planning Process by David Brown
- History of A&S process
- Work of committee to date—draft vision statement
- Schedule for committee’s work
Intro by Jeff Cox
- Intro on teaching and reaching visioning
- Laying out of fall work
- Role of Committee and Report
Comment: Objects to the idea that the process is being undertaken because we have new leaders. Dean of A&S was removed to make way for process not the other way.
Q. Is it true Regent Hall already has a model of the end of the process?
A. No. This is an open conversation. We don’t know the questions to be asked, let along the answers we will arrive at through this process.
Q. How does this articulate with Flagship 2030?
A. Flagship 2030, as embodied in the Strategic Imperatives, provide the campus with a strategic plan. We are not engaged in writing a master plan. We are talking about the core practices of learning and discovery that define the mission of the university under the Strategic Imperatives.
Comment: Expand experiential learning.
Q. Why is the CFO involved in this process?
A. The chancellor has asked the Provost and the CFO to lead the campus. The Provost and the CFO want all of us—faculty, staff, and students—to work together to imagine the future of the university. The units that report to the CFO will be essential in moving from the visioning stage to the implementation phase.
Comment: This process is preferable to Flagship 2030 as it focuses on the work of the faculty.
Q: Are we looking at peer institutions?
- As both processes begin to focus on specifics, we will look to best practices elsewhere.
Comment: UC-Merced has abolished departments.
Comment: I like the A&S vision statement.
Comment: We need to figure out how to harness creativity.
Comment: Work on international studies. Perhaps create a school of global issues.
Comment: Work on schools within A&S that focus on particular sets of problems. For example, a School of the Sustainable Environment.
Comment: Adding schools does not eliminate barriers.
Comment: Other universities such as OSU are putting more money into initiatives such as this one.
Comment: Work on institute/department relations