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Academic Planning Campus Conversations November 30

8am, Gunter 1120

5 people attending
4 attended Round 1
0 attended Round 2

Build and support a campus environment characterized by inclusive decision-making, dialogue, shared governance, diversity, and respect for all members of the University.

• “Respect”—Classified staff evaluation defines what must be done to reach “peak performance” but the “reward” is not defined in advance (and vice versa: limited penalties)
• Need campus environment that communicates accomplishments (our environment doesn’t value people)
• Need more participation in representative groups, and they need to have a meaningful role
• Goal needs some emphasis on how decisions will ultimately be made

Recruit and retain high-quality faculty, staff and administrators.

• I don’t equate this to dollars; it’s about showing you value people
• Facilities, infrastructure, budget help recruit employees
• Incentives vary, depending on which stage of your career you’re in

Build, improve, and maintain university facilities and infrastructure appropriate to our academic mission and functions.

• I’m all for that goal
• As a student 10 years ago, I enjoyed unlimited access to computer labs but I would like to see students have unlimited access in every classroom
• [Commenting on comment above] Some faculty don’t want that distraction
• Important to know meaning of “appropriate to our academic mission”

Make teaching learning, scholarship/creative activity, and service the core of the university.

• Seems we haven’t put much emphasis on role of mission
• “Service”—Do we mean customer service?
• We need to find out what our customers want (Does IT provide services student want? Are we teaching what students want? Do we do what the state wants/needs? Are classes small enough?)

Provide high-quality co-curricular learning experiences for all students.

• We don’t know meaning of co-curricular
• [Recommendation] Provide high-quality learning experiences outside the classroom for all students..

CrDecember 1, 2006 environment of transparency that supports the academic plan.

• What does within an environment of transparency mean?
• End goal after “resources” (strike remainder of sentence). Budgeting affects the whole university—it’s not just about the academic plan
• If all contracts were public record after signing, it would be more transparent

Build an institutional identity and reputation for academic excellence.

• We never said “why” we were Colorado’s best university experience
• This is about publication of good things happening at UNC
• It’s hard to buy things with UNC logo off campus

Cultivate external partnerships and relationships in support of academic excellence and community engagement.

• The group sees the differences between the last two goals.
• It would be better to have no TV channel than ours (Aims has channel) Need resources.

QUESTIONS/COMMENTS:

• Need to address relationship/connection with students (consistent, enthusiastic advising, residence hall programming)

NEXT SEMESTER

• This isn’t too time consuming
• I thought Round 2 was the same as Round 1
• I like the interaction among different areas
• Only knew about it because supervisor shared information
• Encourage supervisors to share information
• Share results of this process. Let people see how academic plan goals affect budget.