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Academic Planning Meeting October 6 , 2006

Communications
• Website information: Campus Conversations, Steering Committee meetings, subcommittee reports, Charting the Future reports, anonymous comment form
• Invitation to Campus Conversations: campus-wide e-mail, paper version in employee mailboxes
• Ask deans, directors and governance groups to send notices, make announcements
• UNC Today announcements
• Ad in The Mirror

Campus Conversations
• Concerns: Are the Spring 2006 subcommittee reports too detailed or focused to use as a starting point for Campus Conversations? If subcommittee reports aren’t the starting point, will subcommittee members feel their efforts were wasted? Where’s the balance point between meeting the Dec. 15 deadline for identifying goals and letting the process and final product be organic?
• There was consensus that the conversation should begin from a summary of themes and recommendations from recent planning documents, but all recent planning documents should be available online.
• Schedule Campus Conversations twice a day for seven days (Oct. 16-24) at locations across campus. They should not take place at the unit level.
• Ask directors to view the conversations as part of the workload.
• Look into hiring a graduate student to code transcripts from the conversations.
• We need to reassure people that their input will shape the final product, that the Steering Committee is just collecting the information.

Responses to Sept. 29 Follow-up Questions
• The President’s Planning Council will not review the Steering Committee’s work before it goes to President Norton.
• There wasn’t enough academic representation on the President’s Planning Council to have it guide the academic planning process.
• The Steering Committee does not have to present its work in the grid format referenced in the charge to the committee.