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Minutes - Department of Linguistics Meeting, Oct 18, 2017

October 18

Linguistics (7 people)

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:  Allocation of SCH to departments militates against team teaching which is a wonderful opportunity for the exchange of ideas and for our students.

Comment:  Need course releases to develop new kinds of courses.

Comment:  Institutes (ICS in particular) are great locations for interdisciplinary education

Comment:  Collaboration takes time.

Comment:  We need to heal the divisions between departments and institutes.

Comment:  Institute research faculty should be allowed to do more teaching

Comment:  We need to consider the role of centers in interdisciplinary work.

Comment:  We need to look at certificates in interdisciplinary education.

Comment:  There needs to be funding to support grass roots interdisciplinary education initiatives

Comment:  The process for getting innovative degrees through faculty curriculum committees is too cumbersome.

Comment:  Solve the problems for interdisciplinary PhDs; we need a template for interdisciplinary PhDs.