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As passed at the June 3, 2020 faculty meeting
As passed at the June 3, 2020 faculty meeting
Greetings, All. All quarters are busy at the end, but this one seems especially so with the Big Bets work well underway. I’ll do my best to keep everything on this site updated.
Please find below two supplementary documents provided by Nancy Koppelman related to a proposed amendment focused on Schools, and another from Eirik Steinhoff, also regarding Schools.
Additionally, here is a supplemental document from Marja Eloheimo regarding amendment number six (see “Big Bets Amendments,” below) and one from Laura VerMeulen, also regarding Schools.
And, drum roll, please… the amendments we’ve received! Compiled in one document–thank you, Kevin Francis!
An update and some responses to FAQs we’ve received in the last week.
See you all at the Faculty Meeting on Wednesday!
Woah, woah, we have a draft proposal!
The proposal language itself is the left-hand document titled “New Academic Directions Model May 2020,” the right-hand document is the slideshow on the model presented in the Spring Week 8 Faculty Meeting.
Finally, the document below was created by breakout groups in the Week 8 Faculty Meeting and will be available to anyone for contribution until Wednesday, May 27. This link should be accessible (and editable) by anyone with an Evergreen login. Come on over and see what your colleagues are thinking, and add your own!
https://evergreen0-my.sharepoint.com/:p:/g/personal/graye_evergreen_edu/EUTTaD7JdIJAtiCEe717ZmMBBC6mXNfknJsIBaDYvJLA7A?e=8X00EE
The Coordinating Group convened once again on Monday, April 27 (week five); 22 people were in attendance.
In the first hour (of our two hour meeting), we reviewed the elements of a model (below) and, as a group, debriefed the week 4 faculty meeting. For access to the group notes that were generated from that debrief, click here (it will take you to a shared Word document in OneDrive).
In the second hour, we reviewed data from Hanover Research, from Evergreen’s Institutional Research, and from the Blue Sky data from Fall and Winter quarters to discuss potential curricular clusters of note (see below post for presentation of data). We then broke into small groups for discussion around curricular areas.
The Coordinating Group will convene again on Wednesday, May 13th to continue the work of reviewing and incorporating feedback into the draft model we have. Stay tuned!
The “Big Bets” work continues! If anything, it has accelerated in this national/global time of a shifting and changing higher ed landscape. In some ways, we just got a jump start on our COVID-19 planning?
Our latest meeting convened on Monday, April 20. We had 26 people in attendance and were able to cover the following topics:
Normally I would post pictures here, but I’m no longer in the habit of taking pictures in the virtual space! In lieu of pictures, I’ll give you more text to work with (sorry…).
The same crew (Kevin, Steven, Karen, with support from the rest of the Planning Team) will present at today’s Faculty Meeting (Wed, 4/22), and the Coordinating Group will convene again on Monday, April 27th.
Other behind-the-scenes happenings: model presentation to and feedback from senior leadership, the Student and Academic Life Leadership Team, the Campus Leadership Group (during week five). We are also brainstorming other ways of engaging our community in meaningful (remote) discussion.
Stay tuned!
The Coordinating Group met on Monday, April 6th for our inaugural virtual meeting! We had 20 participants and our goal was to recommend one or two models for SALLT and senior leadership during week three. Models will brought back to the Coordinating Group with comments from SALLT & senior leadership, and then given to Feasibility Group.
Please note for all content below, this was pulled from notes taken in real time and reflects conversation, but not necessarily any final decisions made.
A discussion about a potential regional workforce development pilot in response to the regional economic impact of COVID-19:
The Coordinating Group will meet again on Monday, April 20, 2020.
Thank you, all, for your continued engagement, great thinking, valuable input, and commitment to the Evergreen community!
For accurate and up-to-date information about COVID-19 and how it impacts Evergreen as a whole, please visit https://www.evergreen.edu/covid19
As we head into week one of spring quarter (beginning Thursday, April 2nd), we are still wrapping our heads around what the impact of COVID-19 might be on the “big bets” process. We know the timeline will shift and we are working to determine what that might look like on the ground. The legislative “ask” will change, certainly, and we are considering how we might bring “big bets”to bear on the increasing need for regional workforce retraining in light of COVID-19-related job loss in our area.
We will continue to offer updates as we have them, so please stay tuned.
In the meantime, the Coordinating Group had an initial remote meeting today. We had 26 people attend (awesome!) and we explored models put together by subcommittees over the last few weeks. Many thanks in particular to Coral Garey, Steven Hendricks, and Kevin Francis for their insight and effort.
Model A
Model C graphic
The Coordinating Group held a joint meeting with members of the Standing Committee on Curriculum to work on rapid prototype modeling for the “big bets” process on Wed, Feb 26th; 25 people attended.
Participants worked in small groups and were given different categories to work with, including student populations (based on Selingo’s student population models), “growth narratives” (below), and curricular ideas that came from the week 6 Faculty Meeting presentation.
*Apologies for the images being sideways! I’m working out what to do about this, but wanted to at least get the models to you all for now. Thanks for your patience! 🙂
The Coordinating Group met Monday, February 3rd; 23 people attended. Below are photos from the meeting.
We talked about how, because this initiative is coming from the Provost’s office, the process is overseeing Student and Academic Life–that’s our sphere of influence. We have partners in all areas of campus, and many representatives from other divisions are members of the Coordinating Group, and our focus for the work resides in Student and Academic Life (SAL).
One of the exercises we did was around model generation within constraints. The constraints given were to build curricular frameworks for these different potential student populations (below).
Kathleen Eamon, Karen Gaul, Laurie Meeker – 2.3.20 meeting
Thought experiment on how to serve specific students:
Hybrid online and low residency, high intensity… options for adult learners
Supposed to be creating new poem, but…
Transfers – are they Career starters? – on track, know where they want to go
Minoritized students – culturally relevant pedagogy and curriculum – across the curriculum;
Explore: Uncharted Territory: A Guide to Reimagining Higher Education from the d.school at Stanford