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Minutes Dec 15, 2010

Minutes from December 15, 2010 Executive Committee meeting

submitted by John Rueter

All present (Kagan, George, Fountain, Crammond, Harvey, Rueter)

Agenda

  • outcomes
    • actions

1. Vote on affiliation of doctoral program faculty

  • Voted to affiliate Jeremy Spoon (Anthropology) and Robert Costanza (ISS) as PhD affiliated members with approval to be primary PhD advisors.
  • Voted to affiliate Duer as PhD program faculty.
    • John will follow up with Anthropology and Grad School about possibility of being a primary PhD advisor.

2. Planning

  • John presented the method for strategic planning process.
  • Includes: budget, resources, faculty effort and other aspects
  • partitions: resources, internal operations, fiscal and stakeholder outcomes and mission
  • identifies specific objectives lumped into initiatives (such as we already have)
  • overall strategy ties these together
  • requires - and this was the pitch - some effort by everybody, buy in to the faculty and staff level, and engagement in the initiaties
  • this is a risk of effort that could be wasted but also that it could pay off big
  • the executive committee agreed that this is a worthy project and that they would be supportive and engaged
    • John will present about a 10 page explanation of the method with cool graphics

3. Grad application update

  • we have inquiries and applications
  • the Joint Admission Committee essentially left us with our minimum requirements for our PhD to be the same as the university's
  • applications are a key part of building our PhD program
    • John will try to keep the dashboard current for this process, you can see this from a link on the ESR PhD page

4. Discussion of the name for the PhD

  • reviewed the proposed process for picking a new name
  • the executive committee is recommending the name "Earth, Environment, Society"
    • this name will be forwarded to all faculty for comment
    • John will vet it with Dean's office and Grad School
  • then the process will send it to the curriculum committee and then for ratification
  • after that we will have to submit the proposal through formal channels

5. Discussion of the process to propose new space/building

  • Nathan Corser from IDC joined us to provide background
  • We need to decide on our key criteria and details
    • John will summarize those and send out to the Exec Com
  • Will find funding to get a "bank book" created for our concepts
    • it is appropriate for everyone to start mentioning this