Today's all day retreat for the College of Education started out with introductions- but with a twist. In groups, we spent a minute introducing each other, and then we introduced the person on the left in our groups. Lots of interesting connections: how many people were on Guam, parallels in lives, dog people vs. cat people and the pride of family.
The new provost, Mike Driscoll, spoke with us. He advocated that we strategically choosing what we do. We can and must make careful choices of what we do to improve our University and College. He responded to questions from the college.
In response to a question, he replied that he is interested in the challenge distance education. The provost stated that faculty need to be doing the work that they were hired to do. This can be a black hole for money, though. I wonder what this means university-wide and what kinds of distance education support the university will provide. The second principle that he stressed is that distance education is a critical need for the state of Alaska. We must reach students that need to be reached through technology. I'd like to see more vision and clear statement of the support provided for distance education by the university.
When it came time for me to present with Brian, I started out by asking about what people remembered from last year about our IT. Turns out that no one really remembered the status of IT in the college a year ago. I guess that's good... the file server migration, web server migration, server room cleanout, and lab upgrade are all done and not in people's consciousness.
Our dog and pony on Distance Education went ok. There is some confusion about what Jack, Briand and I will do and what other resources are available on campus
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