Different Paths to Full Professor at Ohio State University
 At Ohio State University, president E. Gordon Gee, and many faculty, want to rewrite the rules for tenure to essentially allow a dual track: Those who excel at research and those who excel at teaching. Scott Jaschik outlines the concept in Inside Higher Ed (lots of interesting comments): [T]he key missing element to giving teaching and service a fair shot at equal consideration in promotions to full professor is measurement of impact, which is easier for research. He said that if good criteria could be developed, not only would teaching-related activities be rewarded, but so would research that has practical use. "Measuring impact is always difficult, particularly when it comes to teaching and service," he said. "But it can be done if we focus on the significance of these activities as it extends beyond our own institution -- just as we expect such broad effects with traditional scholarship. Thus, indicators of impact on other institutions, recognition by professional associations, broad adoption of teaching materials (textbooks, software, etc.) by other institutions, evidence of effects on policy formulation and so on -- all these are appropriate independent indicators of effectiveness."
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A Call to Save an Unusual Fairgrounds Building, University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Link to full item: http://chronicle.com/blogPost/A-Call-to-Save-an-Unusual/21468/Text below is quoted from Scott Carlson at the Chonicle's Buildings &
Grounds Blog. The University of Nebraska at Lincoln is giving people an opportunity
to propose uses for its Industrial Arts Building, a 97-year-old
structure on the old state fairgrounds that preservationist fear will
be demolished. The university says that if suitable plans for the
building are not submitted before July 1, the building will indeed be
razed. The university acquired the old fairgrounds last month to build
a research park. **** The preservationists have set up a Facebook page and a Web site, where
they go into detail: "The building is an exposition-type structure
with an impressive span of steel arches and beams. It was built with a
zero-carbon footprint and utilized natural light through skylights and
Palladian windows and natural heating and cooling through a series of
open windows and dormers. The interior structure of the building is
unique in Nebraska.
Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring: Labels: campus heritage, campus planning, facilities planning, historic, N-C, preservation
U Iowa Integrated Academic & Budgeting Planning Task Forces Reports
In early 2009 Iowa provost, Wallace D. Loh, formed six task forces to examine ways to shape the future of the academic programs at the university, in relation so the various external forces affecting university campuses. The final reports of each task force are now available as PDF. This web page lists the task forces and has links to their charge, membership, and reports plus appendices. Many SCUPers will enjoy learning from this work. The task forces were: - Task Force in Strategic Budgeting
- Task Force on Undergraduate Education and Success
- Task Force on Graduate Education: Selective Excellence
- Task Force on Research and Creative excellence
- Task force on Internationalization and Diversity
- Task Force on Public Outreach and Civic Engagement
Audrey Williams June has this brief article about the graduate education task force's report in T he Chronicle of Higher Education.
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New Book, Reinventing Brantford: A University Comes Downtown
Reinventing Brantford: A University Comes Downtown, is the story of a small North American town decaying and dying in the post-industrial revolution age, and how that downtown was reinvigorated by the creation of a downtown Brantford campus of Wilfred Leurier University. The introduction begins: On June 7, 2008, the City of Brantford celebrated the death of its downtown. The funeral featured brightly coloured carriages, bicycles, and costumes . . . [R]epresentatives of the city, a new university campus, the arts community, and downtown churches blessed, eulogized, and toasted the old downtown. In a daring move the health authorities had approved the toast featuring untreated water taken from the Grand River two blocks away . . . The funeral celebrated the death, but also the rebirth of downtown Brantford. If you purchase this book by following any link on this page, SCUP will receive a small percentage of your purchase price, which is not increased by doing so.
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At Michigan, Integrated Planning Ferries Student Veterans Through Launch of new GI Bill
At the University of Michigan, top administrators did some environmental scanning and spotted the potential for major problems in implementing the new GI Bill for veterans. So they engaged in cross-departmental, integrated planning and pulled off a very successful program: “I knew we would rise to the occasion,” says Lester Monts, senior vice provost for academic affairs. “Our student veterans earned these benefits, and university staff make sure our students are the priority.”
Initial notification of the new benefits program arrived from the Department of Veterans Affairs in January 2009. Students could begin to apply in May; but the VA’s procedural details were not available until June.
“We could see the potential for a serious logjam,” said Assistant University Registrar Christine Bedz. “With so little lead time, we were concerned about the adverse impact on our students if VA disbursements were delayed. We were determined to make our students’ experience seamless.”
With full appreciation of the operational complexity of the emerging program — including the related Yellow Ribbon tuition supplement, www.ur.umich.edu/0809/Jul27_09/17.php — staff from the Registrar, ONSP, Information and Technology Services, the offices of financial aid, student financial services and the Stephen M. Ross School of Business mapped out what they thought the new system would require.
They hit the bull’s-eye, producing a new process that provided common rules and procedures and, ultimately, a safe harbor for U-M’s student veterans.
Regional SCUP Events! Enjoy the F2F company of your colleagues and peers at one of three SCUP regional conferences this spring: Labels: financial aid, GI Bill, integrated planning, N-C, student services planning, university of michigan, veterans
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