Project Plan (DRAFT)

Project Name: Project Manager: Susan Bourque, Provost

Foundational Commitment:
Integrate Teaching and
Scholarship

Project Description
Foster the integration of teaching and scholarship through enhanced pedagogical resources and more effective research support.
Benefits

Project Implementation Team Members

Name Role
Susan Bourque, Provost Project Manager
Kevin Shea, Associate Professor, Chemistry
Susan Etheredge, Assoc Prof, Educ; Director FYS
Kevin Shea, Assoc Prof, Chemistry
Danielle Carr Ramdath, Assoc Dean of Faculty
Julio Alves, Dir, Jacobson Center for Writing &
Learning

Objectives (What are we trying to achieve?) Status

(Metrics) Programs/Projects/Tactics to Achieve
(Study, Planning, Execution, Completed,
(Specific, Measurable Achievable, Relevant, Time Bound) Objectives Assessment)
Support Teaching, Innovation and Exchange  Enhance Information Literacy Program  Execution
 Identify point of responsibility for Teaching,  Institute a mid-term assessment  Execution
Innovation and Exchange  Continue with Teaching Arts Luncheons  Execution
 # of Teaching Arts Luncheons held

Coordinate various efforts on campus to support  Create taskforce on pedagogical innovation  Completed
teaching  Taskforce from Teaching Learning Center reports and  Spring 2009
 Receive first taskforce report proposals to CMP and CAP

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Greater coordination of the First Year experience
 Name a director of First Year Seminars
 Expand First Year Seminars (using Capacities
metrics)
 Regularize meetings among FYS instructors
 Assess effectiveness of FYS program and
relationship to Capacities
Improve research support (See Research, Inquiry,
Discovery initiative when available)
(Risks are things that MAY happen; Issues are things that are already happening)
Confidential
 Name director of First Year Seminars  Completed (Susan Etheredge, Educ)
 Coordination between First Year Seminars and First Year  Planning
Committee (by director of FYS)
 Director assessment of efficacy of FYS Program  Planning
 Create Research, Inquiry & Discovery working group and  Execution; proposal received 4/14/08
receive final proposal
 Improve the office dealing with sponsored research  Execution
 Regularize position – Sponsored Research Administrator  Execution: ½ time secure; budget req
 e-Procurement system – greater ease of grant processing  Planning – budget requested
 Additional ½ time support  Execution (soft dollars)
Risks/Issues
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