school of communication faculty meeting agenda
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School of Communication Faculty Meeting
Agenda
Locating us in Space and Time
The Sustainable Innovation Project
A changing School in a changing College
Questions and discussion
2010 SOC Study: (The Brodeur Report)
Innovation Agenda2010-2015
Stabilize/Enhance Faculty
Align Marketplace/
Students
Refine Brand
Realign Curriculum
EC Strategic Plan (Board of Trustees May 2011)
INITIATIVE IV
Strengthen the School of Communication
President Pelton’s InauguralCharge to the SOC
Review Propose Reimagine
Oct 2012: Rethinking Academic Structure
SOC Task Force (Cooke_Jackson, Grossman, Lieb, and Niwa)
Task force convened
Proposals solicited and developed
Learning occasions, school-wide meetings
Recommendations
Criteria for proposals:
Align with EC strategic priorities
Potential for drawing students
Respond to global comm
trends
Enhance EC brand in
communication
Three proposals:
A new major: CSCP
A research center: ILCE
A culture-building initiative
Advancing the ideas
Major Davis work; Major in
bus/mgt comm/arts
Research center college- wide process for developing
research centers
A culture-building initiative
pursued by chairs and through Davis
project
Sustainable Innovation
“If the SOC is to achieve the goals outlined in this report, we must put innovative thinking and practice at the core of everything that faculty, students, and staff do everyday.
The curriculum, institutional procedures and structures, reinforcement patterns, and culture itself must embrace innovation.”
Sustainable Innovation
“If our students are going to succeed in their post-Emerson careers, they must know what it means to innovate and how to do it.
This will only happen if the School fosters an environment of continuous innovation.”
(SOC report, 2010)
The Sustainable Innovation Project
Supported by a grant from
The Davis Educational Foundation
Sustainable Innovation Project
Three elements:
Deepening expertise in Information Technologies
Creating structures and alignments that promote innovation
Creating curricular processes that encourage innovation
Group 1
Eight faculty members
January – May 2014
Create a plan for realign programs and curricula in the SOC
Deepen expertise in emerging information technologies, media, and applications
Follow-up reporting and evaluating
Course equivalency plus summer stipend
Group 2
Four faculty members
June 2014
Deepen expertise in “agile methodologies”
Create a plan for curricular change processes
Follow-up reporting and evaluating
Summer stipend
Group 3
Eight faculty members
Fall – Winter 2014
Carry forward the work begun by Group 1
Engage SOC faculty in revising and adopting
Deepen expertise in emerging information technologies, media, and applications
Follow-up reporting and evaluating
Course equivalency plus stipend
Expected outcomes
A structure that promotes ongoing innovation
Substantive learning in information and computing technologies . . . .
That appears in courses, curricula, planning
Processes for ongoing, rapid adaptation of curricula
A deepened culture of collaboration
Towards SOC Programs that are
Rigorous
Differentiated and integrated
Drawing excellent students
Global
Innovative
Sustainable
Situating SOC work within the context of EC
Discussion time
Questions
Ideas
Challenges
Plans
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