With Interim Provost Greg Woodward, I would like to announce a year-opening Faculty Convocation to be held on Thursday, August 19, from 2:30 to 3:45 p.m. in Textor 102. All faculty are invited.
The purpose of the Faculty Convocation will be to discuss our plan this coming year to work on an academic vision that will guide the development of IC for the next decade. After years of forming committees, holding listening sessions, conducting studies, preparing white papers, trying out pilot programs, and so on and so forth and etc., it is time for the development of a focused plan of action (to be followed by action itself!). Over the next decade, Ithaca College will center its energies and resources on our academic mission, with an eye to creating educational experiences that take full advantage of our strengths and potential as a residential comprehensive college. Ithaca College is today in a very good position, but far from being cause for complacency that is exactly what makes it possible for us to leap to another level.
This will, in short, be a highly consequential year. One of our challenges along the way will be to further increase the level of communication and collaboration between faculty and the academic administration. This will also be a project for the year ahead.
You will also see announcements of an All-College Meeting to be held on the morning of August 19. Formerly called the All-College Staff Meeting, last year we opened this meeting to faculty as well because the information presented there is of interest to everyone. The All-College Meeting will focus primarily on our financial and enrollment situation (retrospectively and prospectively). The Faculty Convocation will center on the academic planning process theat we must engage in the year ahead in order to end the year with a plan that will guide our academic development for the decade to come. In short, there will be very little overlap in content between the two meetings. I would urge you, if you can, to attend both.
Please address any questions either to Greg Woodward or to me. I hope to see you at the Faculty Convocation, and hope the remainder of your summer is pleasant and productive.
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