Budgets:
- We have a meeting this Friday with the COAS folks to discuss budget issues.
- We're waiting on department budget sheets from Business and Finance.
When we get those, we will meet with the departmental budget people so that they and the chairs can start figuring out what's right and what's wrong on the sheets.
Scheduling: We need to figure out how shared rooms will be scheduled.
- Some people have suggested a centralized solution, but that makes others nervous.
- What do you think?
Space: Where do we put the fannies of the new deans and staff?
- The COAS office seems big enough to split in two, but not in three.
College names: the faculty in each college need to select a name for it.
Are they going to hire new staff members for the new colleges? Will this be included in the task force's formal recommendation?
ReplyDeleteIf a "School of the Arts" is formed, will they have a set of offices for the "School" similar to that provided to each college? Will this also be staffed with a budget person, again similar to the colleges, and receptionist (at least)?
I am not sure where this comment might go, so I'll put it here: Has the committee discussed the interdisciplinary programs, in particular the three majors (Env. Science, Env. Studies, and Global Studies)? Where will these fit? To whom will coordinators report? Will there be any budgets for them? Etc.
ReplyDeleteWe have discussed the interdisciplinary programs, but just to add them to our to-do list. We welcome any suggestions.
ReplyDeletePerhaps we could add "Staffing". There has been a lot of lip service given to the staff needs of each college, but this has not been written in the formal recommendation or committed to the Internet on the various web spots. How many people are we hiring? What is the timeline for hiring them? If they aren't hired by January 1st, to whom will the existing staff members in the dean's office report as they can't report to all three new deans?
ReplyDeleteIf jobs for the current staff are going to be combined/tweaked/changed, doesn't a Mercer classification have to be done? And won't that affect budget? (Not to mention a hiring timeline, etc.)
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