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Final Documents
Meeting Schedule
Thursday March 6 - 1:30-3:30 PM - Slaughter Hall 2220
UPDATE: Friday March 14 - 1-3 PM Wednesday March 12 - 3-5 PM - Slaughter Hall 2120
Friday March 21 - 9-11 AM - Slaughter Hall 2120
Monday March 31 - 2-4 PM – Slaughter Hall 2120
Friday April 11 - 10 AM -12 PM – Sustainability Institute 2140
Monday April 14 - 10 AM -12 PM – Sustainability Institute 2140
Monday April 21 - 10 AM - 12 PM – Slaughter Hall 2120 – Sustainability Institute 2140
Models of Interdisciplinary Research
Brown University Open Graduate Education
Duke University Interdisciplinary Studies
Northwestern University Research Centers
University at Buffalo Strategic Strengths
Key Dates
March 17-19 Progress-to-date shared with Steering Committee & other TF
March 20 Progress shared with President's Roundtable
April 10-11 Co-chairs to make short progress reports to trustee core committees
April 28 Goals/Strategies templates due to Steering Committee
May 12 Final Report due to Steering Committee (Goals & Strategies linked to Rationales 1
May 13-June 15 Steering Committee synthesizes reports and community comments
July 10-11 July Trustee meeting focuses on emerging plan
September 8-22 Community opportunity for comment on draft plan
Sept. 22-Oct. 13 Strategic Plan finalized by Steering Committee
October 13-31 Final found of community discussion
November 13-14 Trustees approve plan
Committee Files
Research and Commercialization
Patenting research does not pay off for most universities (NY Times)
Institutional Value
For Weds 3/12 meeting: Defining Institutional Value in the Face of Disruption - See particularly page 3, re: creating unique institutional value
and one of the cited examples: Arizona State's New American University concept - defining attributes
Task Force Members
Research and Graduate Education | |||
Name | Home | Department | |
Austin, Bruce | AA | RIT Press | |
Babbitt, Callie * | GIS | Faculty | |
Bond, David ** | AA | SRS | |
Campanelli, Manuela | COS | Faculty | |
Ettlie, John | SCB | Faculty | |
Flores, Hector | Dean | Graduate Studies | |
Hanson, Vicki * | GCCIS | Faculty | |
Hauser, Peter | NTID | Faculty | |
Herbert, Andy | COLA | Faculty | |
Hittinger, Eric | COLA | Faculty | |
Hudson, Andre | COS | Faculty | |
Kastner, Joel | COS | Faculty | |
Kronfeld, Elizabeth | CIAS | Faculty | |
Lambkin-Kennard, Kathi | KGCOE | Faculty | |
Miller, Tandra | DAR | Alumni Relations | |
Palmer, Harvey | KGCOE | Dean | |
Purushotham, Puru | Roundtable |
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Sagar, Hrushikesh | Student Government | Graduate Student | |
Santoru, Jen | COS | Staff | |
Schneider, Nicholas | AABOD | ||
Sears, Andrew | GCCIS | Dean | |
Shi, Pengcheng | GCCIS | Faculty | |
Smith, Meredith ** | CGR | Ass. VP | |
Trueheart, Harry ** | Trustee |
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Underhill, Linda | CAST | Faculty | |
Watters, Jim | F & A | VP | |