Academic Task Force - College Design: CALA/CHE
Revised Recommendations
(Feb. 10, 2006)
Mission
To create a plan for a new, nationally distinctive, multidisciplinary college of design incorporating the Departments of Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Design, Housing, and Apparel, and associated centers. The new college would aspire to be an international and national leader in multidisciplinary research, creative production, teaching, and public engagement in a wide variety of design-related fields.
Deliverables
- Recommendations regarding the optimal design, structure, and organization of the new college.
- Recommendations regarding a strategy for enhancing the new college’s prospects of becoming a widely recognized leader in design, contributing to the University’s potential to take its place as one of the top three public research universities in the world. The strategy should bring the intellectual and disciplinary diversity of the University, currently dispersed across multiple colleges, to bear on all aspects of design.
- Recommendations regarding existing strengths and opportunities and the potential for optimizing new collaborations and partnerships with other academic units outside the newly formed college.
- Recommendations regarding areas of strength and comparative advantage, including areas that should be targeted for additional investment, consistent with the University’s goal to become one of the top three public research universities in the world.
- Recommendations on how the new college can be a model for the promotion of active public engagement.
- Recommendations regarding the name and mission of the new college.
Report due: December 10, 2005
 Task force charge letter from E. Thomas Sullivan, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost
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Task Forces Cochairs
- Katherine Solomonson, Associate Professor, Architecture, CALA
- Becky Yust, Professor and Head, DHA, CHE
Task Forces Members
| Lynn Enger |
Graduate student, Landscape Architecture, CALA |
| Arthur Erdman |
Professor, Mechanical Eng, IT |
| Rebecca Krinke |
Associate Professor, Landscape Architecture, CALA |
| Karen LaBat |
Professor, Design, Housing and Apparel, CHE
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| Lance LaVine |
Professor, Architecture, CALA |
| Tom Meyer |
President, Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle, Ltd. |
| Kristen Paulsen |
Adjunct Instructor, Architecture, CALA |
| Terry Rafferty |
Director of Admissions and Recruitment, Architecture, CALA |
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Footnote
Administrative Structure and College Design task forces to coordinate with one another. |
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