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Academic Task Force - College Design: GC/CEHD

Mission

To create a new college that would build on the strengths of the General College and the College of Education and Human Development (and the departments Family Social Science and Social Work) in order to become a national model for teaching, learning and human development, consistent with the University’s goal to become one of the top three public research universities in the world.

Deliverables

• Recommendations regarding the optimal design, structure, and organization of the new college.
• Recommendations regarding a strategy for the new college that would put it in the forefront of the University’s potential to become one of the premier research institutions in the world dedicated to educational research and teaching, including research, teaching, and advising on developmental education across academic departments. 
• 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 regarding a vision for the new college that would attract and inspire world-class faculty and staff, consistent with the University’s goal to become one of the top three public research universities in the world.
• Recommendations regarding proposed connections to the other units on campus to ensure higher rates of retention and timely graduation of students formally enrolled in the General College while they transition into various academic colleges and programs across the campus.
• 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.
• Recommendations regarding the name and mission of the new department devoted to developmental education (formerly General College).

Report due: December 10, 2005

Task force charge letter from E. Thomas Sullivan, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost

Task Force Cochairs Robert Serfass, Assoc Dean for Curriculum, Professor Kinesiology, CEHD Laura Coffin Koch, Assoc Vice Provost, First Year Programs and Morse Distinguished Teaching Professor of Mathematics, SVPP/GC Task Force Members Name Position, Department, College Victor Collins Director, MLK Program, CLA Megan Gunnar Professor, Institute of Child Development, CEHD Walt Jacobs Associate Professor, Social Sciences, GC Amy Lee Associate Professor, Writing and Composition, GC Sharon Cormany Ornelas Professional Practice School Coordinator, Mpls Patrick Henry HS James Parente Professor, German, Scandinavian and Dutch, CLA John Romano Professor, Ed Psych, CEHD Leah Woodstrom Undergraduate student, CCE

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