Academic Task Force - Graduate Reform: Discipline Evolution
Revised Recommendations
(May 12, 2006)
Mission
To create a strategic plan for world-class graduate programs and education with particular emphasis on emerging and evolving disciplines. The University should strive to be a national and international model for the strength, breadth, and especially the interdisciplinary scope of its graduate programs.
Deliverables
- Recommendations that identify how to overcome barriers, both structural and cultural, to the success of interdisciplinary research, teaching, and study.
- Recommendations regarding how to leverage the strengths and comparative advantages in the University’s graduate programs, with an aim of fostering interdisciplinary research and teaching.
- Recommendations as to how the University can best leverage its current and potential academic advantages especially in new and evolving disciplines.
- Recommendations regarding mechanisms to insure the regular and continuing evaluation of disciplines in order to promote the timely development, reconfiguration, and discontinuation of graduate offerings as academic strengths, interests, and societal needs and demands evolve.
- Recommendations regarding whether and under what circumstances the University should consider offering applied doctorates.
Report due: May 1, 2006
 Task force charge letter from E. Thomas Sullivan, Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost
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Task Force Cochairs
- Shirley Garner, Assoc Dean, Graduate School and Professor of English Lang/Lit, CLA
- Steve Ekker, Assoc Professor, Genetics, Cell Biol/Dev Med, CBS
Task Force Members
Mary Louise Fellows
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Professor, Law |
Ann Forsyth
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Program Director, Metropolitan Design Center, CALA |
Karin Kettenring
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Graduate student, Horticultural Science, CBS |
Wendy Pradt Lougee
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University Librarian, University Libraries
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Jean Montgomery
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Associate Professor, Theatre Arts & Dance, CLA |
Yvette Perry
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Graduate student, Family Social Science, CHE |
| Jeff Roberts |
Professor, Chemistry, IT |
| V.V. Chari |
Professor, Economics, CLA |
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