Joint Board Academic Affairs Committee, December 1, 2005, 2005

Joint Board Academic Affairs Committee, December 1, 2005 Discussion of Academic Funding: Does the academic budget reflect our priorities, aspirations and commitment to excellence? Do we have dashboard indicators? What do we want/need to measure? Core Curriculum: How do we define Core Curriculum? How does the proposal compare with the current Core Curriculum? What makes it distinctive? How does it measure up regarding Critical Thinking, Communication, Global Awareness, Values? What about student perspective? Academic Excellence: How do we define Academic Excellence? What are the characteristics? How do we track it/determine it? How do we rate the elements of our academic Core, Disciplines, Academic Centers, Signature Programs?) How do we compare to our peers?

December 1, 2005: Joint Meeting of the Academic Affairs and the Coordinate Finance Committee: on Financial Issues of Academic Affairs.