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Adopt a voluntary mid-semester assessment program in
which an outside evaluator meets with students to discuss the course and to provide
useful feedback to the instructor. (Michael Barresi, Julio Alves) SD9-1
Establish a Faculty Institute for Innovation and Leadership
to foster and support innovation in the curriculum, create research opportunities,
and supporting other experiments in excellence. (Faculty Council) SD9-2
Achieve and maintain competitive salaries for faculty. (Committee
on Faculty Compensation and Development) SD9-3
Establish an Emerging Scholars Lectureship (one-year
postdoctoral fellowship extendable to two years) aimed at increasing diversity of
faculty. (Common Ground Diversity Committee, Faculty Council) SD1-4,
SD9-4
Develop and fund specific initiatives to increase the
hiring and retention of faculty of color across departments and programs. (Common
Ground Diversity Committee) SD1-4
Enhance hiring and retention efforts for minority and
women faculty members.
- Build and sustain cross-departmental cohorts for new hires to enhance peer networking
and support.
- Structure incentives and opportunities for newly tenured faculty members to invest
in Smith through leadership seminars and other means.
- Educate and empower senior faculty members to be strong members and diversity
advocates within departments.
- Monitor and measure the implementation of recommendation about diversity more
frequently and systematically.
- Create a more cohesive cohort of Mendenhall and Mellon fellows and provide practical
job readiness development opportunities.
- Provide funds for search committee chairs to travel to national meetings of professional
organizations for under-represented groups to meet potential candidates, to increase
the visibility of Smith to those candidates, and to familiarize themselves with
fields of research in which under-represented scholars are working.
- Provide funding for new chairs and members of the Committee on Academic Priorities
to attend the annual Keeping Our Faculties conference at the University of Minnesota.
- Place greater emphasis on diversity in evaluating position requests, beginning
with the Committee on Academic Priorities review.
- Establish a category of Picker fellowships for curricular development focused
on course content about under-represented groups and for developing pedagogical
strategies to serve these learners more effectively.
- Host regional symposia for other top liberal arts colleges to develop and share
teaching strategies and curricular materials on each aspect of diversity: socioeconomic,
racial and ethnic, sexuality, and learning disabilities. (Martha Ackelsberg,
Naomi Miller, Kate Queeney, Susan Van Dyne) SD9-5
Develop student technology assistance program, matching
students with faculty in the area of their academic majors to collaborate on exploring
the use of technology to improve teaching and learning. (Tom Laughner) SD9-6
Establish Smith Digital Initiative to explore how emerging
technologies can be used by faculty and students to enhance teaching and learning. (Tom
Laughner) SD9-6
Establish a Virtual Learning Commons to provide students
and teachers with a digital environment that facilitates the creation, management,
discovery, and sharing of many modes of digital content that can be used for teaching,
learning, and research. (Tom Laughner, Joanne Cannon Carlson, Elise Lanzi,
Chris Loring) SD9-7
Develop incubator spaces where we can experiment with
the relationship between space, furniture, and technology. (Chris Loring,
Tom Laughner) SD9-8
Review the current decentralized model for Website development and maintenance as
part of the planning process, considering a move to a more centralized support model. (Herb
Nickles / Committee on Administrative Technology Systems) SD9-9
Establish administrative technology innovation fund to explore emerging technologies,
assessing their value prior to making long-term commitments to new technologies. (Herb
Nickles) SD9-9
Explore how other colleges and universities have developed
effective administrative reporting strategies within the Banner environment. (Richard
Myers / Committee on Administrative Technology Systems) SD9-10
Initiate a comprehensive study of the configuration
of learning spaces that encourage faculty-student interaction and student-student
interaction and collaboration. (Chris Loring, Tom Laughner) SD9-8
Create classroom spaces that are responsive to current
teaching and learning and incorporate flexibility of design to permit future innovation
and change. (Chris Loring, Tom Laughner) SD9-8
Explore opportunities for junior year using the Five
College Consortium, including speakers, social events, etc. (Margaret Bruzelius
/ Committee on the Junior Year Experience) SD1-2
Offer workshops for parents at orientation to provide
them with more information about what happens at Smith. Consider assigning
a staff member responsibility for coordinating current offerings and information
for parents. (Sid Dalby) SD7-1
Create a meeting, workshop, and retreat space in the
former living room of the Lyman estate for use by the college community. (Martha
Lees) SD6-13
Implement landscape plan for Fort Hill designed by Smith students in 2006. (Martha
Lees) SD6-13
Provide enhanced training for managers on the availability
of data in their areas, reporting strategies that are planning-related as well as
operational, and how to translate management questions into report requests and analysis. (Richard
Myers / Committee on Administrative Technology Systems) SD9-10
Make more and better use of comparative information
collected through COFHE and other relationships, including possible creation of briefing
books of most relevant and provocative information for senior administrators, trustees,
and selected committees. (Richard Myers) SD9-10
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