University Executive Seminar
Friday-Sunday, August 1-3
The Silvertree Hotel Eldorado Room

SAC Executive Seminar Action Agenda Items

COMMUNICATIONS

• Share NSF info
• Communicate research outcomes
• Converse with peers about program and possible actions for us.
• Check out web sites.
• Take the general ideas, topics, areas of discussion, back to our campus roundtable for them to discuss.
• Distribute some of the materials to colleagues.
• Share our "conclusions" about learning & technology with my faculty -- gather feedback, amend "conclusions" as needed.
• Discuss NSF initiatives
• Personally crusade for extending the vision and stake holding to all levels, particularly among faculty. Rhetoric at the highest levels only wont feed the Bulldog.
• High level action: better communicate the big picture to the admin to improve commitment to the tech infrastructure.
• Participate in comm. efforts to spread info about research activities to understand faculty needs
• Participate in discussions to advance learner centered instructions
• Engage our technology -- Existing forum on technology and pedagogy in a discussion of the results/ideas/questions from this seminar.
• Share info with our teaching & learning w/ technology roundtable. Attempt to incorporate in our action item list.
• Be more forceful in settting technology expectations when new initiatives are proposed
• Use ideas on Research & Learning (4 aspects) as we review internal funding of "research" projects; and as topic of a Roundtable on T&L.
• Share specific conference ideas with President:
  1) discuss 4 recommendations
  2) discuss 3 questions
  as developing new framework for moving ahead
• Possibly setup seminars with faculty utilizing the technology as a tool (example would be conversations in the disciplines utilizing compressed video)
• Better market the current infrastructure to faculty and its possible uses
• System-wide workgroup to address issues related to educational technology
• Initiate a student input mechanism to validate our thoughts on long- term technology ideology
• Launch a discussion with key faculty concerning how we might improve our research content as a part of undergraduate instruction. Where can IT help? What are the possibilities of the research functions?
• Create a mechanism for ongoing dialogue on campus-roundtable, councils, etc.
• Work with university research council to determine what they feel are their technology needs beyond the current delivery infrastructure
• Work with college computing committees to determine what their technology needs beyond the current infrastructure and the inclusion of research in undergraduate instruction.
• Work with the library on the current and future of E-publications. The cataloging and archival of these to make them more main stream for any technical society.

  STRATEGIC PLANNING

• Review strategic plans in place
• Multi-level: Launch strategic planning effort that has been waiting in the wings.
• Explore feasibility/capability of an institutional and national S.P for Research..
• Contrive to promote the ideas & action steps in our technology strategic plan because after hearing all the ideas I realize we are right on track.
• Explore (research) existing strategic planning documents.
• Intensify & broaden some IT planning activities.
• Revisit IT plan to:
  1) assure ongoing participation,br> 2) firm up basic principles and create an appropriate decision ?????
  Try to structure a coherent and comprehensive Council for Ed Tech Unify support and academic areas, i.e., focusing both on learning outcomes
• Take a fresh look at our strategic plan with an eye to making it more of a process than a document
• Take back what I learned to improve our upcoming strategic planning process.
• SP for Research --- consider whether we should do something about this?
• Use information on IT issues in University to:
  1) influence current Strategic IT planning projects
  2) select/hire a new VP IT
  3) influence Univ research S.P. toward expanded and more deliberate infusion into undergraduate education.
  
• As someone new to the University, discover existing academic planning efforts supportable by technology
• Continue efforts to focus attention on sharpening institutional strategic planning process (more deliberate consideration of possible futures.)
• Strengthen the emphases on strategic planning and consensus building

  INTEGRATION

• Explore under-grads in research opportunities in existing environment
• We currently are re-examining how our overhead dollars are being used to support the research enterprise on campus -- It will be useful to infuse into the discussion how these $ can be used to support teaching since se are moving toward integrating teaching and research.

  INFRASTRUCTURE

• Baseline for infrastructure
• Re-establish the primacy of completing the "baseline" program and communicate this principle to the community

  RESEARCH/TEACHING OPPORTUNITIES

• Encourage more explicit support of research on campus by central IS organization
• Increase how our office (Academic Affairs) acts as a facilitator for collaborative research.
• Promote and get faculty more engaged in some of the new NSF initiatives that deal with integration of teaching and research.
• Develop a map of instructional technology resources available across the campuses, publish it, try to negotiate access to those for faculty
• Engage in dialogues with natural science division faculty on role of research, NSF plans, need for research PR.
• Focus on research for the masses and work to develop a pilot project to explore this.
• Encourage the teaching and pedagogy committee to create a framework for instructional technology application on campus
• Reconsider role of technology and teaching -- research relationship
• Encourage and support demonstration projects and experimentation -- especially connecting R&L

  LEADERSHIP

• Continue to remind the Chancellor & Provost how important leadership is in moving technology agendas that support our strategic plan forward

  PARTNERSHIPS

• Monitor closely the outcome of the CSU partnering effort and try to have the CCS follow their model.
• Make certain that our potential corporate sponsors understand the value we can offer in a partnership.
• Partnership strategies -- Cal SATE IDEA
• Look for partnership opportunities with other institutions, agencies, industry

• MEASUREMENT/ASSESSMENT
• Encourage our IT group to focus more on measurement of progress on well defined objectives.
• Access IT staff skills to encourage/leverage the learning-research linkage
• Stress measures to improve accountability in the IT area
• How can I integrate information derived from every technological interaction with a student to better serve that student regardless of the context whatever that interaction is administrative, instructional, research, or whatever?

  PRINCIPLE DEVELOPMENT

• Develop a "Universal" Principles/Developments list for local awareness, debate, and possible acceptance. Deal with the universal problem of parochialism of issues & capacity for solution.
• Work on principles for IT to help the decision process

  I.T. COUNCIL/FORUM

• Recommend a dialogue group of faculty be crated to address research issues discussed. Include research office representation.
• Establish a council for IT
• Re-activate a long-idle technology interest group & ask members to work with me on establishing SP & guiding principles
• Follow-up on "Education Technologies Council" at MIT ("We have an informal one but more formal & higher visibility might be good.")
• Revitalize Teaching Learning Technology roundtable

  MISCELLANOUS

• IT get involved in initiating and participating in some of the large action initiatives proposed such as -- Best Practices/Case Study identification project for Technology -- Research and teaching -- Humbolt 3 project.
• Review documentation from meeting that has general application and unique application to UO.
  A. Separate, isolated actions
  B. Assimilate questions/processes/solutions for local employment
• Line Level: 1) announce some org changes 2. collect some specific data 3. launch specific short term actions
• Buy a pith helmet
• Pick up an adjunct position to regain my "association" with teaching/learning process.
• Follow-up on REU program at NSF
• Look for "sticky applications"
• Intellectual assets/Publishing/Univ as pub and owner issues toward actions:
  Investigate changing attitudes and how info policy can change institutional intellectual asset.