Growth and Development Committee Meeting
Oct. 11, 2012
AGENDA
1. Introductions
2. Approval
of Minutes - March 8, 2012
3. Academic
Year 2012-2013
a. Charge
of the Committee
b. Time,
Day and Frequency of meetings
c. SEC
topics for immediate attention
i. UITS
- anticipate establishment of a subcommittee
ii. KUALI
d. 2012-13
Priority List
4. Next
Meeting Agenda Items
5. Adjournment
Present: Rachel O’Neill, Min Lin, Robert Bird, Elizabeth
Jockusch, Tracy Borden, Elena Innes, Karen Bresciano, Abigail Costello, Pieter
Visscher, Anke Finger, Eric Schultz, Tim Hunter, Dana Wilder, Bryant Reed
1. The meeting began at 9:05 am with introductions.
2. Minutes of the March 8, 2012 meeting were approved,
3a. The charge of the committee was read:
This committee shall keep
under review the general changes, actual and prospective, of the University
over time and may recommend any desirable expressions of Senate opinion on
these matters. The committee may also provide on behalf of the Senate an
evaluation and review of specific issues and activities related to
institutional advancement.
Past practices of the committee were discussed, as well as ways
to be more proactive about monitoring and influencing developments within the
committee’s charge.
3b. Deferred to the end
3c. SEC has requested that the committee pay attention to three
items: UITS, Kuali and the UConn Foundation.
Bottleneck in code and code development, appears through
conversations across a broad sample of the university, raising the question of
whether support to produce an area of interaction across groups thinking about
or affected by this issue. This could be
accommodated within the UITS list.
Another issue was the need for a Recreation Center.
A third issue was international programs and the transition in
study abroad.
The student representative thinks that more transparency would
increase student knowledge and involvement, and suggests that gathering data
about what students want would be important.
Faculty echoed the concern about lack of transparency.
A final issue was parking.
Discussion about how to communicate with the broader university
community led to a consensus that establishing a blog would be a way to
increase visibility of the committee and receive feedback. Abigail Costello volunteered to set up the
blog.
Examples of actions taken by the University, for reasons that
were unclear to many observers, or appeared wasteful, were discussed.
Action items:
UITS: the
proposal was made to form a subcommittee.
There are a lot of changes ongoing in UITS (related in part to security,
stability, backup, authentication).
Nancy Bull will be invited to a future meeting to talk to the committee
about the challenges and issues faced by UITS.
Kuali: The
implementation of Kuali led to decreases in efficiency for many tasks as well
as significant shifts in effort (e.g., whose time is now required for
particular functions). The committee
agreed that it would like to bring in a team of individuals involved with or
affected by Kuali implementation to discuss some of the issues, and ways to
address them.
improved
interaction between the Senate and the Foundation (perhaps with a
representative from the Foundation appointed as an ex-officio member to the G
& D committee.
Rec. center
MEMBERS:
*Senate
member 2012/2013
