TUESDAY 1/5/16

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ANNOUNCEMENTS

Message from the President: seeking nominations for study group

Our community exercise to establish priorities for 2016-18 identified several important areas for study and action. In category two, "Develop a comprehensive plan for achieving and maintaining maximum fiscal strength," the first priority is to "Establish workforce and program ratios and implement a plan to meet them."

To achieve this priority, we are forming a study group to be led by the Vice President for Academic Affairs with the help of the Vice President for Finance and Administration. Their task will be to review the workforce and program ratio goals identified by Task Group 150 and to make recommendations to the President for achieving fiscally sustainable levels of staffing across the College. The study group's work is to be completed by the end of the 2016 spring semester. 

This group will coordinate with both the College Resource Council and the Academic Planning Committee during the process. Their work will also be discussed by the academic department heads and the Cabinet.

We are asking for nominations of faculty and exempt and non-exempt staff to serve on this study group. Please send nominations to Janine Brandt in the Dean's Office by Jan. 12. The committee will begin their work in early February. It is anticipated that meetings will occur every two weeks during the spring semester.

COLLEGE OPERATIONS

Reading group Jan. 15 

The Dean's Office is pleased to sponsor a reading group for the book "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking" by Susan Cain. Professors Joe Breitenstein and Paul Gardner will help lead a discussion of the book from 3-5 p.m. Friday, Jan. 15, in Mott Room in Dahl Centennial Union. The author explores introversion through personal experiences, psychological research and brain chemistry. In her enjoyable and highly readable narrative, Cain seeks to find ways for introverts and extroverts to better understand one another--and for introverts to understand their own contradictions (like the ability to act like extroverts in certain situations). For both introverts and extroverts alike. Copies of the book may be picked up in the Dean's Office after registration. Register online.