There was a collaborative leadership workshop by SUNI and a trustee from California. The recommendation from that workshop was to develop a good relationship with the administration and talk to them in the good times and the bad times. If you communicate in the good times and get them to listen, they will then see you through the bad times. There was some discussion regarding Faculty reward for service. Some discussion regarding high amounts of student to student interaction and student to faculty interaction.
Rapid feedback is important.
There were some demonstrations of web based instruction. One demonstration involved Spanish 101 with students solving a murder mystery by role playing and doing all the activities in the language. There was an academic plan for the virtual university developed through all the campus faculty Senates. This project involved granting the trustees an honorary baccalaureate degree. Dr. Bower distributed to several individuals the Competencies of Math in Entering Freshman document from the conference and sugggested UAH may want to look at developing something like this.