Vision Transition Steering Team Date : Tuesday, January 17, 2012 Location : President’s Boardroom - Trafalgar Chair: Jeff Zabudsky Attendees: Mary Preece, Ian Marley, Cathi Berge, Rob Till, Andre Plante, Jocelyn Piercy, Ronni Rosenberg, Sylvia Teichtmeister, Bill Holmes, Melanie Spence-Ariemma, Mike Collins, Has Malik, Karen Gordon, Sandy McKean, Lisa Piccolo Regrets: Minutes By: S Shaver Item By Key notes Action/Responsibility/Timeline Welcome Jeff Zabudsky Approval of Agenda Jeff Zabudsky One agenda item added - Moved by Steven Parfeniuk and seconded by Andre Plante that the Agenda with one addition be approved. Carried. Review of November 1st meeting minutes Jeff Zabudsky Confirmed that research support through the Sheridan librarian staff has been arranged. List shared with the group. The role of this team in the decision making around the allocation of the funds available to support the work of the vision will be added as a future agenda item. President’s Update Jeff zabudsky Harvey Weingarden – CEO of HEQCO – visiting here Jan 30. Proponent of the need for differentiation, in particular within University field. Jeff has updated him on our Vision. During Harvey’s visit to Sheridan he would like to introduce others here at Sheridan, to familiarize him with the aspects of Sheridan that help to make it clear that there is rationale for why Sheridan should be the one to make this move. highlight the lack of Business programs available to students. degree offerings that tie to industry areas that are experiencing growth. Degree cluster discussion, and issue of degree proposals stuck at Ministry Metrics how we compare to other colleges in credentials held and investments in training/support. Expertise in teaching.
Potential stops along the way to meet with specific people for strategic conversations. Jeff has committed to write something substantive each month either to be published or posted on a blog – set up with Marketing. Jeff will seek input and feedback on these topics. Engaging in a public policy forum/discussion. Will consider co-publishing with someone else in Sheridan. Create a place where people come to read about innovation in the post-secondary system – mainly an external focus. Jeff will share next meeting some of the topic ideas. – suggestion made to link to articles written by others with an intro sentence. Tweet to drive to the blog. Capacity to be nimble, flexible and resilient. Professionalism through applied learning, theory to practice demonstrated in many ways throughout the building. Perspective of the marketplace – community demands degrees locally. Convergence of fields resulting in different types of programming. demonstrated capacity for scholarly learning in academic research as well as applied research. Technology – technological depth / infrastructure and reputation. Two demographics – enrolment – who the students are. Demographic of faculty – many with credentials who have elected to come to Sheridan. Differentiation has attracted faculty to be here. Successful partnerships with UofT and Ryerson- we do part of it, but they do the other part. Letters of support from Universities for our degree proposals. Research project – why did you come to Sheridan? Public policy - $5314 for degree...College model is financially better. Use report language Endowment set aside is high/good Creative/innovative incubator, smaller labs Faculty current credentials within the industry. Jeff will put some thought to the plan and communicate with who may be included in the visit. Engagement Team Reports Chairs Pathways – January 6 – large committee – engaged discussion, provincial context and why we are doing this. Linda Dalton provided Credit Transfer insights. Terms of Reference with an Discussion about teams coming together to work together
brought them to this team. Guest attending second meeting – Knightsbridge to present on themes that have come out of staff engagement here. Intend to break into smaller working groups. Quality – meeting soon. Shared background reading. Review draft Terms of Reference. Quality so integrated in the work of all groups. Plan to sit in on other team meetings. Quality models, and planned metrics. SOTL – next week meeting – TOR review and discussion. Large group. Use some group discussion techniques to help the group to move forward productively. Research – have met – 10 people – reviewed TORs. Michael Evans to be a member??, a lot of connections to SOTL. Student Experience – first meeting next week. What does student experience mean? All the various aspects involved. Feeling is that students do have a better experience here than at University. University – meeting this week. TOR finalization. Defining and limiting our research question. University Model can be the structural box within which the other engagement teams fit. Review other institutions that have gone through this transition. Series of questions for research with these other institutions, and what is the result of that structure in terms of rankings/quality, etc. assist with plans to visit other team meetings. Research/Mike Collins – will provide documents for uploading to team page. Determine whether Michael Evans may be added as a member. Suggest that Research discussions be brought to Deans and/or ALT. - Discussed that contacting other institutions for information in relation to the Journey needs to be coordinated in order to minimize the impact on the other institutions and present a professional approach. Suggest that a list of institutions and contact subject and names be posted on the Vision Steering Team page. Jeff Zabudsky How are we bringing faculty along in this discussion?? Comments link. Using existing committees for discussions, Academic Council, Town Hall, etc, Jeff offered his interest in accepting any invitation from Engagement to attend a meeting if desired. Templates for Team minutes, Agendas and Vision Steering team update docs will be