Each team will address the question: What does being "student-centered" mean? Teams will, in addition, be invited to comment on other issues as their time/interest permits.
Team 1: Convener: Don Corner, Architecture (dcorner @aaa) Group Issue: To meet our mission in undergraduate education, what
changes are needed in our general education requirements? Our primary
mission is undergraduate education -- how can we better fulfill this part
of our mission?
Team 2: Convener: Jon Cawthorne, Library (jcawthor @oregon) Group Issue: What steps can the UO take to improve its internal
climate so that all members of the campus community are positively involved
in needed change and are invested in the mission and activities of the
institution?
Team 3: Convener: David Robertson, Museum of Art (drobert @oregon) Group Issue: How can we better integrate our major initiatives in
the 21st century in order to develop a faculty and student body capable of
participating effectively in a global society? How do we provide
experiences for all our students with the appropriate international focus?
Team 4: Convener: Gaye Vandermyn, Communications (gayev @oregon) Group Issue: How can the University and its admitted students
mutually assume greater responsibility for student persistence and degree
completion?
Team 5: Convener: Jane Poe, Resource Management (jpoe @oregon) Group Issue: What changes are needed in our structure and delivery
mechanisms for undergraduate education? How can we further streamline
course and program approvals?
Team 6: Convener: Paula Burkhart, Research & Grad Ed (burkhart @oregon) Group Issue: What steps can the UO take to improve its public
image with its various constituents?
Team 7: Convener: Kathy Heerema, University Computing (heerema @oregon) Group Issue: What additional strategies or alternative methods can
the UO use to recruit successfully the number and caliber of students our
institution can serve?
Team 8: Convener: Jim Terborg, Professor & Head, Business Management (jterborg @oregon) Group Issue: How should UO's graduate programs evolve to meet the
needs of the 21st Century?
Team 9: Convener: Jim Upshaw, Journalism (jupshaw @oregon) Group Issue: Who are our students and who should they be?
Team 10: Convener: Dave Conley, OSSHE (David_Conley @ccmail) Group Issue: What should be our relationship to other educational
institutions, including those within the state system, the state system
itself, as well as K-12 programs, community colleges, and independent
four-year institutions.
Team 11: Convener: Bob O'Brien, Sociology (bobrien @oregon) Group Issue: What should a post-secondary education provide for
students in 2010?
Team 12: Convener: Terri Heath, SISL (dtheath @oregon) Group Issue: What role can and should technology play in how we
deliver educational programs and conduct our work in the 21st century?
Team 13: Convener: Georgeanne Cooper, ALS (gcooper @oregon) Group Issue: How can the UO transform its educational programs to
make them truly "learning-centered"?
Team 14: Convener: John Nicols, History (jnicols @oregon) Group Issue: Assuming that the future brings adjustments (of one
kind or another) in the resources available to the University, what
guidelines and what processes should we use to make decisions internally
about resource allocation or reallocation?
Team 15: Convener: Marian Friestad, Marketing (msf @oregon) Group Issue: How should UO's graduate programs evolve to meet the
needs of the 21st Century?
Team 16: Convener: Mary Gleason-Ricker, Education (Mary_Gleason @ccmail) Group Issue: To meet our mission in undergraduate education, what
changes are needed in our general education requirements? Our primary
mission is undergraduate education -- how can we better fulfill this part
of our mission?
Team 17: Convener: Maurice Holland, Law (mholland @law.uoregon.edu) Group Issue: What changes are needed in our structure and delivery
mechanisms for undergraduate education? How can we further streamline
course and program approvals?
Team 18: Convener: George Sheridan, History/International Affairs (gjs @oregon) Group Issue: How can we better integrate our major initiatives in
the 21st century in order to develop a faculty and student body capable of
participating effectively in a global society? How do we provide
experiences for all our students with the appropriate international focus?