>From owner-trad-l@LISTSERV.VT.EDU Tue Jul 23 16:28:00 1996 Received: (from mailadm@localhost) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA26738 for fox@fox.cs.vt.edu; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 16:24:59 -0400 Received: from ipe.cc.vt.edu (ipe.cc.vt.edu [128.173.4.8]) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id QAA21644; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 16:24:58 -0400 Received: from ipe.cc.vt.edu (ipe.cc.vt.edu [128.173.4.8]) by ipe.cc.vt.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA34124; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 16:19:57 -0400 Received: from LISTSERV.VT.EDU by LISTSERV.VT.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 385361 for TRAD-L@LISTSERV.VT.EDU; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 16:19:56 -0400 Received: from fox.cs.vt.edu (fox.cs.vt.edu [128.173.40.84]) by ipe.cc.vt.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA90182 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 16:19:55 -0400 Received: by fox.cs.vt.edu (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA12619; Tue, 23 Jul 1996 16:19:53 -0400 X-Sender: fox@fox.cs.vt.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Message-Id: Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 16:19:52 -0400 Reply-To: "Edward A. Fox" Sender: trad-l Discussion List From: "Edward A. Fox" Subject: one msg of background from Anne McNabb To: Multiple recipients of list TRAD-L Hi! I am sending this since some recipients of "trad-l" may not have seen it. See also my next msg that continues the guidance provided by Anne. Thanks, Ed ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 11:25:31 -0400 From: Anne McNabb To: Multiple recipients of list FOCUS-L To: Chairs of the Self Study Subcommittees and other members of the Steering Committee From: Anne McNabb Subject: Back to Work Date: 7/11/96 Since the May 20 meeting David C. and I have been working on assembling the subcommittee memberships and developing a list of resource people for the subcommittees to consult. David will send you the committee lists soon and I will send the one on resource people in a day or two. Note that each subcommittee has a Chair and a Co-Chair and that David C. and I will each serve on two subcommittees. We anticipate that this structure will provide back-up when chairs are temporarily unable to provide leadership, as well as providing cross-talk about the activities of the different subcommittees. The list of resource people will continue to grow and I encourage you to suggest additional people who seem particularly appropriate to helping us with our work. Our Steering Committee membership has increased. Heywood Fralin (Chief Exec. Officer, Medical Facilities of America, Roanoke, VA) has been reappointed to the Board of Visitors of VA Tech and has enthusiastically agreed to be a representative of the BOV on our Steering Committee. Mr. Fralin has shown a great deal of interest in understanding the academics of VA Tech during the two years he has served on the board so he is an ideal member for the Steering Committee of the Strategic Self Study. We now have research assistance for our work. Janice McBee is a research associate working part-time on the project for the next two years. (Janice also teaches part-time in Education and she has a great deal of experience with various types of project work relevant to our needs on the Self Study). Currently she is assembling the "library" of our materials for the Strategic Self Study and she will be available to help with a variety of data collection tasks. David Conn will tell you more of our plans for location of the library and a Strategic Self Study office. At our May 20 meeting we decided it would be helpful to think of our subcommittee tasks in the context of our final Strategic Self Study report. To that end we outlined a potential Table of Contents for the final report. It was decided that each of the subcommittees (corresponding to a "learner group") would present its report as a chapter. We listed a set of general subjects of study under Chapter 2 to illustrate the general sorts of information that groups might be studying. That Table of Contents is included with this memo and has a few small additions suggested by Provost Meszaros. (For example, she suggested that the chapter we had titled Integration, be changed to Cross-cutting issues). At the May 20 meeting it was agreed that subcommittees would further define the list of specific subjects they would study in relation to the special nature of the different learning groups. Now that the subcommittees are essentially complete, we request that the chairs of each subcommittee assemble as many of their members as possible in the near future to prepare that detailed list of subjects and a general plan for the main period of work during fall semester. Attached to this memo I include a summary of the most recent subject lists your subcommittees have sent to David and me. I hope these are complete and that each subcommittee will find the subjects defined by other committees help add ideas and focus their thoughts about both the similarities and differences in what subcommittees need to study. We also need to define what types of information, surveys, library materials, etc. need to be assembled to facilitate the work of the subcommittees. It is particularly important that these needs be defined during the summer, so that we can use Janice's help efficiently and productively. We are asking Gerry McLaughlin and John Muffo about surveys the University has done (through either Institutional Research or the Survey Research Center) in the last several years that fit with types of information the subcommittees have already indicated they will need. We will provide you with that listing as soon as it is available. Chairs/CoChairs of Subcommittees, please try to provide as much of the following as possible by Thursday Aug. 1 so that we may help provide you with needed resources that can be assembled during the summer: (1) A list of specific subjects your subcommittee will study for our topic "Transforming VA Tech for the Information Age". Please include statements of any assumptions that underly the approach you are taking to these subjects. (2) A list of the types of data you will need in your study: (any surveys that need to be conducted, surveys you know of or think have been done elsewhere, library materials that need to be assembled, etc.). (3) A list of additional working subgroups that you anticipate setting up to study specific issues. (4) Any suggestions you have about cross-cutting issues that need to be addressed by working groups other than those set up by the subcommittees. As cross-cutting issues that don't fall within the work of the subcommittees are defined, David C. and I will set up working groups (separate from the subcommittees) to address those issues. Please note that it is a SACS requirement that we keep records of all our activities. Thus, subcommittees need to take minutes that record major decisions and actions. However, those minutes don't need to include all the details of your discussions. (David C. will be out of town July 23 to Aug. 7, I will be away July 27-31. Let us know when you are holding meetings and we will do our best to attend and be helpful). PS - If you wish me to send you a hard copy of this or the follow-up, or to send them as a Microsoft Word attachment file, please let me know at happy@vt.edu Please don't burden the listserve by using the Reply mode. F. M. Anne McNabb Dept. of Biology Virginia Tech Blacksburg VA 24061-0406 email: happy@vt.edu ph. (540) 231-6118 FAX (540) 231-9307