>From owner-trad-l@LISTSERV.VT.EDU Thu Mar 13 13:06:25 1997 Received: from listserv.vt.edu (listserv.vt.edu [128.173.4.9]) by listserv.vt.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA39524; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 13:06:24 -0500 Received: from LISTSERV.VT.EDU by LISTSERV.VT.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8c) with spool id 695220 for TRAD-L@LISTSERV.VT.EDU; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 13:06:23 -0500 Received: from sable.cc.vt.edu (sable.cc.vt.edu [128.173.16.30]) by listserv.vt.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA28250 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 13:06:23 -0500 Received: from [128.173.126.10] (conn.prov.vt.edu [128.173.126.10]) by sable.cc.vt.edu (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id NAA07105 for ; Thu, 13 Mar 1997 13:06:20 -0500 (EST) X-Sender: conn@mail.vt.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 13:06:22 -0500 Reply-To: "W. David Conn" Sender: trad-l Discussion List From: "W. David Conn" Subject: Meeting on Monday March 24 To: TRAD-L@LISTSERV.VT.EDU It looks as though 1-3 might be a good time for most of you on Monday March 24. Please hold this time. I'll confirm it after I've heard from everyone else! Ed would also like to have the customary Thursday morning meeting on March 20 (i.e., next Thursday). Hopefully, you will have received a very preliminary draft (actually, a stringing together of what we have) before then. We'll need to move extremely rapidly to fill in gaps, etc., and come up with recommendations that we can justify/defend. As you may know, Peggy is working on her implementation strategy for the University Plan Update. The timing is lousy, but if we really wish to have an impact on the university's direction, at least in the short term, we need to have some preliminary recommendations to her by March 26 (when she will be meeting with the Steering Committee). The implementation plan itself is to be in place by August. Unfortunately, events around us are moving so rapidly that we have to proceed much faster than most of us would prefer. But it's no good complaining about it ... we have to make our voice heard now if we are to avoid becoming irrelevant. Please think about very specific and tangible recommendations (with indications of WHO should carry them out and by WHEN). The sooner they are on the table, the more likely we will be able to give them some airing (i.e., solicit other opinions about them) before or around the same time as we give them to Peggy. Not an ideal process, by any means ..... but it's all we have! David *********************************************************** W. David Conn, Professor & Special Assistant to the Provost Director of University Self-Study Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Blacksburg, VA 24061-0155, USA E-mail: conn@vt.edu Tel: (540) 231-2690 Fax: (540) 231-7211