coe-staff: Ad Hoc Committee Report - erratum

[Randy Kamphaus]

Dear Faculty and Staff,
Laura Lee just asked me to clarify that the second document I referenced in my email below did not include ideas for which consensus was reached. In the interest of further clarity, my goals for that email were twofold, to ensure that the hard work of the committee is fully appreciated, and to give our COE community timely notice that I accept the primary recommendation of the group, which is, “1) Retain the current department structure in the COE with enhanced integration of our college’s research centers. Our sponsored research activity in the COE is substantial, and we must do a better job integrating our research faculty with the larger academic mission of the College. We note that a separate taskforce, chaired by Leslie Leve, has been tasked by the Dean to provide additional recommendations on enhancing the satisfaction and success of our research track faculty in the COE and maximizing synergies between our research faculty and our academic units.”
I look forward to working with everyone as we address the other committee recommendations in January.
Regards,
Randy
Offices of the Provost and President

Dear Faculty and Staff,
I hope that all of you take the opportunity to read this report - both documents. It is the product of an unprecedented cross-academic departmental effort led largely by our tenure-related faculty. I am most grateful for the amount of time and expertise applied to the work, and in particular, for the leadership of Professor Laura Lee McIntyre. All worked hard, and she worked hardest. The result of these efforts is important both for its clarity and scope.
The wishes of the tenure-related faculty to maintain our four departmental structure is clear, and I will respect that wish, unless or until we jointly identify a better administrative structure. I will continue these discussions with faculty in the interest of avoiding having to make decisions in the midst of some unanticipated budgetary emergency. For this reason, I will keep our academic departmental structure as a periodic agenda item for our department heads, faculty advisory committee, college-wide faculty and staff meetings, and other ongoing governance gatherings.
The scope of the work is impressive. Both documents reflect considerable idea generation that likely resulted in thorough discussions of the possibilities. I would like to call your attention to the final page of the "restructuring plan..." document. There, our colleagues provide us with a list of goals that might enhance collaboration and/or reduce fiscal deficits and are therefore important for us to pursue in the short term.
They are (numbered for convenience of reference):
1. Identify programs that might function better as college-wide offerings (e.g.,the DEd in Educational Leadership, the PhD in Quantitative Research Methods in Education, the Prevention Science programs)

2. Change COE policies regarding departmental representation on service committees (e.g., only one department representative required on committees, such as the FPC)

3. Identify possible courses that might be shared or integrated on ad hoc basis (mentioned above)

4. Identify Master’s programs that do not attract many students (e.g.,<10 students per year) and revise or shutter them (mentioned above)

5. Identify new, innovative Master’s program(s) that might attract large numbers of students (e.g., D Ed specialization in serving bilingual youth and families, D Ed specialization in serving Indigenous youth and communities (possible federal grant support for this), a Master’s in Education Data Science, a Master’s in Bilingualism in Children and Youth)

​I will work with faculty to pursue these ideas with some urgency, which is necessary for us to achieve a more stable, less volatile, fiscal status.

How will we pursue these goals? In anticipation of the ad hoc committee report, I adopted a "task force" model for addressing the expressed desire of the faculty to better integrate our research and academic missions, and personnel. Professor Leslie Leve is leading that effort, and has enlisted a group of faculty members for this task force.

From a thematic standpoint, I will discuss goals 1, 3, 4, and 5 with our academic department heads and determine next courses of action. For goal 2, I will ask the faculty advisory committee to bring some initial recommendations to the faculty for consideration at our next college-wide meeting.

There are many good ideas in this report. Each deserves careful consideration. I will address some of these in my upcoming fiscal status updates, and others in various forms of communication.

For now, it is a time for me, and all of us, to be grateful for the work and expertise of our colleagues. And, with some luck, we will add three new tenure-related faculty colleagues to our ranks in the coming weeks. Each new member will add unique expertise, world views, and opportunities that will benefit all of us - students, staff, and faculty alike.

Wishing everyone, and the Ad Hoc Committee members in particular, a restful break,

Randy
c Offices of the Provost and President


For scheduling, please contact Maggie Bosworth at  magboz at uoregon.edu<mailto:%20magboz at uoregon.edu> or 541-346-6467.
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R.W. Kamphaus, Ph.D. | Professor and Dean
randyk at uoregon.edu<mailto:randyk at uoregon.edu> | 541-346-3405
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