coe-staff: FW: Response to Program Review of the Department of Educational Methodology, Policy and Leadership (EMPL)

[Randy Kamphaus]

Dear Faculty and Staff,

Please see the attached memorandum sent to EMPL faculty and staff on November 21. Please also see the two files associated with the review and recommendations of the independent external program review team. I provide these documents to you as the first stage in our process of re-envisioning the academic programs associated with EMPL and identifying organizational structures that capitalize on existing departmental strengths.

I communicated my decision to sunset the current configuration of the EMPL department to the EMPL faculty and staff first, because EMPL personnel have an immediate need for some certainty about their workload, office location, and the personnel and financial resources available to them for at least the next 18-month period. Our college-wide process of engagement will begin with a town hall meeting scheduled for Friday, January 7, from 2:30 to 4 pm. A formal invitation will be coming soon and I invite you to attend. Up to this point, the following formal meetings have been held with EMPL faculty and university administration (see below table). As would be expected in any complex process, I am in consultation with various stakeholders on a nearly daily basis.

A meeting with EMPL full-time faculty (N=7; 2 NTTF Instructors, 5 TTF)
10/18
Individual meetings with the 7 EMPL full-time faculty
10/26-11/2
Individual meetings with two research professor track faculty who maintain part-time instructional assignments in the EMPL data science specialization
11/5
A meeting with college academic department heads
10/21
Two meetings with college deans
9/29, 11/3
A meeting with the college Faculty Advisory Committee
10/25
Three meetings with the Office of the Provost
9/30, 10/22, 10/27



In the near term, I will be working with EMPL faculty and staff, and in concert with the college curriculum committee, toward deactivation of the undergraduate LEADS minor (see report recommendations). I will also be meeting with the EMPL faculty this upcoming week to discuss next steps for engaging in, in the words of the review team, "... an extensive (re-en)visioning process..." In this regard, you will note that I made some initial proposals for creating extra-departmental academic structures analogous to our own EDUC program, the new Data Science<https://datascience.uoregon.edu/> program, and the longer-standing Environmental Studies<https://envs.uoregon.edu/> program (see related discussion and recommendations contained in section III on pages 3 and 4 of the committee report).

I look forward to working with all of you on the re-envisioning process and to achieve a successful transition for all parties. And I look forward to seeing everyone this afternoon.

Randy


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