RETREAT MEETING NOTES  & slides

AGENDA

  • 8:30 Coffee and socializing
  • 9:00  Living our values: brainstorming >> planning >> action (Nancy)
  • Strategic planning: getting on the same page (John)
    • Breakout w/ report back: research themes & identify action items
  • 10:30: What makes you committed to this place? How could we support you better? (Mark)
    • Breakout w/report back
  • 12:00 Lunch:  cluster around curricular areas
  • 1:00 Stephen Duff on technology integration
    Pecha Kucha sharing of summer updates
  • 2:30 Vote : Ad Hoc Committee & NTTF for Personnel Committee
  • 3:30  flex time to follow up on the above

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

Ihab Elzeyadi and Stephen Duff have stepped up to be Director of Graduate Studies candidates.  Please provide Nancy feedback about their fit to the DGS Position Description.

2018 Studio Funding Awards

Volunteers needed:  A new UO Teaching Evaluation Process to support faculty development is being piloted:  anyone interested in helping shape it so that our classes are evaluated fairly? Contact Lee Rumbarger of the Teaching Effectiveness Program.

Reminder:  Annual Reports due Oct 1

LINKS

CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA (please let Nancy know of others)

  • Lecture:  Weijen Wang, http://wwjarch.com, University of Hong Kong, Oct 1 @5:30pm in 206LA, Oct 2 @5:30pm in 150 WSB
  • International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments in Coimbra, Portugal October 4-7, 2018 – Mark Gillem, Conference Director, wants to move it to UO- http://iaste.berkeley.edu/
  • International workshop with Meiji University, Oct 4-7, 2018 – Portland. Hajo Neis, organizer
  • PUARL Conference on Migration, Refugees & Patterns, Oct 26-28, 2018 – Portland. Hajo Neis, organizer
  • Mosquitos and Public Health symposium, Oct 25-27, 2018 – Portland. Brook Muller, organizer.
  • Simulation in Architecture and Urban Design April 7-9, 2019. Siobhan Rockcastle, General Chair.  and SimAUD Spring 2020 or 2021 – Portland. http://www.simaud.org/
  • John Reynolds Symposium:  Education by Design, October 18-19, 2019 – Eugene.  Alison Kwok, organizer
  • Environmental Design Research Association 2021 or 2022 – Portland. https://www.edra.org/  Ihab Elzeyadi, organizer.