Minutes January 24, 2019
Meeting
Call to order – Kim Obbink
Update on Carnegie Classification
Carnegie Research, Under Graduate and Classification
Very rough first draft by end of January
Challenges are:
Infrastructure or institutionalization
Role and scope documents
URL’s with examples from a college and a department:
EHHD
David Singel -Kim to keep in contact
Activity insight
Letters and Science- Jodi Sanford
Nursing
Cody advised group of definition of scholarship located in the new faculty handbook, Retention, Tenure & Promotion, Definitions, Scholarship, 4th paragraph. Research tied to engagement.
Update on Carnegie Community Engagement Application
Have identified 15 engagement projects:
February to fine tune and edit
March to finalize
Application is due April 15th
Notification of application will be January 2020, to the President.
Process has changed in that a questionnaire is sent directly to the partner, and the partner has to respond about their relationship and experience with the university.
Suggestions on how we want to spend our time in our next meetings
Review, brainstorm and update website:
Areas of Responsibility – re-word first bullet -example: “Coordinate campus-wide outreach and engagement efforts”.
Work on aligning with the strategic plan
Possibly creating a landing page for “About Service and Outreach” and include language of strategic plan. Cody to follow up on creating the “About” page.
News feed and tags – Julie to submit a ticket for “Outreach and Engagement” tag
Links-add awards
Header bar of main page of MSU website, change “outreach” tab to another. Was originally titled “Service”
First year New Faculty Orientation – a guest speaker could present to that group on how their Promotion and Tenure can be impacted by this council. Consider Leadership MSU, DEAL check with Marilyn Lockhart for training options?
Council of Councils Meeting
If President Cruzado calls this meeting together, we need to think about ideas on what we would do and on how to present.
Celebration of Engagement for Seed Grants
Expand invitees to the faculty/staff winners of the Provost Award to talk about their work to expose what is happening
Discuss in Fall –Extension Open House combined with Seed Grant Celebration might be beneficial. Possible dates would be October 23rd or 24th.
Celebratory festivity once Carnegie Application is Submitted?
Next meeting is Thursday, February 28th at 1:30pm.