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Goals: (from Dean Thorud's charges to the committee):
- Identify curricular options, approaches and issues for the future.
- Provide the essence of the internal and external context for each option or concept identified, including pros and cons.
- Consider curricular proposals or ideas suggested by non-members of the Futures Committee, including faculty, administrators, staff, and students.
- Evaluate efficiency and effectiveness in curricular design. For example, how do we effectively balance the desire of every student for an individualized program with the efficiency of integrating and combining programs?
- Consider the impact of limited time and financial resources. For example, as new, real opportunities in natural resource sciences emerge, how do we direct our instructional efforts to meet these new opportunities?
- Consider the balance of traditional approaches of instruction in forest resources with the chance to become regional or national leaders in new areas of instruction. Include the future role of distance learning technologies and pedagogies.
- Consider the balance of the College's view of our instructional mission with the view of our current and potential students, the University and the external community.
- Consider the impact of UIF reductions, i.e., the effective loss of three more faculty positions over the next six years. How do we stop doing things already in place to release resources to undertake new efforts?
- Consider functional links to other University of Washington programs and the associated opportunities including, for example, the Biology program, Program on the Environment, relationships with UW Bothell and UW Tacoma, the College of Engineering and other schools and colleges.
- Provide findings on what peer institutions are doing in curricular design for the future.
- Review and reflect on the outcomes of the CFR retreat of May 21,22 1999 at Camp Long, and how they should be institutionalized.
- Recommend how to best process the Future Committee's recommendations with CFR faculty, staff and students, and external stakeholders.
Members:
Jim Agee (Chair); Ivan Eastin; Kern Ewing; John Marzluff; Bob Northey; Clare Ryan; Dan Gavin (Research Assistant).
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