Faculty are invited to join a Charting Our Course Faculty Team. This is your opportunity for direct conversation and on-the-ground work to identifying which degrees and academic programs we will prioritize creating through the rest of this decade. Please join us as we reimagine the future of Channel Islands, affirm our history, and grapple with fundamental questions regarding our identity, our mission, and our aspirations. It’s good work and your participation is vital.
The Details: During the month of January 2022, five to seven faculty teams will work on creating proposals for presentation at a campus forum on Friday, January 28th campus-wide forum. This work will begin with an all-day, in-person retreat with Cabinet and Academic Affairs leadership on Wednesday, January 5th. Stipends of $5,000 are available to faculty for their work, with $6,000 for team leaders. This is essentially full-time work for the month of January—good work and a lot of it!
Teams will be formed around the following themes:
- Curriculum Development Teams: Multiple teams around broad curriculum areas (e.g., Arts, Sciences, Humanities, Business and communication, or similar), with purpose of making data-informed proposals to increase the breadth and scope of the degrees CSUCI offers.
- CSUCI Distinctive Mission Team: A team on the core, distinguishing features of a CSUCI education (e.g., experiential learning, prepared for the green economy, regional engagement with National Park and Marine Sanctuary, etc.)
- Mission Pillars Team: A team focused on the mission pillars, with the purpose of interrogating, confirming, and/or reimagining the mission pillars and recommending strategies for integrating the mission pillars into the core of academic mission.
- Academic Organization Team: A team on academic organization and policy, i.e., colleges vs schools, creation of departments, the optimum number of colleges, which departments go to which schools, timeline for implementation, nuts and bolts of curriculum policy, and similar.
To apply, click the 'Apply,' button below. You’ll be asked your department, which teams you would be willing to join (at least two), and to affirm your commitment to participation in the key events. Deadline to apply is December 1, 2021.
While all are welcome—and encouraged—as a practical matter, there is a limit to the number of faculty that can join a team, due both to limited fiscal resources and to the fact that there is only so much work to go around. At this time, we anticipate slots for approximately 50 faculty, including lecturer faculty. Each department is strongly encouraged to identify at least one or two faculty to participate on a faculty team. That said, the Provost’s Office will make every attempt to include all interested faculty.
Nota Bene: First, to be eligible for a stipend, faculty must commit to (a) participating in the in-person all day retreat on January 5th, (b) meeting at least once per week in person with their team, and (c) presenting at the Campus Forum on January 28th. Second, team leaders will be asked to meet at least twice during the month of December, and then again two additional times in the month of February.