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TTI Working Conference June 9, 2008
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_.Missouri/Oklahoma
_.Thursday, February 19, 2009
_.Host Institution: Missouri State University
_..Meeting Location:
_..Springfield, MO 65897


Coordinators

Imagining America
Elizabeth Burton
Associate Director
Citizenship and Service-Learning
Missouri State University


Campus Compact
Melissa Mace
Executive Director, Missouri Campus Compact



Participating Institutions * Team Leaders (e-mail)
Missouri State University (HOST) (IA/CC) Marc Cooper
Action Plan
W. D. Blackmon
University of Missouri-St. Louis (CC) Fred Willman
Truman State University (CC) Dereck Daschke
Northeastern State University (CC) Dalton Bigbee
Oklahoma State University (IA/CC) Carol Lynn Moder
University of Tulsa(OK) (CC) Lara Foley
University of Central Oklahoma (CC) Pamela Washington

* Click the links above to read a synopsis of the current status of promotion and tenure policy development for public scholarship at each institution.


Agenda (Listen to select audio recordings of this meeting or Click links below for narrative PDF documents)
8:30 - 9:00 Registration and light breakfast
9:00 - 9:45

Opening speakers

Welcome and introduction by:

  • Elizabeth Burton, Associate Director of Citizenship and Service Learning, Missouri State University
  • Melissa Mace, Executive Director, Missouri Campus Compact
  • Gina Wekke, Executive Director, Oklahoma Campus Compact
  • Jan Cohen-Cruz, Director, Imagining America
9:45 - 10:30

Team Leaders will provide brief introductions of major campus initiatives related to expanding recognition of public scholarship and action in tenure and promotion.

10:30 -noon

Panel of engaged faculty and/or administrators at different career stages respond to the TTI report; general group discussion jumping off from the report; moderated by Tim Eatman

Panel:

  • Bill Bryans, Associate Professor, Oklahoma State University
  • W.D. Blackmon, Professor and Head, Department of English, Missouri State University
  • Pam Washington, Dean, College of Liberal Arts, University of Central Oklahoma
12:15 - 1 Lunch
1 - 2:45

Working group meetings

Facilitator
Theme
Room
Marc Cooper Scholarship in the public: Broadening the definition, making the case PSU 310
   
Carey Adams The arc of the career: Fostering innovation in early career faculty PSU 315B
 
Outcomes
 
Carol Moder Deans, chairs, and directors: Supporting engagement by supporting mid-level academic leaders PSU 315C
   
2:45 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 4:00

Campus teams meet to identify directions for next steps for their campus and any major issues or questions that came up vis-a-vis promotion and tenure as a result of the day's exchange

4:00 - 4:45

Brief presentations on next steps and reflections by a representative from each institution