School of Communication Faculty Meeting

Agenda

Locating us in Space and Time

The Sustainable Innovation Project

A changing School in a changing College

Questions and discussion

2010 SOC Study: (The Brodeur Report)

Innovation Agenda2010-2015

Stabilize/Enhance Faculty

Align Marketplace/

Students

Refine Brand

Realign Curriculum

EC Strategic Plan (Board of Trustees May 2011)

INITIATIVE IV

Strengthen the School of Communication

President Pelton’s InauguralCharge to the SOC

Review Propose Reimagine

Oct 2012: Rethinking Academic Structure

SOC Task Force (Cooke_Jackson, Grossman, Lieb, and Niwa)

Task force convened

Proposals solicited and developed

Learning occasions, school-wide meetings

Recommendations

Criteria for proposals:

Align with EC strategic priorities

Potential for drawing students

Respond to global comm

trends

Enhance EC brand in

communication

Three proposals:

A new major: CSCP

A research center: ILCE

A culture-building initiative

Advancing the ideas

Major Davis work; Major in

bus/mgt comm/arts

Research center college- wide process for developing

research centers

A culture-building initiative

pursued by chairs and through Davis

project

Sustainable Innovation

“If the SOC is to achieve the goals outlined in this report, we must put innovative thinking and practice at the core of everything that faculty, students, and staff do everyday.

The curriculum, institutional procedures and structures, reinforcement patterns, and culture itself must embrace innovation.”

Sustainable Innovation

“If our students are going to succeed in their post-Emerson careers, they must know what it means to innovate and how to do it.

This will only happen if the School fosters an environment of continuous innovation.”

(SOC report, 2010)

The Sustainable Innovation Project

Supported by a grant from

The Davis Educational Foundation

Sustainable Innovation Project

Three elements:

Deepening expertise in Information Technologies

Creating structures and alignments that promote innovation

Creating curricular processes that encourage innovation

Group 1

Eight faculty members

January – May 2014

Create a plan for realign programs and curricula in the SOC

Deepen expertise in emerging information technologies, media, and applications

Follow-up reporting and evaluating

Course equivalency plus summer stipend

Group 2

Four faculty members

June 2014

Deepen expertise in “agile methodologies”

Create a plan for curricular change processes

Follow-up reporting and evaluating

Summer stipend

Group 3

Eight faculty members

Fall – Winter 2014

Carry forward the work begun by Group 1

Engage SOC faculty in revising and adopting

Deepen expertise in emerging information technologies, media, and applications

Follow-up reporting and evaluating

Course equivalency plus stipend

Expected outcomes

A structure that promotes ongoing innovation

Substantive learning in information and computing technologies . . . .

That appears in courses, curricula, planning

Processes for ongoing, rapid adaptation of curricula

A deepened culture of collaboration

Towards SOC Programs that are

Rigorous

Differentiated and integrated

Drawing excellent students

Global

Innovative

Sustainable

Situating SOC work within the context of EC

Discussion time

Questions

Ideas

Challenges

Plans