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UNT community is encouraged to participate in online academic plan forums
UNT is creating a collaborative academic plan that will serve as a roadmap to guide its academic future, and the entire university community is being asked to participate in the discussion through online forums.
To participate in the forum |
1. Go to mediation.sullivan.edu. |
2. Use "untadministrator," "untstudent," "untstaff" or "untfaculty" as the user ID, depending on your role at the university. If you hold more than one role, choose the role that best fits your comment. |
3. Use Dec3 as the case-sensitive password. |
| 4. On each main page, you may give your input on the plan and read previous comments. |
See the box for directions explaining how to participate.
The plan will include strategic initiatives that will help focus the university's responses to the pressures that surround higher education today, according to Celia Williamson, special assistant to the provost.
Howard Johnson, provost and vice president for academic affairs, began the planning process in Fall 2003 when an initial draft was posted to the web site web2.unt.edu/vpaa/AcademicPlanpg.cfm. Work intensified this fall with meetings held across campus and the creation of seven task forces to address key issues such as curricular innovation and the learning environment, diversity and community, faculty roles, and increasing research.
Meetings were held with deans, chairs, faculty and staff members of the colleges and schools, individual academic departments, individual academic support units and directors, new faculty, and the Faculty Senate executive committee. Task force representation includes about 100 faculty volunteers recruited by the Faculty Senate and academic administrators.
This fall, three round-table forums were held to discuss the future context of higher education and UNT's role in it, as well as to review the draft plan. The first involved the Faculty Senate, the second involved the task force volunteers and the third, which was held Dec. 3, involved more than 50 people representing students, faculty, staff and administrators.
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KELLEY REESE kreese@unt.edu |
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