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Charge to Research and Scholarship Committee

  1. To investigate the feasibility of establishing a faculty center as a mechanism to foster intellectual community at the University.
    1. What are the advantages and disadvantages of a faculty center?
    2. What role might students and alumni play in its functioning?
    3. What do other universities have? Do they work well? What are the costs?
    4. What exists now a the University which might be developed or enriched (the Colonnade Club, for example)?
    5. Where does a faculty center fit into short-range and long-range plans?
    6. What programming, dining opportunities, or activities might the center provide?
  2. To investigate the feasibility of establishing common spaces as a mechanism to foster intellectual community.
    1. How can common spaces around Grounds be created or enhanced for the formal and informal exchanges of ideas among faculty, among students, and between faculty and students?
    2. What are those common spaces?
    3. Can the University's libraries and bookstores be adopted to these ends?
    4. What can be learned from the creative use of such common spaces in the different schools of the University and at other institutions?
    5. Can any changes be made immediately which would help us reach these goals quickly?
  3. To investigate the creation of opportunities for building intellectual community.
    1. How can reading groups, workshops, lecture series, work-in-progress groups, colloquia, seminars, panels, and other vehicles be fostered and encouraged?
    2. What role can the administration play?
    3. Can time be set aside (block time) for university-wide activities?
    4. How can information about events of a cross-disciplinary nature be more rapidly and thoroughly disseminated among faculty members?

The Subcommittee for Each of the Charges

  1. Feasibility of establishing a faculty center

    2. Ryan Nelson, Craig Sarazin, Barbara Parker, Houston Wood

  2. Feasibility of establishing common spaces

    3. David Gies, Susan McKinnon, Paul Mahoney, Craig Slingluff

  3. Creation of opportunities for building intellectual community

    4. Paul Cantor, Julian Connolly, Dan Larson, Marty Snell