MEMORANDUM
To: Hugh
Devine, College of Natural Resources, Co-Chair
Sharon Pitt, Learning Technology Service,
Co-Chair
Carolyn Argentati, Libraries
John Ambrose, Undergraduate Affairs
Bob Beichner, College of Physical and
Mathematical Sciences
Leslie Dare, Student Affairs
Meredith Davis, College of Design
Michael Harwood, Facilities Division
George Hodge, College of Textiles
Virginia Lee, Faculty Center for Teaching
and Learning
Duane Larick, Graduate School
Gerry Luginbuhl, College of Agriculture
and Life Sciences
Jay Levine, College of Veterinary Medicine
Stan North Martin, Information Technology
Division
Michael McElroy, College of Management
Roger Rohrbach, College of Engineering
Jane Steelman, College of Education
Sarah Stein, College of Humanities and
Social Sciences
Michael Vasu, College of Humanities and
Social Sciences
Candace Goode Vick, College of Natural
Resources
TBA, Undergraduate Student
Ephraim Schechter, University Planning
and Analysis, ex officio
Karen Helm, Accreditation Liaison, ex
officio
From: Stuart Cooper,
Provost
Date: September
3, 2002
Subject: Learning
in a Technology-Rich Environment
I invite you to
help shape NC State's future by serving on the team that will plan our
21st century learning environment. Emerging technologies will continue
to provide new opportunities to reinvent teaching and learning. To provide
the highest quality education for our students, we must anticipate and
continuously prepare to take full advantage of those opportunities.
The team is charged
with the following.
- Develop a vision
for the 21st educational environment at NC State, emphasizing the
central role that technology will play
- analyze and assess
strengths, challenges, and opportunities for the university in relation
to student learning and the learning environment, particularly as
facilitated by technology
- Develop goals
and strategies for building on our current strengths and achieving
the vision
- Identify resource
needs associated with strategies and propose priorities among those
alternatives
- Propose an implementation
plan, including assignment of responsibilities and a schedule
This plan will not
only help direct the future of our university, but it will also help
us prepare for reaffirmation of accreditation by the Southern Association
of Colleges and Schools (SACS) in 2004 (see: /UPA/accreditation/index.htm).
SACS has revised the entire reaffirmation process, which now requires
preparation of a Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP). Upon recommendation
of the deans and executive officers, Chancellor Fox has selected "Learning
in a Technology-Rich Environment" as the QEP focus. The topic was
selected on the basis of a general description (attached), however,
your team may define its own goals and strategies for the plan for the
university. Regardless of the direction that the team chooses, the result
should be a plan in which learning will drive the acquisition and deployment
of technology, rather than the reverse.
Hugh Devine, College
of Natural Resources, and Sharon Pitt, Learning Technology Service,
will co-chair this team. Please provide opportunities for substantial,
campus-wide input. The proposed plan should be submitted to me by October
1, 2003, to allow for executive review before submitting it to SACS
in January 2004.
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