Strategic Plan
Departmental Issues
Curriculular Issues:
-Assessment of overall departmental faculty make-up. Should we pursue a "Music Of The Americas" position again? Can this position be successfully incorporated into the Expanding Knowledge Initiative?
-how to use Curd funds
-festival
-special study tours
-ongoing program for ensemble commissions (EM)
-Ninth Semester Fellowship (approved May 2005)
-other ideas?
-How to use roughly $300,000 in designated gifts
-instrument purchases: c. $30,000 fortepiano, $9,000 for natural horns. Other?
-AMAs received a 5% wage increase in 2004. Are there other ways to improve job satisfaction, strengthen the work of AMAs, and improve communication between full-time faculty and AMAs? Evaluation of AMAs is minimal, and there are no remunerative rewards for excellence. How can this situation be improved?
-should we propose a Lecturer position in voice (remedy for the frequent turn-over we have experienced in voice AMA position--a particularly high-enrollment, high-visibility area)?
-how can we develop and implement more effective mentoring for junior faculty?
-(please suggest more issues)
Logistical Goals
Ongoing improvement of departmental website
Division of Labor
Hill/Curd Awards Coordinator: Eric McIntyre
Student Recitals Coordinator: Patrice Ewoldt
Alumni Newsletter Editor: Roger Vetter
Senior Honors Concert Organizer: Patrice Ewoldt
Representative to Humanities Personnel Board: John Rommereim
Social Coordinator (plans parties and oversees the honoring of seniors): Jennifer Brown
Storage and filing of senior portfolios: John Rommereim
Steiner Award Competition coordinator: Todd Coleman
Ninth Semester Fellowship: Gene Gaub
Revision of Major Handbook: Ralph Russell and Jennifer Brown