Notes from December 17, 2013 meeting

Community and Culture Committee Plan of Work for 2013-14 year.

GOAL 1.  Inclusion

Action E1.1 –  Year 1 – analyze and interpret statistics from Dean’s office

Year 1 – Research the possibility of creating a Community & Culture Webpage linked to the CAD Webpage, build content, design.

GOAL 2.  Social Engagement

Action E2.1 –  Year 1 –  begin to a design with the help of students a digital “passport”  for all of the CAD community to track their engagement in the college community.  We will look into the possibility of scanning an ID (passport) or working with the RIT ID card to be able to record, track, and have a digital footprint of “passport stamps”.  The goal is to have this designing and research phase complete for implementation by Fall 2014.  Also in Year 1 – we will work with Schools to identify and highlight activities for the 2014-15 year to design a calendar for…. read more

Status as of December 16, 2013

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Below you will find the initial Marketing and Recruitment Committees plan of work.

Marketing and Recruitment Strategic Map 2013-2015

We have worked on identifying where our student population comes from. We used data provided to us by the Bursars offices of all students registered for the 2013-2014 academic year in CAD to create a heat map. We have created two maps, undergraduate and graduate, and have grouped  students by state on the map. International students are grouped by country.

In the future we would like to plot previous years to look for trends that may help us identify potential high yield recruiting areas.

Undergraduate student population read more

Faculty and Staff: Career Focus/Success – Plan Outline for AY 2013-2014

Introduction

The CAD mission and vision promotes an academic environment of creativity and technology convergence while inspiring, innovating, and educating in fields where this convergence occurs. Core to the achievement of this vision and mission is a strong team of faculty and staff who are world class scholars and creative practitioners.

Goal 1 Faculty and Staff – CAD will have high quality faculty and staff to provide curriculum instruction and administrative support relative to the mission and vision of the College. read more

The Scholarship, Creativity and Research Strategic Dimension from the CAD Strategic Plan is reproduced below, followed by ideas and actions from the initial meetings of the Committee

Introduction:

Scholarship, creativity and research are pivotal components for faculty, students and staff in our College. CAD’s strategic plan looks to the following goals as defined in RIT’s Strategic Plan:

• Achieve 100% student participation in innovation, creativity, and scholarship activities
• Increase sponsored research awards
• Achieve 100% faculty participation in research

Goal 1 Support

All CAD faculty will have support in their development, implementation and dissemination of scholarship, creativity and research. read more

It’s that time of year, you’ve been working on your homework and project diligently all semester long and saving all your work to your USB thumb drive that you never let out of your site.
You may even sleep with it. You know that it is THAT important!

But disaster is right around the corner!

You never know where it will happen or when it when it will strike.

Backup your data! In at least three places! On a USB, in the “Cloud’ Dropbox, Google Drive etc..

Here’s a story about how Pixar almost lost Toy Story 2 almost got completely deleted. read more