30 September 2014. Welcome Introductions A few updates Your feedback on COFAC goals Outline.

COFAC Dean’s Address and College Town Hall

30 September 2014

Welcome Introductions A few updates Your feedback on COFAC goals

Outline

Slide 2 remarks

I’m so glad you are all here. Before we start talking about college matters a brief university-level perspective. As you know, President Loeschke is on leave for the fall semester. Provost Tim Chandler is serving as Acting President and Vice Provost Maggie Reitz as Acting Provost. They are committed to President Loeschke’s vision and working to keep things as seamless as possible.

They are doing an excellent job and COFAC is on track. Our college is strong and moving forward.

Melanie Formentin in MCCS – Strategic

Communication, Public Relations Theory, Sports Communication, Crisis Management (Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University)

Kyongseok Kim in MCCS – Advertising, Consumer Information Processing, Advertising Effectiveness, Health Communication (Ph.D. University of Georgia)

Joe Kraemer in EMF – Filmmaker, media practitioner, cinematography, lighting and sound design for film (M.F.A. Temple University)

New Tenure-track Faculty

Kate Collins in Arts Integration (Ph.D.

Ohio State University) – Program Direction and Arts Integration

Lynn Tomlinson in EMF (M.F.A. Towson University) - Animation and Visual Effects

Elia Powers in MCCS (Ph.D. University of Maryland) – Mass Communication Research Methods

New Visiting Faculty

James Cosper – Art – Graphic Design Kim Hopkins – Art – Graphic Design Kim Sels – Art – Art History Jon Lundak – Art - Sculpture Michael Duffy – EMF – Film and Media History Erin Witte – MCCS – Public Speaking and Rhetoric Studies Marcy Lightfoot – MCCS – Public Speaking and Nonverbal

Communication Darcey Morris – MCCS – Communication Studies Research

Methods Samuel Baltimore - Music – Music History Michelle Humphries – Music - Percussion

New Lecturers

Joanna Pecore in Asian Arts and Culture Jayme Guenther in Marching Band Emily Romeo in Art

New Regular Staff

Beth Haller - MCCS Susan Isaacs - Art History

COFAC Fellows 2014-15

Hussman Center for Adults with Autism

College Council

Chair Jeff Howard Music Vice Chair Phil Davis Art

COFAC PTRM Chair Stuart Stein Art

Curriculum Committee Chair Meg Algren MCCS

Diversity Committee Chair Nahid Tootoonchi Art

College Leadership

Budget Planning for the 150th Success of Ailey Camp and continuation of

Ailey II

Updates

TU

Turns

150

We ended last year in good fiscal shape. The college

budget this year was flat, the state allocation to the college did not increase. But we have enough to do what we need and much of what we want to do.

Tom Cascella from Theatre is our COFAC liaison to the 150th steering committee. The COFAC 150th committee, which was formed last year, will begin meeting again soon.

AileyCamp was a big success, 50 campers for 2 weeks in summer 2014. We plan to have camp again in 2015, for 4 weeks.

Slide 10 remarks

TSEM faculty group IDFA interdisciplinary team-teaching group Grad student get together New faculty welcome with tickets Recruiting Dean’s blog Faculty exchanges/research in Turkey

New initiatives

TSEM faculty group – Friday, October 17th 2 300-430

(exact time is flexible). An opportunity for all faculty to meet and discuss COFAC-wide TSEM courses. Different courses at the same time for cross-section collaboration, COFAC interdisciplinary TSEMs, brainstorming about new approaches.

IDFA/Team teaching meeting – Friday, November 21st @ 300-430 (exact time is flexible). Open group discussion about overcoming road blocks to team teaching, how to support more interdisciplinary courses. Leadership from recent, successful team teachers and IDFA faculty.

Slide 12 remarks

Creative Alliance Clayworks

COFAC Connections to Community

COFAC helped to support and host the Make it &

Break it Art to Dine for event at the Creative Alliance on September 12th at Skylofts in Highlandtown. This was a successful, sold-out event to learn traditional piñata making and eat authentic Mexican cuisine.

On Saturday, October 18th COFAC will join with Clayworks in Mt. Washington for Firefest. Faculty members Ryan Murray and Phil Davis will provide the music. Rich Holt and Ceramics students will participate. Morgan State ceramics students will participate too.

Slide 14 remarks

On your table, copies of TU 2020 plan and

draft COFAC plan On the wall are posters with brief synopses 10 priorities of COFAC align with TU Suggested goals are listed under each

Priorities and Goals Activity

At your table each person take a card and pick

your top three priorities from the ten in the draft plan

Once you have your three, discuss as a group and pick your top three for the table

Write these three on the card on your table and put into the box for us to collate later

Add your individual cards to the box if you want

10 Priorities

Now take a look at the goals under

each of the priorities

If you brought a write-in goal write it on the post-it pad at your table to use later

Goals

Using your six red dots go to the posters on the wall

Put your dots next to the goals that you think are the most important for COFAC

You can vote for six separate goals or use two, three, or even all six on one goal if you think it is that important

What do you see from what we just did? Take a moment to write down comments for

the suggestion box (Innovator Doug Hall says that reflecting and writing during brainstorming deepens your thinking)

Discussion

If you brought write-in goals now is the time to

add them to the priorities already posted Write on the post-it pad at your table Come to the podium and read aloud to the

group Add to the appropriate priority

Write-in Goals

  Put your gold dots on the goal or goals that

are most important to you personally in your own work at Towson or in your world view.

Next Round

Discussion Feedback Comment cards

Use your blue dots Add blue dots if, after discussion or reflection,

you wish to revisit or rethink your earlier vote for the most important COFAC goals

Final Round

Discussion Feedback Comment cards

Thank you

Thank you to everyone for your participation

We will collate your input and share with everyone

Next steps back to College Council