Thursday, February 21, 2008

Reaccreditation Committee - Team 5 Meeting - Monday, Feb 18th

The Reaccreditation meeting for "Building a Welcoming, Respectful, and Empowered UW-Madison Community" met this Monday the 18th. This was our last official "retreat" meeting.
First, we broke up into groups and discussed what the "Wisconsin Experience" is for everyone on campus. We looked at the document that relates to students and talked about how we could change it to include faculty and staff.
Then we discussed first-year experiences and how we could potentially create a program for new faculty and staff on campus. My group brought up the idea of creating small groups of facstaff what will work together in the first year to learn and experience the UW and Madison. Other ideas were shared at the end which included a "Passport," which would be a document that all new facstaff would have to fill out in their first year with outside events.
Since this was out last formal meeting, we decided to meet every Wednesday at 3:30 in the Microcosm Cafe to talk about the next steps. I will try to make it to these coffee sessions, and will keep Shared Gov updated.

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