Monthly Archives: March 2010

Queen’s Journal: Talking hybrid learning models (26 March 2010)

By Holly Tousignant, Queen’s Journal, 26 March 2010: Students, faculty and administration discuss a potential move to virtualized learning A pilot project from the Principal’s Taskforce on Virtualization put two different models of virtualization into practice this past year.

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Motion for Faculty Board (26 March 2010)

By Roberta Lamb and Mark Jones, as posted in QUFA Forum, 29 March 2010. [All Academic Units were required to respond to the Principal’s Vision Statement, Where Next?, with planning recommendations by April 15.

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Top-down Destructive “Planning” in Arts and Science (21 Mar. 2010)

By Frank Burke, as posted in QUFA Forum, 21 Mar. 2010. The so-called academic planning exercise in the Faculty of Arts and Science continues to be top-down, rushed, and financially driven–hence not academic at all.

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Objections to the Faculty of Arts and Science Draft Response to Principal’s Vision Statement (18 March 2010): Some Highlights (21 March 2010)

By Mark Jones, as posted in QUFA Forum, 21 March 2010. This piece responds to Draft 2 of the FAS response to Principal Woolf’s “Where Next?” I’ve asked colleagues to come to Faculty Board on Friday to help reject the … Continue reading

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Faculty of Arts and Science – Draft Response to Principal’s Vision Statement (18 March 2010)

This is the second of five drafts which were circulated to Unit Heads in the Faculty of Arts and Science on 11, 18, and 25 March and on 5 and 15 April. It is reproduced here because it is the … Continue reading

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An Open Letter to Principal Woolf (15 March 2010)

As posted in QUFA Forum, 15 March 2010: From: Johanne Bénard (Head of Department of French Studies) Lynda Jessup (Director of the Graduate Program in Cultural Studies) Clarke Mackey (Head of Department of Film and Media) Clive Robertson (Acting Head … Continue reading

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Queen’s News Centre: Academic Plan drafting committee in place (3 March 2010)

As posted in Queen’s News Centre, 3 March 2010: Six Queen’s academics will draft the university’s Academic Plan this summer.

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