Monthly Archives: July 2010

Queen’s News Centre: Videotaped lectures get high marks (19 July 2010)

Posted on 21 July 2010 by mrkjns96

As posted in Queen’s News Centre, 19 July 2010: Students and professors involved in testing classroom technology that video-captured and posted lectures to a shared website report the pilot project was a success.

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Roberta Lamb: Open Letter to the “Academic Writing Team” (19 July 2010)

Posted on 20 July 2010 by mrkjns96

Queen’s University is known for the quality of its teaching and its research; therefore, I wonder why the academic planning exercise does not follow procedures for academic planning and/ or strategic planning that are recommended by the research literature in … Continue reading →

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QSERAP: Open Letter II to the “Academic Writing Team” (Professors Adams, Bryant, Chan, Nossal, Scott, and Smol) (16 July 2010)

Posted on 16 July 2010 by mrkjns96

“a genuine academic plan needs to be constructed by the whole community from the ground up” (Open Letter I, 28 May 2010) Dear Professors Adams, Bryant, Chan, Nossal, Scott, and Smol, Thank you for holding your first consultative meeting on … Continue reading →

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Report on the Consultative Meeting with Queen’s “Academic Writing Team” (12 July 2010)

Posted on 14 July 2010 by mrkjns96

By Mark Jones I attended the consultative meeting with the “Academic Writing Team” (Kim Nossal, John Smol, Jill Scott, Michael Adams, Yolande Chan, and Tim Bryant), 10 to 11:30 a.m. on July 12.

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Queen’s News Centre: Academic Plan process extended (5 July 2010)

Posted on 5 July 2010 by mrkjns96

As posted in Queen’s News Centre, 5 July 2010: The timeline for developing and finalizing the university’s Academic Plan is being expanded by several months into 2011 to promote “wide discussion and consultation” over the upcoming fall and winter terms.

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Principal’s Update to Queen’s Faculty on Academic Planning (30 June 2010)

Posted on 1 July 2010 by mrkjns96

Sent by email from Principal Daniel Woolf to Queen’s Faculty, June 30, 2010: Dear Queen’s Community, On April 23rd, I sent a spring Update on Academic Planning to students, faculty and staff to explain the process leading to an Academic … Continue reading →

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QSERAP Members Discuss Planning with Principal Woolf (23 June 2010)

Posted on 1 July 2010 by mrkjns96

Dear Queen’s Community, As representatives of Queen’s Students and Employees for Real Academic Planning, we met with Principal Woolf on June 23 to discuss the academic planning exercise.

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QSERAP: Open Letter to Professors Adams, Bryant, Chan, Nossal, Scott, and Smol (28 May 2010)

Posted on 1 July 2010 by mrkjns96

Dear Professors Adams, Bryant, Chan, Nossal, Scott, and Smol, We are encouraged by your expressions of your determination “to gather the thoughts of the Queen’s community” and to heed “the major tones that people are speaking” as you begin your … Continue reading →

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Agenda for an “Academic Planning” Meeting with Principal Woolf (27 May 2010)

Posted on 1 July 2010 by mrkjns96

Representatives from Queen’s Students and Employees for Real Academic Planning will meet with Principal Woolf in June to discuss Academic Planning issues raised by the students’ and employees’ petitions to the Board of Trustees last April 30-May 1. At Principal … Continue reading →

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Queen’s Gazette: Academic writing team “here to listen” (25 May 2010)

Posted on 1 July 2010 by mrkjns96

Queen’s Gazette, 25 May 2010 Six faculty members will be spending the summer listening to the views and ideas of faculty, students and staff, and identifying “themes that resonate” as part of the yearlong academic planning process.

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Queen’s Journal: Personal Guidance is Key (18 May 2010)

Posted on 1 July 2010 by mrkjns96

Academic planning should focus on professors and students, not idle change By Paul Hogan, Queen’s Journal, Tuesday, May 18, 2010 Principal Daniel Woolf released his academic vision statement “Where Next?” on Jan. 15. As a part-time student pursuing my undergrad … Continue reading →

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Whig Standard: Queen’s Trainwreck Coming? (5 May 2010)

Posted on 1 July 2010 by mrkjns96

Letter to the Editor, Kingston Whig Standard, 5 May 2010. By: Mark Jones Daniel Woolf says of the “Academic Planning” process at Queen’s: “The train hasn’t left the station, it’s still boarding” (Group questions money woes, Whig Standard, 1 May … Continue reading →

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Whig Standard: Group Questions Money Woes (1 May 2010)

Posted on 1 July 2010 by mrkjns96

Petitions bearing 1,000 names to be presented to school’s Board of Trustees, University Council Whig Standard, 1 May 2010 A group of Queen’s University students and staff is hoping its petitions over what it sees as looming budget cuts and … Continue reading →

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Petition Presented to Board of Trustees (1 May 2010)

Posted on 1 July 2010 by mrkjns96

Dear Colleagues: Two hundred and eleven of us signed the Petition from Queen’s Employees for Real Academic Planning in time for presentation to the Board of Trustees.

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Queen’s Employees’ Petition to the Board of Trustees (1 May 2010)

Posted on 1 July 2010 by mrkjns96

The “Academic Planning exercise” initiated by Principal Daniel Woolf’s document “Where Next? Toward a University Academic Plan” has different implications for different segments of the Queen’s community. For instance, it may well be that some disciplines with professional programs that … Continue reading →

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Queen’s Students’ Petition to the Board of Trustees (1 May 2010)

Posted on 1 July 2010 by mrkjns96

We, the students of Queen’s University, petition the Board of Trustees to cancel the undemocratic academic planning process that is underway. We furthermore urge the Board to halt the budget cuts that have prompted this rushed restructuring of our university.

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