INFORMATION THAT WE'LL WANT ON JAN 12TH:

1. Identity:
- examples from our peer institutions 
- who collaborates with whom
- who publishes with whom
- who belongs to what centers
- what groups do grad students work with
- what faculty work with people in other depts
- what faculty work with people in other universities
- who has what grants 
- who has which grad students
- how are they supported
- where are the research dollars (agencies/industry, areas; CISE synopsis)
- a TWIF synopsis?

2. 'CS+X':
- definititions and examples 
- what our peer institutions have done in regard to this
- who are those peers?

3. Enrollment trends: 
- majors
- for which courses?
- of nonmajors in our courses?
- and their projected effect on the budget...

4. Curriculum:
- what our peer institutions have done in regard to this (esp. Cornell)
- who teaches what classes

5. Student Focus Group: 

I've convened one.  What info would we like from them?

- what do you like about the curriculum?

- what don't you like about the curriculum?

- what SHOULD the curriculum look like????

Here's a condensed version of what the COMM dept asked in a 8/05
student focus group:

- "If someone asked you 'what are you learning from your major,'
what would you tell them?"

- "What COMM courses have most influenced the way that you think
about communication?  How have they influenced you?"

- "What does a challenging academic experience mean to you?  What is
the difference between a difficult course and an academically
challenging course?  What characteristics make a challenging course
challenging?"

- A longish question about role and importance of reading in COMM
courses, which we could usefully adapt to address programming.

- "Tell us about a major assignment in a COMM course where you worked
hard and felt you really learned something...what was it about that
assignment that made it a meaningful learning experience?"