Just finishing up the main stage and waiting for people to join us.

Jasmin!

And Steven!

yes Jasmin got promoted!

(also Dori)

=)

Got my coffee, ready to rock

Anthea

Sorry, slow this morning...needz more coffeeeeeee….

gosh, excuses already Marshall? ;)

lol

Thanks to the Working Group's efforts!!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NzkuTH0_zoHlNbqvikgh-U4_ufGbu7-X/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=113198495999936210233&rtpof=true&sd=true

Love all this! Excellent work by everyone on this committee!

Understanding multiple histories is absolutely key in the arts industries at this time. So important for our graduates to be both prepared to enter their industry as it currently exists and to also be changemakers.

I still feel like the year 2000 was, like, just a few years ago.

How can we leverage this for accreditation?

That's a great question

@h.powell -- this is why I think we can include it in the Program Goals that each unit. If those reports are being reviewed by accrediting bodies and evaluated, then it is captured and recorded on a regular basis.

Agree, Tiza!

Thanks Tiza and Jenny! I feel like if we can more readily merge the two since we have to report and modify SLOs periodically. Just wonderings…

*program SLOs

Do we need to think also in terms of competencies for people who are not necessarily going to go into careers that relate to their majors?

^^^ Fantastic question, Melissa!

^^^yes Melissa!

Great question, Melissa. I hope that some of these competencies will address folks no matter where they go, but that's definitely something that we could address more directly.

We are masters of order and chaos

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^In the Business, Entrepreneurship, and Career Preparedness session this morning I learned that arts majors are significantly more likely to have entrepreneurial careers than other majors.

Yes, so much project management in all that we do!

I appreciate Melissa's comment. I think that helps become part of helping the rest of campus understand what we do

I suspect that many/most of these goals are already being accomplished in one form or another in our programs. What will need to be done is for the area faculty to document where, exactly, they are happening, perhaps through a program matrix such as Marshall mentioned.

Project management, time management, creative problem solving, and presentation

Very heavy emphasis on combining soft skills and hard skills

^^^yes@Bill!

I have added to my intro-level class a whole module on finding work in all of its forms. It is by far the most popular module I have

@Bill, yes, absolutely! It's a great opportunity for units to engage in curriculum mapping

Agreed, Bill. I see this as very manageable. I see no fear in it, from my point of view.

@Eben I would love to see that and include it in early costume curriculum

I learn that students struggle with this idea that college is separate from professional life. I try to encourage them to reframe their POV, rather than check all the "real work skills" boxes. everyone's idea of the real world is different.

One thing we deal with in the animation program at DW is that our students are competing with students from art schools with longer and more rigorous programs. So teaching them professional skills on how to operate in the industry, allows them to immediately become hirable and how to navigate the competition while they improve their skills post college

Agreed, we do the work. We can do better helping students understand how what they learn is applicable to the "real" world

help students shift from extrinsic to intrinsic motivations

The BECP committee's upcoming report will resonate beautifully with this conversation....they have started good work tracking what is happening in that arena already across the college....

@sarah Sure! Lets chat some time! Its a part that still changes every semester, but it specifically gets called out as a high point in my evals

@ eben, yes!

@Tiza, yes, as another person that does programmatic reporting, this is manageable.

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FYI that UF Humanities Center's Assistant Director for Graduate Engagement (new hire - Dr. Sara Agnelli) is actively working on trainings for things like CV translation for the humanistic areas of the arts. #EnvisionHumanities https://envision.humanities.ufl.edu/

It also seems like great information for parents who may disagree with their child's desire to major in an arts discipline - so helpful in recruiting and retention of students

@piper Yeah, this is a big roadblock for some of my students

IMANI!!

@piper I've got a very promising student in engineering who would rather work entertainment, but his parents pay the bills

Thank you for your work on this--it is so valuable and important. I'm excited to continue the dialogue!

Same here @eben. I teach animation and imagine parents learning their kid wants to major in cartoons haha! Obviously is a very rewarding and huge industry but yes. Arts struggle with this.

and equip the student with the information to convince parents

Yes Steven. and Michelle....Assessment …. particularly nimble, communicable....that lives in the teaching and learning community is what would make the whole thing come to life....

This could be included as a level in the Academic Learning Compact by providing a curriculum map with these goals. That will also put it on the website.

SLO’s are updated to document programmatic changes. That’s the easy part. Michelle's point of SEEING , ARTICULATING and the earlier point of shifting the POV s important !

Great suggestion Joan (Hi!)

yes Joan and Piper!

Ack…. Imani… we didn't get you comment!

^^^Terrific work thank you!

Thank you so much to the committee!

Thank you!

Thanks for the session. great facilitation. .

THANKYOU

Thanks!

Thank you