{"id":412,"date":"2013-10-08T20:42:44","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T01:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/newdean\/?p=412"},"modified":"2013-10-08T20:43:20","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T01:43:20","slug":"the-unbox-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2013\/10\/08\/the-unbox-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"The UnBox Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When asked questions about my vision for the college, I always answer, &#8220;it&#8217;s not so much about my vision for the college, the more important question is about OUR vision for the college.&#8221; I have several structures in place for collaboration and collective decision-making, such as a lots of <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/newdean\/2013\/08\/20\/meetings-with-department-heads\/\" target=\"_blank\">meetings with department heads<\/a>. I&#8217;m in the process of starting a student advisory board (more on that in a post after the first meeting later this month), and recently started the UnBox committee. As you may have guessed from the title (or if you remember a <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/newdean\/2013\/08\/27\/the-unpossible\/\" target=\"_blank\">post about &#8220;The Unpossible&#8221;<\/a>), the charge of the UnBox committee is to brainstorm new and unusual practices. I selected folks who are new to the college or who have reputations for coloring outside of the lines. I have reps from the faculty, non-intructional professional staff, administrative staff, and students (a first year student as well as an upper-division student). The first meeting was mostly about brainstorming ways to get one of my ideas off the ground (the Social Sciences Kaleidoscope; I&#8217;ll elaborate on this in another future post), but in future meetings I&#8217;m sure that they&#8217;ll generate some new possibilities for the college to consider. I&#8217;m looking forward to those gatherings!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When asked questions about my vision for the college, I always answer, &#8220;it&#8217;s not so much about my vision for the college, the more important question is about OUR vision for the college.&#8221; I have several structures in place for collaboration and collective decision-making, such as a lots of meetings with department heads. I&#8217;m in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22221],"tags":[22222,22243],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-organizational-leadership","tag-academic-administration","tag-the-unbox-committee"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":415,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}