The next meeting of the Core Working group is scheduled for this afternoon. We will be transitioning from our first planning theme (curriculum) to our second (data).

Here is the meeting agenda:

Core Working Group Meeting
November 1, 2016

Meeting Agenda:

1. Wrap-up curriculum planning theme discussions
   • Individual program syllabi addressing professional development
   • Additional dissertation forms
2. Examine current alumni data collection practices
   • Individual doctoral program methods of tracking and reporting data
   • Institution at-large methods of tracking and reporting data
     – Office of Institutional Research and Effectiveness (Provost’s Office)
     – Office of Career Planning and Professional Development
     – Institutional Research study of 2003-2014 graduates (spring 2015)
3. Discuss possible changes to data collection
   • Sharing data across academic programs
   • Tracking career outcomes for those who leave doctoral programs
   • Best practices for developing an alumni networking database
     – National conversation about data from CGS, NACE, MLA, AHA
4. Further discussion of May 4 event: Town Hall Meeting on Careers in the Humanities