Project Timeline as Outlined in Grant Proposal
Date | Events/Tasks | Responsible Individuals |
August 30, 2016 | Preliminary meeting of the Core Working Group. Goals and purposes:
● Outline priorities and set meeting schedule for the academic year. ● Develop a set of possible curricular changes to share with the Project Steering Committee. Humanities alumni data collection will begin and continue through the academic year. |
Core Working Group |
September 26, 2016 | Inaugural meeting of the Project Steering Committee. Goals and purposes:
● Sharing and discussion of possible curricular changes with the larger group. |
Project Steering Committee |
October 4, 2016 | Core Working Group meeting. Goals and purposes:
● Finalizing curricular change suggestions for sharing with a wider faculty audience in the departments. |
Core Working Group |
November 1, 2016 | Core Working Group meeting. Goals and purposes:
● Inaugural discussion of data collection practices. ● Draft of points and recommendations to be shared with the larger group. |
Core Working Group |
December 6, 2016 | Full meeting of both the Project Steering Committee and the Core Working Group. Goals and purposes:
● Examination of data collection practices. ● Creation of recommendations around data collection. ● Beginning of planning process for the Town Hall Meeting on Careers in the Humanities. |
Core Working Group and Project Steering Committee |
January 17, 2017 | Core Working Group meeting. Goals and purposes:
● Finalize recommendations for data collection practices. ● Inaugural conversation on better partnerships with alumni and employers. Development of recommendations and strategies around this issue. |
Core Working Group |
February 27, 2017 | Third Project Steering Committee meeting. Goals and purposes:
● Sharing of ideas for developing an alumni mentoring database. ● Continued planning for the Town Hall Meeting. ● Presentation of preliminary results of alumni data collection to the full group. |
Project Steering Committee |
March 7, 2017 | Core Working Group meeting. Goals and purposes:
● Continued conversation around partnerships. ● Finalize planning for Town Hall Meeting. |
Core Working Group |
May 2, 2017 | Core Working Group meeting. Goals and purposes:
● Drafting of white paper. |
Core Working Group
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May 4, 2017 | Town Hall Meeting on Careers for Humanists:
● Day-long event featuring speaker and workshops geared toward career development of humanities PhDs. |
Core Working Group and Project Steering Committee
In attendance: additional faculty members, PhD students, and alumni |
June 6, 2017 | Second full meeting of both the Project Steering Committee and the Core Working Group:
● Discussion of white paper draft. Travel of three working group members to the Graduate Career Consortium Meeting. |
Core Working Group and Project Steering Committee |
July 11, 2017 | Core Working Group meeting. Goals and purposes:
● Revision and approval of final draft of white paper. ● Develop an assessment plan for measures recommended in the white paper. |
Core Working Group |