Ken, You've actually asked one of my fundamental questions to the administration: if you want me to have an advisory board, tell me what you intend for it to do. So far, the answer has been that whatever I want the board to do, it can do. I don't find that particularly helpful. So, I thought I'd ask others what their boards did. Larry
________________________________ From: Ken Steele [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tue 9/7/2010 8:21 PM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] Psychology Department Advisory Boards Hi Larry: What is this advisory board supposed to do? We have a strategic planning committee; which is supposed to plan for changes in the future. We have a curriculum committee; which is supposed to plan for modifications in the current curriculum and future curricula. We have committees which evaluate progress towards tenure, choice of textbooks, space-use, psi chi, graduate student issues, and so on. All have concrete charges. But I am unclear as to the goal of an "advisory committee." Is the advice going to the chair or department or college? Ken On 9/7/2010 3:32 PM, Larry Daily wrote: > Good afternoon, TIPSters! > > We just completed a program review last year. One of the > recommendations from the Program Review Committee was to > create a department advisory board (they actually recommended > that for every department that was reviewed). I've gone > through all of the material I own on academic departments > (admittedly limited) and I've searched the APA and APS Web > sites for guidance as best as I could, but I really can't find > much about advisory boards for academic departments. So, could > anyone point me to something that would let me know a) the > structure of such boards and b) the purpose of such boards > (besides "my administration wants us to have one and if we > don't things won't go our way"). If you've had any experience > with an advisory board and are willing to share your insights, > I'd like to hear about that, too. > > Thanks in advance, Larry > > ************************************************************ > Larry Z. Daily Associate Professor of Psychology Psychology > Department Chair > > Department of Psychology Stuzman-Slonaker Hall Room 102-D > Shepherd University Shepherdstown, West Virginia 25443 > Psychology phone: (304) 876-5297 > > email: [email protected] WWW: > http://webpages.shepherd.edu/LDAILY/index.html > --------------------------------------------------------------- Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. [email protected] Professor, Assistant Chairperson, and Other Stuff Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu <http://www.psych.appstate.edu/> Appalachian State University Boone, NC 28608 USA --------------------------------------------------------------- --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13350.560a6a01a9fce179d1d3a1d8d56758a3&n=T&l=tips&o=4674 or send a blank email to leave-4674-13350.560a6a01a9fce179d1d3a1d8d5675...@fsulist.frostburg.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=4680 or send a blank email to leave-4680-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
