工作小组

It may be helpful to note that the five areas represent topical themes that the plan needs to cover. 这一阶段使用的措辞, 小组名称或他们各自的目标如何表述, 会随着我们完成计划而发展吗.

五个工作小组(按字母顺序排列)是:

• 学术工作小组: 确保一个变革性的学术经验
• 财务工作小组(FWG): 让奥施康定处于最强劲的财务轨道上
• Justice、公平、包容 & 多样性工作组: 确保机会公平, 治疗, 以及所有人的结果, (并激活学院的股权 & Justice议程). 
• 洛杉矶工作组(LAWG): Maximizing engagement and mutually beneficial connections with the global city of 洛杉矶.
• 学生的经验 & 社区更新工作小组: Ensuring inclusion, belonging, and a vibrant and engaged student experience.

Groups will be chaired or co-chaired by various steering committee (SC) members and in some cases co-chairs will come from outside of the steering committee. SC联席主席, 还有埃兰总统, will have oversight over all groups and be in 常规的 contact to look for synergy and overlap between groups, and determine when and where adjustments or other actions are needed to ensure effective process and delivery of the plan. 

Below is a brief description of what each Working Group will be addressing, 以及领导每个小组的联合主席的名字. 工作组成员的完整名单将于5月晚些时候更新. 

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学术工作小组

主要目标:  Ensure that Occidental continues to distinguish itself academically by providing a transformational educational experience shaped by our institutional mission and values and our location in a global city. How do we make Oxy an innovative leader in liberal 艺术 education for the future?

主席:

Sharla Fett，教务委员会主席，美国历史教授
Wendy Sternberg, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College

背景/背景: 

• How can Occidental distinguish itself as offering a transformative educational experience, shaped by institutional mission and values and our location in 洛杉矶, 哪些新的跨学科项目让学生兴奋, 获得充满活力的教师队伍, 以及一种与现实世界相关的感觉?
• How does Oxy develop and maintain an educational environment conducive to the success of each and every student? Our ambition is to develop and maintain an educational environment at Occidental in which all students, 教职员工受到欢迎和重视, 每个人都有归属的地方, 茁壮成长，超越自我.
• In the larger universe of so many liberal 艺术 colleges promising academic excellence and access to faculty, 是什么让奥施康定与众不同? 为什么要来这里?
• How do we achieve this goal without spreading ourselves too thin and contributing to an unsustainable workload for 工作人员 and faculty? 

重点领域: 

该工作组将处理以下项目:

• Work with the faculty to develop a proposal (or proposals) for a “shared or common experience” dimension of the curriculum. The idea would be to connect every student meaningfully to some dimension of our global metropolitan area in a way that reflects “new harmonies.”
• 与适当的学院管理机构协调, 制定一个解决教师工作量的综合计划, 补偿, 和组成.
• Consider ways to enhance students' research exposure through the curriculum and co-curriculum
• 与科学部门合作, plan ways to carry forward and amplify STEM initiatives for attracting and retaining majors from traditionally marginalized groups: BIPOC, 第一代和来自资源不足的高中的学生.
• Build collaborations between the academic program and the work of the Hameetman Career Center to help prepare students for fulfilling work lives post-Oxy. More broadly, explore how academic advising and 职业生涯 advice can intersect or be better integrated. Where does the HCC want to be by 2030 to best 支持 student 职业生涯 outcomes?

 

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财务工作小组

主要目标:  Determine how Occidental will achieve financial stability and be in a strong financial position by 2030, 同时忠于我们的使命.

主席:

阿莫斯·希梅尔斯坦，副总裁 & 首席运营官
Amanda Zellmer，生物学副教授

背景/背景:

• The environmental scan pertaining to finances clearly indicates that although the college is not in dire financial straits, current revenue and expense pressures are not moving in favorable directions. 

• 驱动Oxy财务模式的因素有很多. 作为第一步, the financial members of the committee will need to make sure all working group members understand how these various levers affect the operating budget as well as the financial foundation of the College. The Working Group will need to discuss and analyze “which” levers to focus on, “如何”或“到什么程度”可以被修改, 以及由此产生的影响是什么.

考虑到财务对我们所做的一切都至关重要, and the important downstream implications of our choices around certain levers, key questions (described below) must be addressed early in the ISP process:

重点领域:

1. 审查目前的五年预算模式. Ensure the financial working group understands the inputs/levers that inform the model. The team will gain an understanding of the model and a known “baseline” of funds available in the operating budget for strategic investment. 

2. The group should have in-depth discussion of specific levers, including:
   1. 招生 & 学费折扣率: 
   2. 捐赠基金:建立捐赠基金对金融稳定至关重要. 我们渴望有什么样的天赋.g. $1B? 通过当?).  每个学生的禀赋是多少? 实现这些目标需要做些什么?
   3. 费用优先级: 
   4. Alternative Revenue: Can we develop alternative revenue sources that materially impact our financial trajectory? 
3. Develop scenarios to discuss with the trustee working group - including a “recommended” path that will be the ultimate framework for our financial planning going forward. 

同时考虑到上述问题和挑战, this group must broaden its lens to view these issues and solutions through equity and justice considerations and attention to sustainability.

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Justice、公平、包容 & 多样性(JEID)工作组:

主要目标:  确保机会公平, 治疗, 以及所有学生的成果, 工作人员, 以及Oxy的教职员工, 并确保E&J议程和其他JEID战略举措嵌入在ISP中.

主席:

大卫·卡伦·布拉德利，公平事务副总裁 & Justice
Julie Prebel，美国研究副教授

背景/背景:

• 我们设想一个公平的大学 & Justice are infused into the everyday work and lives of faculty, 工作人员 and students.
• 我们设想一个公平的大学 & Justice are recognized as core institutional tenets that inform how we actualize the mission of the College and impact how we determine a vision for the College’s future.
• 我们如何更好地预测未来这些领域的需求?
• E&J议程

重点领域:

• 集成:
  • Partner with the other 工作小组 to ensure that JEID strategic priorities are addressed in the ISP. 参考公平和Justice议程, 特别注意与招聘有关的事项, 招聘, 和保留.
• 教育:
  • Consider, develop, and recommend a model (or models) for a comprehensive and systemic faculty & 工作人员 professional development and education program that is purposeful in building our institutional capacity to address the JEID needs of the College
  • Consider, develop, and recommend a model (or models) to achieve a similar goal for students 
• 招聘 & 招聘:
  • Develop a recommendation for an implementation plan for inclusive and equitable 招聘 for 工作人员, T3教员, and NTT faculty to ensure that diverse representation exists across all units and levels of the College 
• 保留:
  • Develop a recommendation for a comprehensive retention program for faculty and 工作人员 that addresses the systemic injustices inherent in higher education by centering the lived experience of people from marginalized and minoritized groups

 

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洛杉矶工作组

主要目标: How do we maximize engagement and mutually beneficial connections between Oxy and the city of 洛杉矶 for the intellectual, 个人, 以及学生的专业成长, 我们的教职员工，也为了洛杉矶的利益?  How can our relationship to LA serve to amplify our distinct value proposition and differentiate us from our peers?

主席:

玛莎松岗, 副教授, Urban and Environmental Policy; Interim 教师 Director, 社区学习中心
Wendy Sternberg, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the College

BACKGROUND & 背景:

• There is strong belief that Oxy’s location in the global city of 洛杉矶 is one of our most distinguishing characteristics. 环境扫描的结果证实了这一点, but also point to a number of opportunities that we may not be fully realizing. 想想洛杉矶, the areas of opportunity cover a multitude of areas across the College - academic, 学生生活, 职业生涯, 社区参与, 艺术, 金融的机会. 
• Students (and faculty) come to the college expecting a high degree of opportunity to engage and connect with the city in a multitude of ways.  通过这个战略计划的过程, we must seek to maximize engagements and mutually beneficial connections between Oxy and the city of 洛杉矶 for the intellectual, 个人, 以及我们的学生和教师的专业成长, 也为了洛杉矶的利益. Doing so will serve to amplify our distinct value proposition and differentiate us from our peers.
• 在ISP进程开始之前, the faculty committee on community based learning and research (CBLR) began work on envisioning a “Center” two years ago. The CBLR proposal effectively articulates many of the benefits of having a center - e.g. centralizing resources, creating continuity, finding synergy among areas. The CBLR proposal is one important entry point for this ISP working group’s discussion, recognizing that the center can manifest an important mix of direct/indirect 支持 that will elevate and expand our 洛杉矶 engagement. 
• Industry partnerships in LA - It is presumed that there is untapped opportunity to strengthen the College’s relationship with industry partners, particularly the 艺术/creative industries for which LA is a global hub - and that doing so can have multi-dimensional benefits (alumni engagement, 更多学生机会, 教师的研究, 课程增强, 以及潜在的经济/慈善利益).
• It should be noted that not all 洛杉矶 related topics will be addressed by this group. 例如，学生体验 & Renewing Community group will work on how students can better access the city. The Financial Group will explore expanding philanthropy reach in 洛杉矶.  

重点领域

• The ISP 洛杉矶 working group will be charged with furthering and expanding a Center proposal, building on the foundation established in the work of the faculty CLBR committee, 考虑到更新的中心视觉(如上所述). The group will include representation from a wide range of stakeholders, 包括校友, involved in 洛杉矶 engagement (in addition to the representatives/leaders that developed the CLBR proposal).  

 

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学生的经验 & 更新社区工作小组

主要目标:  Ensuring inclusion and belonging, and the most vibrant and engaged student experience

主席:

罗伯·弗洛特，学生事务副主席兼学生主任
Maricela Martinez，临时招生副校长 

背景/背景:

• A range of good student feedback came through the environmental scan and other feedback mechanisms. 一项名为“Oxy说话”的校园气候调查!”) is being fielded this spring and will provide additional student input. Common feedback topics heard from some or many students in our work so far include:
  • Not all Oxy students feel like they belong on this campus and they desire more tools, 支持, 以及他们在学院茁壮成长所需的资源. 
  • A desire to address perceived gaps between promises of a diverse 和包容的 campus and students’ lived experiences.
  • 更容易更好地进入洛杉矶.
  • 额外的健康和保健(精神和身体)支持, 以及为获得这些服务提供更好的协调和信息.
  • Opportunities to upgrade physical facilities and amenities that serve students (e.g. 宿舍、餐厅、建筑、学习空间)
  • A desire to have more spaces that facilitate community (as evidenced by the overwhelming positive reaction to the picnic tables on the quad). 学生们还要求更多的社交项目来建立社区.
• Our ambition is to develop and maintain an educational environment at Occidental in which all students, 教职员工受到欢迎和重视, 他们所属的地方, 茁壮成长，超越自我.

重点领域: 

• 制定一个主动/计划来识别, renovating and/or designating/creating new key student spaces - specifically, 学生宿舍, 社会空间, 和学术共享——以更好地满足当前学生的需求.
• 提出一个计划，以简化学生获得校园服务的方式. 这可能包括建立一个“学生成功中心”。, 数字化目前以纸张为中心的繁琐服务, 新的沟通工具/策略, (e.g., aggregating information/emails about campus events, deadlines, opportunities).
• Identify the tools and resources necessary to consistently offer expanded social programming on campus that is relevant, 常规的, 和包容的. 方案拟订中需要考虑的领域包括:
• Propose initiatives to better 支持 students finding a sense of belonging at Oxy.
• Fully consider how restorative practices and restorative justice can serve to build community and trust, 应对“闪点”, 修复和减少伤害.
• 考虑以下权益的程度 & 司法议程问题应纳入:
  • Developing Community Conversations, Documenting History and Creating Brave Spaces
  • 校园安全
  • 加强对心理健康的关注
  • 促进体育运动的多样性
  • Fortifying the Residential Experience and Continuing Themed Living Communities
  • 支持第一代体验