Facilitator S Report Form

FACILITATOR’S REPORT FORM Five College Department and Program Chairs’ Meeting Saturday, October 3, 2015 Amherst College

PLEASE RETURN TO NATE THERIEN, FIVE COLLEGES, INC. BY OCTOBER 16, 2015 VIA CAMPUS MAIL (OR BY EMAIL TO [email protected] ; SUBJECT LINE: CHAIRS’ REPORT)

Department/Program: ______Facilitator: ______

Session participants: ______

Five College Collaboration The Deans would appreciate your thoughts on the following:

 What do you see as the major obstacles facing your departments and your institutions when they seek to recruit, hire and retain faculty members of color? Are there ways we can address these challenges through collaboration?

 What additional study away or language learning opportunities (domestic or international) would enrich curricular opportunities for students in your field? Would these be year-long, semester-long, short-term or summer? Do you have any specific suggestions for exploration or development?  Do you have other suggestions for collaborative support and development of curriculum, staffing or faculty research, scholarship and other creative work? Or suggestions for improving existing collaborations?

 The Deans encourage cross-campus meetings of departments and other disciplinary groups for planning. Would you like support for such meetings? If so, when and with whom?

 Do you anticipate responding to any of the current Five College Requests for Proposals— or do you have any questions about them: Innovative Language Teaching (which includes support for projects integrating language learning and other disciplinary study), Concept Papers for Expanding Collaboration, Blended Learning in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences, Blended Learning (any field), Five College 50th Anniversary Projects, Faculty Seminar Groups, Five College Lectures)?

Other Information to Share

The Deans hope chairs and program directors will share with one another information regarding staffing and curricular planning: new hires, plans for borrowing faculty members (either as overtime borrows or one-for one exchanges), searches underway, anticipated retirements, curricular gaps, priority fields for future tenure track/long-term searches.