Campus Concept Committee

March 30, 2005

Submitted by David Hill

1) Updates
a) Steel for the Campus Center will begin to arrive next week; the
frameword construction will take a couple of months
b) The bid for Mahar Hall windows came in under bid; the project will
be done over the next two summers
c) Design and configuration plans for the interim Park and Wilber work
are nearing completion—specifically the Dean’s suite in Wilber and the
move for the graphics lab to Lanigan
d) CELT should be moving in the next week or so
e) Sheldon and Poucher are well into the construction phase
f) There has been a successful bid on Swetman West; exterior
construction begins this summer, with interior work to begin January
2006; there will be phased relocations beginning in summer and running
through to the final clear-out in January. No classes will be scheduled
in the building after this term.

2) Library Visioning Committee
The President will convene a committee with the tentative charge to
study and explore the nature of libraries in the 21st century. A second
group will construct a program plan for this vision the first group
will produce. The first group will take about a year to complete its
work; the second group will begin to act then—funding for changes will
be available in a couple of years.

3) Science Planning Group
The group is addressing goals 1 and 2 of the Kaleidoscope project—1) a
culture of undergraduate research, 2) fostering of interdisciplinary
interactions among students and faculty.
    Timelines: First, define clusters (Molecular Biology/Biochemistry
cluster beginning as a pilot project this fall—lab equipment and
faculty offices being concentrated in a space in Snygg). Second,
prioritize projects and initiate a program study (Fall 05-Jan 06), The
program study should take a year or two, with three or four years until
construction, although other pilot projects may be undertaken before
that time.

4) Calendar: April 13: International Ed; April 27: Discuss science
proposal, CCIT design. Perhaps a meeting May 13?