GOAL 4.

To create new undergraduate programs within and across academic disciplines.

Short-term Objectives:

• Determine need for new majors and programs through regional needs assessments, conferences and symposia, assessments of current faculty interests and skills and student surveys.
• Investigate institutional and regional support for major programs in Music, Philosophy, Interdisciplinary Studies, Foreign Languages, and other existing programs.
• Bring all Arts and Sciences departments together to identify and affirm the commonality of these disciplines. Initiate dialog geared toward placing faculty in the classrooms of other than home departments.
• Reexamine cross-disciplinary programs on a continuing basis.
• Provide opportunity for cohesive departmental interactions, e.g., space, calendar, time for study, faculty development money, curriculum development, workload formulae in order to promote program development.

Long-Term Objectives:

• Develop flexible models to help students meet the complexity of futurecareer opportunities.
• Recommend that the core experience of every student include participation in an interdisciplinary course.
• Initiate pilot programs in new interdisciplinary programs.
• Hire new full-time tenure track faculty in support of new majors and programs.