Chair, Members, Advisory, Liaison
Carol Rifelj, Chair
Eric Davis
Jason Arndt
Kathy Morse
Eric Nelson
Mike Olinick
Chris Watters
Bob Huth
Andy Wentink
Alison Byerly, member and liaison
Franci Farnsworth, advisory on grants
Shel Sax, advisory on technology
Charge to Task Force
Identify ways to better ensure that faculty time and energies are focused on the primary teaching and scholarship missions of the facultyConsider ways in which a reduction in the student-faculty ratio could increase faculty time for teaching, mentoring of students, and scholarship and artistic production; give careful assessment of costs and tradeoffsReassess structure of the leave program to ensure that it best meets our goals for faculty research and developmentIdentify needs in the area of support for faculty development and faculty scholarship and artistic performanceConsider ways in which the College can continue to take advantage of emerging technologies in teaching while balancing that use with the human dimension of our teachingConsult, as appropriate, with the Task Force on the Curriculum in the Liberal Arts