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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Pardon the typo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I welcome input from the Undergrad Recruitment Committee when Matt presents next week and/or in the interim as you all would like to discuss formally or informally among yourselves and prepare for a more directed
discussion when the time comes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Plsfaculty <plsfaculty-bounces@list.cals.arizona.edu> on behalf of "Brown, Judith K - (jkbrown)" <JBrown@ag.arizona.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, March 20, 2024 at 4:47 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"Beilstein, Mark A - (mbeilstein)" <mbeilstein@arizona.edu><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"Mclain, Jean - (mclainj)" <mclainj@arizona.edu>, "Plsfaculty@list.cals.arizona.edu" <Plsfaculty@list.cals.arizona.edu>, "Staten, Michael E - (statenm)" <statenm@arizona.edu>, "Chorover, Jon - (chorover)" <chorover@arizona.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Plsfaculty] [CATMAIL] Ad hoc Curriculum Re-Imagined Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This is the way i’d like to proceed Mark. Please go with the flow.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Your committee and the curriculum committee have
<span style="color:red">there (sic) their </span>hands full right now and i wanted to start the ball rolling before the summer break. Your committee and undergrad curriculum committee will have the lion’s share of the work to arrive at the final plan after
the faculty have time to brainstorm. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I’ve summarized the background and charge for now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Judy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Plsfaculty <plsfaculty-bounces@list.cals.arizona.edu> on behalf of "Brown, Judith K - (jkbrown)" <JBrown@ag.arizona.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, March 20, 2024 at 4:47 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"Beilstein, Mark A - (mbeilstein)" <mbeilstein@arizona.edu><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"Mclain, Jean - (mclainj)" <mclainj@arizona.edu>, "Plsfaculty@list.cals.arizona.edu" <Plsfaculty@list.cals.arizona.edu>, "Staten, Michael E - (statenm)" <statenm@arizona.edu>, "Chorover, Jon - (chorover)" <chorover@arizona.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Plsfaculty] [CATMAIL] Ad hoc Curriculum Re-Imagined Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">This is the way i’d like to proceed Mark. Please go with the flow.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Your committee and the curriculum committee have there hands full right now and i wanted to start the ball rolling before the summer break. Your committee and undergrad curriculum committee will have the
lion’s share of the work to arrive at the final plan after the faculty have time to brainstorm.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I’ve summarize the background and charge for now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Judy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Mark A Beilstein <mbeilstein@arizona.edu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, March 20, 2024 at 3:57 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"Brown, Judith K - (jkbrown)" <JBrown@ag.arizona.edu><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"Plsfaculty@list.cals.arizona.edu" <Plsfaculty@list.cals.arizona.edu>, "Mclain, Jean - (mclainj)" <mclainj@arizona.edu>, "Staten, Michael E - (statenm)" <statenm@arizona.edu>, "Chorover, Jon - (chorover)" <chorover@arizona.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [CATMAIL] Ad hoc Curriculum Re-Imagined Committee<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Judy,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for the response. I guess I'm still confused as to the need for an ad hoc committee when existing committees already are tasked with addressing our curriculum at the undergraduate and graduate levels - a fact you noted in your response.
There is also an Undergraduate Recruitment Committee tasked with increasing enrollment in our courses and majors. It would be good to understand more about how you envision this committee contributing and coordinating with existing committees. You've listed
a number of urgent issues in your email and these sound like the basis of a much more involved discussion among our faculty. I again request more information beyond a simple introduction of the new ad hoc committee at our faculty meeting. My GSPC update will
be brief and since Matt Jenks cannot attend I assume there will be time for a robust discussion and brainstorming which should involve our entire faculty. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Since the entire faculty are copied here, I will let others indicate whether they agree and would like to hear more about the topics you outlined in your email, as well as ways in which you expect the new ad hoc committee to address them.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Mar 20, 2024 at 2:23<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span>PM Brown, Judith K - (jkbrown) <<a href="mailto:JBrown@ag.arizona.edu" target="_blank">JBrown@ag.arizona.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi Mark</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I’m pleased to know you’re reading the emails. To economize on time at faculty meeting this week, i planned on introducing the topic briefly during
announcements, and and ask Barry who is Chairing/Matt-co-chairing for a very brief update, given the ad hoc committee has only initiated their study. When completed, the committee will present a summary and recommendations for further brainstorming and discussion
at our meeting in May, which is as noted, is on the agenda for the May faculty meeting. If there is sufficient interest to meet in greater detail before summer break (coming quickly), a half day or more could be devoted to the topic to set the stage for an
action plan to be taken up by the Grad Program-Curriculum and Undergrad Curriculum Committee. I discussed this possibility briefly with Ramin and Shelley who both have been involved in past discussions and revamping, as does Samantha, somewhat more recently.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I’ll provide a preview. Based on UA and national concerns among universities, enrollment is expected to decline soon and in the future. We have been
asked to begin strategic review of our curriculum and align for present and future needs. One immediate need is to envision which courses are the highest priorities – core/required courses and faculty resources available to teach those courses. Goals are
to make our courses more appealing to students, increase enrollment as is possible, and brand/market our degree programs to highlight our unique positioning in arid crops and abiotic/biotic stresses, as well as fundamentals of plant sciences and plant pathology.
This is in line with urgent students’ requests to offer required courses annually, among others. This is in line with an analogous mandate from Dean Burgess to increase overall course enrollment and Mike Staten’s request to either top teaching low enrollment
courses or arrive at a strategic-creative solutions to retain w/ greater enrollment numbers. Likewise, we are asked to remove caps on courses because this can restrict enrollment. Increased enrollment could lead to resources such as TA’s or graders for example,
also to be considered as we re-imagine our grad and undergrad curriculum.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">We’ve heard most of this already based on memos and zoom/live meetings. The urgency also presents itself given the loss of at least 14% of our faculty
FTE because of the current and near-future budget shortfalls. We do not anticipate these latter positions to be filled. As retirements ensue, the understanding now is that those positions likewise will not be filled. It has therefore become our responsibility
of the SPLS faculty to review/develop/revise and execute a viable curriculum for our current students and one that will appeal to future students recruited into our majors and considering shared majors enrollment as well. This is my take on it.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The discussion planned for our May meeting is intended to pave the way to next steps in brainstorming and discussion and to guide the curriculum committees/Undergrad
and Grad to fully develop the curriculum, sequencing, re-branding and complete this task before fall 2024 deadlines for revising or creating new course syllabi. Potentially viable strategies (similar) have been developed in the past when faced with budget
cuts or to address other strategic modifications, but most have apparently not made it out of the gate. Ramin reminded me of such discussions and has offered to assist when the time comes. He is attempting to locate those documents or PPT presentations that
could save time and potentially avoid completely re-inventing the wheel. </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">When i planned the Agenda for Friday, i was aware you’d be occupied with recruitment activities-follow up so initially did not include you for an
update this week, but both because it is timely, and Matt Jenks has a conflict, you’ll have a slot on the agenda this week. This will offer an opportunity to apprise on the status of grad recruitment and any other relevant items from committee activities
(please see the revised agenda). Gentle reminder to place updated Guidance documents for Grad Program Committee and Grad Curriculum. Also, when was the Grad Curriculum last reviewed/discussed, and who might know the whereabouts of the outcomes and recommendations,
also useful as we move forward. </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I attach the revised Agenda for Friday and the SPLS 2024 strategic plan for everyone’s consideration as documents are revised and we plan for the
near-present and future success of SPLS graduate and undergraduate academic programs.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Thanks,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Judy</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black">Mark A Beilstein <<a href="mailto:mbeilstein@arizona.edu" target="_blank">mbeilstein@arizona.edu</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, March 20, 2024 at 12:11 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"Brown, Judith K - (jkbrown)" <<a href="mailto:JBrown@ag.arizona.edu" target="_blank">JBrown@ag.arizona.edu</a>><br>
<b>Cc: </b>"Arnold, Betsy - (fungi)" <<a href="mailto:Arnold@ag.arizona.edu" target="_blank">Arnold@ag.arizona.edu</a>>, "Baltrus, David A - (baltrus)" <<a href="mailto:baltrus@arizona.edu" target="_blank">baltrus@arizona.edu</a>>, "Schumaker, Karen S - (schumake)"
<<a href="mailto:schumake@arizona.edu" target="_blank">schumake@arizona.edu</a>>, "Bucksch, Alexander - (bucksch)" <<a href="mailto:bucksch@arizona.edu" target="_blank">bucksch@arizona.edu</a>>, "Woodson, Jesse D - (jessewoodson)" <<a href="mailto:jessewoodson@arizona.edu" target="_blank">jessewoodson@arizona.edu</a>>,
"Mcmahon, Michelle M - (mcmahonm)" <<a href="mailto:mcmahonm@arizona.edu" target="_blank">mcmahonm@arizona.edu</a>>, "Palanivelu, Ravishankar - (rpalaniv)" <<a href="mailto:rpalaniv@arizona.edu" target="_blank">rpalaniv@arizona.edu</a>>, "Yadegari, Ramin -
(yadegari)" <<a href="mailto:yadegari@arizona.edu" target="_blank">yadegari@arizona.edu</a>>, "Orchard, Samantha - (orchard)" <<a href="mailto:orchard@arizona.edu" target="_blank">orchard@arizona.edu</a>>, "Pauli, William Duke - (dukepauli)" <<a href="mailto:dukepauli@arizona.edu" target="_blank">dukepauli@arizona.edu</a>>,
"Jenks, Matthew - (jenksm)" <<a href="mailto:jenksm@arizona.edu" target="_blank">jenksm@arizona.edu</a>>, "Wickramage, Amritha S - (amritha)" <<a href="mailto:amritha@arizona.edu" target="_blank">amritha@arizona.edu</a>>, "Mclain, Jean - (mclainj)" <<a href="mailto:mclainj@arizona.edu" target="_blank">mclainj@arizona.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[CATMAIL] Ad hoc Curriculum Re-Imagined Committee</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Ravi and I noticed on the proposed agenda for the May 17th faculty meeting that an ad hoc Curriculum Re-Imagined Committee will present findings. This is the first we've heard of
this committee and we would like to hear more about the committee's charge and responsibilities. I request that you add an agenda item at the faculty meeting on Friday, March 22 to update the faculty. In particular, members of our committees would like to
know more about how the responsibilities for this ad hoc committee are distinct from the existing GSP and Curriculum Committees. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Members of these committees are copied here. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Best,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Mark and Ravi<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Mark Beilstein, Ph.D.<br>
Associate Professor</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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