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In the University of Maryland Strategic Plan
transforming Maryland lies a core value for the institution
the great universities of the twenty first century the world-class
institutions maybe there was willing and able to partner with others to achieve
more than any single institution organization could on its own
beginning in two thousand thirteen
Maryland would join the Committee on Institutional Cooperation,
a consortium of Big Ten-member universities,
plus the University of Chicago
half a century
class research institutions have advanced academic missions
generated unique opportunities for students and faculty
and served the common good functioning expertise
leveraging campus resources
and collaborating on innovative programs
with the combined nine billion dollars in annual research
the member institutions batters in a powerhouse of the top universities
a super university
opportunities for collaboration and for real impact lie ahead
this is research matters
the committee on institutional cooperation.
Welcome to Research Matters. I'm Don Kettle,
Dean of the School Public Policy at the University of Maryland, and your host for
this program.
The national athletic landscape changed in November when the University of
Maryland and Rutgers University announced they would be joining the Big
Ten Conference.
Most of the media coverage concentrated on athletics,
but for those of us at Maryland, a big benefit will be in academics
to the Big Ten's academic farm, the Committee on Institutional Cooperation,
or The CIC.
The move to the Big Ten provides lots of benefits for the University of Maryland
faculty and students
in research and teaching in administration and the fact is the topic
for this program
Very pleased to welcome the College Park woman responsible for leaving a
directing collaborative academic programs
across all of a member universities the director of the sea icy barber defend
allib
we're also joined by our very own Senior Vice President Mary Ann Rankin,
and finally our Dean of Libraries and one-time member of the CIC
deferred institution with a somewhat respectable basketball team Indiana,
Dean Patricia Steele.
Welcome to all of our panelists today before it would be going to start
with you if i could
there are literally hundreds of programs and hundreds of collaborations with
existing there
which do you think of early often the most potential for the kind of new
partnership the rebuilding
between them
and see i see and the big ten bright well at first like to say we're really
excited to left on the maryland and
um... this is my first trip to campus i'll be back facing to with my senior
team to meet lots of people so just want to say how
how very excited we are about bringing into the fold in fact
so excited that you'll be coming into the c_a_c_ eight-year before you come in
depict n_f_l_ prince so they didn't want to wait to the starting gate terrific
looks great the apso
uh... a couple things occur to me that were repealed be bringing some
significant value to the rest of the institutions right away one of them has
to do with language acquisition
so we're working on a project across the c_a_c_ to uh... enhance the number of
language offerings available on any campus together we teach a hundred and
twenty less commonly taught languages but the most anyone keepers teaches an
average year be between thirty and sixty so i working together
for more than a global exactly like the city
maryland has quite a reputation and you know
and uh... language acquisition research and linguistics the sorts of things so
we won in date with you all very soon i think in fact even before july uh... to
work on this matter fact today some faculty were gathered at the university
of iowa where they had to cancel the meeting because of the blizzard so
language faculty at gathered there to talk about how we believe the separate
so then i think that's
an area where
um... maryland will be
engaging us
with this quickly
will be able to release courses out to your students uh...
hopefully in two thousand sports was great because the as you say that
no one campus could possibly
offer all these courses but by combining our forces combining offers fossil
deliver institutions any state anywhere has access to the courses everywhere
exactly
so that's one that's a program where we're
really kidding summer maintenance
energy again where i think maryland who helped us about
advance that
other areas where you
uh... bring your particular expertise would worked very excited that you're
engaged in in the library spat has been a leader in the c_a_c_ in the past and
so i think we'll see
um...
energy there are information technology infrastructure were
really looking forward to talking with your staff about how that rollout will
go
and finally in faculty uh... leadership in faculty development since that's an
area that sorry interested going for us i think that you know the students are
they asking about study abroad opportunities that was
i met with stigma steiger yesterday and that's the first question
and come would go to study abroad opportunities to rethink the most it's
going to have a
perhaps not availble mary well art
c_i_a_ c institutions have increase whereby
students can any
institution within the csc have access to
any other institutions study abroad connections so
yet will expand ours
dramatically i think it would expanding universities for very dramatically
so the students wanna know experience the specifics of do you know i don't
know where are they got a telecon outline
wind
uh... housing
starts getting all those questions as to who has a right it was i turned out that
the very purpose of low is really ask you to take the lead in trying to phrase
partnerships and
dishes study abroad of the of the programs at the top of your list
that would certainly is because i think it's exit
something we were trying to do locally anyway uh... we have a new uh... vice
president in charge of bathtub international
studies and he's just gung-ho dept
really push on all fronts there so this is a perfect connection for him really
immediately and
increases his portfolio
but i think you know some other areas uh... at undergraduate research is that
not everyone that's really a big focus here
we can plug into opportunities i think across the csc that'll be great
research for opportunities for graduate students
connections that
wonderful
csc universities
expand our graduate student access to
resources
gary dramatically online ink we haven't even
had the time to look into the specifics there and realized how dramatically if i
know that it's use
seditious
all kinds of opportunites with the leadership one is one that i personally
because i couldn't see already here i mean new to the provost out here but
i think we need more leadership training here and i think it's one of the things
that
i was they need to do
anyway and now i can tell you have to do this if you talk about that that would
put kind of leaders are we talking about training
and while we're talking about you leaving for example for chairman when
when out faculty member gets
chosen
asked are bigoted to be its earnings
up warranting are necessity here associate provost you walk into a job
assuming you accept it
uh... one day you are just a faculty member in don't know the answers to any
of these questions
the next eight years that
person who's listed on the answers
and yours first also know how to supervised staff which are not
necessarily the same as your research group and
you know you name it
there are two and then there are business issues that all this and you're
supposed to understand don't teach them initially may never have seen the accord
i'm speaking for personal spirit is the chairman of let right the buck stops
with the u_n_
endures also started
find out things about your colleagues you never wanted to know i i don't know
how to take up but that's about it but i think i have ever thought of the senate
unfortunately hasn't worked out there to programs that will be i worked with you
on alfred where so one of them is
that's propelling secular mister seminar so this is a three-day boot camp
missus berry and said you send your new department
chair sir have then column in your university and they learn how to put the
budget together and how to negotiate with you first administration and to
accomplished uh... objective c sorts of things that's a little three-day
bootcamp the others who were extensive leadership development for faculty who
your grooming four leadership positions on your campus who who may inspire
canteen surplus themselves
each campus select six fellows per year
and how we convene them three times on three different c_a_c_ campuses for
three days
say you meet with the president at that
institution that's hosting the problems
people from the board of regents and here from the chief financial officer so
you're really learning how to be research university is funded operated
what the future looks like for that enterprise
and your meeting immediately this group uh...
uh... fallows you will
be your supportive
peers
over the life of your university leadership itself over the course of
many years hundreds of faculty of gone through this in the c_a_c_ many of our
own probe artists
come through the program in earlier years and now are presents a purpose
indiana's so
yeah it's a wonderful uh...
wonderful model but as marion said the idea
when do you get a japanese say here's a bit campus him but they need to resend
them arrived at the door and i thought i was out of it that much so i thought
well i think that we both will be on the front lines of this collaboration
is on the libraries and no from your service to the manner
about who puts on the potential is can you
from your spirits up you know what it is to think that will be looking forward to
it's uh...
that the thing i think that's the most important is that
we join a group of uh... librarians
that are used to working together that have the same values
that face the same problems are generally
uh... compare obama across each other and and have a history of doing really
interesting things and i think strategically for the libraries this is
it we've had all this discussion about how transformational this is that were
in the midst of my recent
redefining ourselves and seeing what we should be and to be with a group of
people who are also doing this and it's going to speed up so i think it's going
to uh... which takes place a call for the best potential forces
well we haven't been very basic things that we will have immediate access every
all of our
faculty and students will have access to
the collections
so that's out through one support that won a prize i think dinette these ninety
million book falling yes sixty-five sarkar for an increase in size rather
dramatically
the the one of the initiatives that the libraries that started priestly
is a shared print
uh... program
we can rely upon
materials at least a copy being available to us for our use
then we can make all kinds of decisions were getting ready to have a
storage facility here
at seven
it'll allow us to make decisions about what we all put in there
in the context of this much broader collection so video store researchers
are looking for publication
there's anywhere inside the c_i_a_ c schedules access
there's a there's consulting and for delivery in at identifying and
delivering
as well so they will try to connections that i i have to ask you
what a hockey is and why we got a care not
well that was fun
uh... but that's as about the initiative that that the group takes in
uh... so they'll take on big things and stop on
so we were uh... too
mera michigan was the first university that was pulled into the google pops
program
as they have
their collections in retail amazingly enough them down
so immediately the csc librarian said well you know we just need to
rpm this and we negotiated
for all of the csc libraries she got a lot of birds
and dept so that we started thinking about
our test vote the role of libraries
for preserving the future
so what we're going to do with office digital content and the question was
will google be there
in two hundred years
we know libraries will be
and so we had to take responsibility for the apt
for that corpus and so we weaver claim to have a what was it called for
something to chill library wasn't very excited you never had a national
electronic virginia either date is the way they did have a name
and uh... we start our discussions and up
one of first had have been named cycles that because we expanded immediately
brought california and so forth
and then one-percent cut in park arrived at the same idea
of a name but it was
the the domain was already taken
so we talked about an elephant
and elephant
you know its big it's strong
it's they it's it's if it gets stressed worth a it has a memory
so we've got our guest and never forget that i sold all these things will be
there forever
and and hockey
is the uh... i think the indian name
elephant
and so that's our
armada now anil and in fact i think
communications person might come out but that now
there's an elephant and i like so there's a the health of the room in this
case this there is the strategy for making sure that
our scholars have this electronic collection was out there forever
in the library it's preserved forever
and now that expresses picking on other things like
no i may have noticed but almost all karnataka mints coming like trying to
clean up
we have this antiquated system where we all have to hold on to the project
and so we've been wanting the government to digitized all of those things that
are
them older with materials
and it never had we just decided something happened so
the c_i_s_ he's gonna do it
uh... subbarao dot asp
properly talked about the
electronic networks in the fiber-optic lines that i have to ask you about that
we all have
have been another homes so what's the big deal about this way and would come
up with you mrs clinton crystals old that's a angry questioning this is a
project were really excited bout so it started out
uh... like so many projects in the city and i think
very much like the libraries where
in this case the chief information officers of our universities were trying
to solve a problem they had some years ago at the
um... they need to build up their campus networks increased ban with cancer
constantly consuming more pain since
center talking about
how they're getting develop these individual networks and
while they're talking about every lifestyle we depend on this to gather we
can't build
one big networked beyond just the same amount of money and that would be
exponentially victor
and faster and cheaper
so this would be packet so they began with this very simple premise against
building up these networks at the same place in the same time in in order to
realize that they should seize
persons that did that they had much more power in the marketplace to buy even
more pamphlet
to built services on this that would benefit our research so in this case we
code an operator fiberoptic network so that things like your emailing enter
operating faster
but they're huge pipes for your researchers sophia's assess on c_a_c_
member univeristy campuses can send data live to the large a translator
experiment in switzerland for example something
how many other campuses can't kitty can handle so publicly others but to be able
to communicate your work effectively need to be awesome
a lot of information mistral installed
sleep which was clawed my internet at home exactly or certainly a slow things
down significantly so
begin its at
it's this process that many individuals go through on the campuses too
figure out what is the problem we need to solve on our campus and is there a
piece of this problem that we consult together
and thereby get better faster and cheaper script universities
the answer to that sometimes it's nice and sometimes no so much of the work for
the c_a_c_ is actually again
building and working with lots of communities across the key since your
peer teens for example or related
for simply get together to share
sp strategies about how you manage
issues from your perspective college research first
then advance to solving problems together and much to do that your co
investing
and that's where the real growth of the c_d_c_ comes from
now for messing around headquarters going hey here is that the you know here
so we should do after the future of researching versus that organically each
have each of the institutions examining that ah...
begin another reason we're really excited about marilyn coming in is
we don't think of this says
making a bigger cfc or adding you to the existing c_a_c_ it's transforming
this year's because your
praying
you perspectives new people need to problems to solve
then again we think bookseller rates some
manifested
what you see is the the first big next steps that either civilians will be
taking in trying to secure the academic cooperation in stanley park join let you
know we have a commission working uh...
that is looking at allot of japan aspects of joining the big tent up
that therefore subgroups
for task force is one of the most focused on the csc
susmita faculty and
staff and student representatives and even representatives from the private
sector and we've been discussing
what are the best first steps one of the first things we want to take advantage
of and also what can we bring to the csc that's
special that maryland has that maybe others don't cancel we can really be
you know feel like we're very bangert important contributors from the
beginning instead of just you know about
new kid on the deficit from libraries because works is that so much oil
exactly certainly we do have a lot annually
artists are geography
here and puts us in touch with federal agencies and
creates partnership opportunities with a
federal agencies and other
and local
three power plants here that maybe and as a little bit special
cyber security
um... terrorism expertise in terrorism these kinds of things that are
big on this campus not that they don't exist on the other on the csc campuses
but maybe we can bring some special insider opportunist social pressures
that comes from there are several occasion jacqueline exactly
not on the site of the show were calling greater were university after all right
so we've got to have grades but were still very early in the process of
connecting but the c_i_s_ e
so if we all have to bring that to begin by giving ourselves and incomplete so
far
but they're not alleged were two years from now looking back into our
integration into the sea i see
what program
do you think one of the greatest impact
on our university
what is a going to take to get a select very intimate to start with you if i
could
out cash
i'd have to say libraries it's really a big deal unit squarely
one out maybe the most mature of the collaborations and it's something that
we have talked about
in other ways trying to some of these things were trying to do here already is
that something
uh... this did not attend the sincerity i think it's gonna really expand what we
what we can do
acquitted
brightwell but again i'm very excited about uh... opportunity to expand these
language offering something significant impact there
say one area that i think um... really represents
the future of the c_a_c_ where we can decrease in packets
in research our universities with
maryland joining
engage in nine
billion dollars of funded research nine read your you know i need for the
elderly
so that this is an area for you could think strategically
about those investments leverage them it desert laboratory for so many sent and
other kinds of research efforts
to see if we could really abbott transformational
uh... impact anti peak again with
with your coming in and your engagement on background and your research the
these
emerging trends really
speak again uh... that is an area where you can have a great impact and would
have it
significant act of the nation
and globally said and that
secret codes right along with what i was saying about trying to find a special at
its best hitler real experts exactly
and at what is it buys a ticket as credit card
used by both provide great
but i think uh... are said to important words that i think
basically that's how i
how this strikes me
and that was leveraging transformational
because
our media talk was people we're gonna save us money because we're going to
have to wake up
can really work on it put more into it
we're going to get so much more out than i think it's just going to move our
university to
it's going to transact certainly been transformed the way we think into an
ally for is and i think just
seeing ourselves into this
contacts and being able to work like you say
within the context of the n_ nine to its
it's the mentality i think that's precisely because there's so many things
that look at what to do
so it sounds like we're going to bring out what the route to a day is a route
that we go
pink it looks like there's a lot of attention where she's been are turned
out to do it
happen and that i really think
joining the csc is going to turn out to be more important to this university and
showing ten
faceted
exactly are saying that already that we've got that covers not hundreds
already worsened by any means to say that on this campus although on their
own indiana game would be good so that's covered afterward
greatest artificially competing
in the big tent on the athletic side in two thousand fourteen but we're joining
the c_i_s_ the the academics ibis partnership a full year earlier starting
this summer in two thousand thirteen
as you've heard from our tour of our panelists today has a wealth of academic
opportunities for us to take advantage of this exciting time for our students
and for our faculty
that's it for this episode of exercise
but the fact our esteemed guests for joining us today
i'm don cattle thanks so much for joining us
we'll see you again very soon is and bring together more of universities
toppling researchers
on problems of matter to you