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Title: Using Sakai for Committees
An interview with Barbara Wildemuth, Professor in the School of Information and Library Science at UNC Chapel Hill
A different kind of use that I've made of Sakai is for our committee work.
I'm Chair of our Masters committee here in the School
which is responsible for setting policy for the Masters Program and also doing Masters admissions.
And the committee has basically used Sakai as its home base for all of our work.
We essentially haven't printed anything.
So I post the agenda for the meetings up there.
If there are materials that we need to look at during the meetings, I post them up there.
When I finish the minutes, those go up.
So during a meeting, a typical Masters Committee meeting, we'll have Sakai open.
And we'll have the agenda open and as we need resources, we can pull them up and discuss them and have them open.
The other piece of the committee work has been the applications and there again, we've been able to move completely
to an electronic applications workflow through using Sakai.
Where the applications are received by the student services staff.
Once they're complete, they assign them to one of the faculty committee members to review.
We write up comments. We forward those comments and the application then. We move it into another Sakai folder
for our Associate Dean to review. And the decision is made and it moves on from there.
The nice thing about Sakai for that, again, is the granularity of the privacy settings so that only the faculty member
committee members can see the applications.
There are two students on the committee. They can see everything else but they don't see the applications.
So that's been a very nice, flexible way to incorporate student members on a committee
and have the committee to be able to work effectively.
We've been very happy with it.
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