Faculty Meeting

October 6, 2024

11:30 a.m.-1:15 p.m. 

Bloedel 070 and Zoom:  https://washington.zoom.us/j/91827033444?pwd=RC95MjdsSWNnRXdsalhhOHFWOXlMUT09 

11:30 a.m.:  Faculty Meeting Begins

Welcome. Land acknowledgment   

Announce Helene Williams’ Emeritus vote approval.  

Nomination - Kabir Shahani, Affiliate Assistant Professor (Mike Teodorescu, Jeremy Zaretzky)

REVIEW (5 min, individual):

Online vote: 

• Appointments:  Kabir Shahani, Affiliate Assistant Professor and Graduate Faculty Status - Andrew Reifers

CONSENT AGENDA

• May 10, 2024 Faculty Meeting Minutes
• October 4, 2024 Faculty Meeting MInutes

NEW COURSES:

INFO 104: Tech Ethics, Policy, and Law 

LIS 540: Technology Fundamentals for Library and Information Professionals

LIS 5XX: Trauma-Informed Care in Public Libraries

IMT 526: Building and Applying Large Language Models (LLMs)

UPDATED COURSES:

Informatics:  INFO 480: Program and Project Management (Update/revival and renumbering of INFO 481 Project Management in Informatics) 

MLIS: Changes represent on-going efforts by the MLIS Program Committee to update courses and map student learning outcomes (SLOs) to the learning objectives.

• LIS 506: Introduction to Digital Preservation
• LIS 512: Community Analysis
• LIS 527: Business Librarianship
• LIS 530: Organization of Information and Resources
• LIS 534: Indigenous Systems of Knowledge
• LIS 537: Taxonomy and Indexing Construction
• LIS 571: Grant Writing (Increasing credits from 1 to 2-credits; no other changes)
• LIS 586: Public Libraries and Advocacy

MSIM:  IMT 561: Data Visualization Design and Development (Updates reflect a consolidation of IMT 561 Visualization Design and IMT 562 Interactive Information Visualization into one course. This integrated course will cover both design and development topics and learning objectives.)

  PROGRAM CHANGES:

Informatics:  Minor Changes to Program Catalog

• Updating the description of our admissions prompt to make it more general.
• Adding a requirement for students to get a 2.0 in all core classes.
• Updating Continuation Policy 

NEW PROGRAM/CERTIFICATE:  

MSIM:  UW Graduate Certificate in Artificial Intelligence for Organizations

• Faculty Discussion Handout | Program Notice of Intent

DECIDE (3 min, collective): 

• Consent Agenda approval

INFORM (5 min,  Christine Noyes-Williams)

• PhD Admissions (best practices) 

INFORM (10 min, Anind Dey)

• Dean’s update 

12:00 p.m.  Executive Session

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