Faculty Meeting
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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