Implementation Plan
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Recommendation |
Proposed |
Responsibility for Leading Follow-up |
Timeline for Addressing Recommendation |
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1. Reduce normal course load for tenured faculty from six to five (3/2 or 2/3) |
Awaiting Report from the RMC Workload Committee and any actions agreed to by management and the Faculty Association |
Chair, Dean SSH, RMC Principal and Head of CMCFA |
July, 2024 |
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2. Hire Indigenous educational design specialist |
Will work with the current Associate Vice- Principal, Indigenous Knowledge and Learning to work with professors interested in incorporating Indigenous content and ways of knowing into their courses. |
Department Head, Dean |
Update summer 2024. |
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3. Address gaps and redundancies in curriculum and research specialization |
Will resume current hiring process to find a scholar whose teaching and research expertise lies outside the modern Western world. |
Department Head History Hiring Committee |
July, 2024. |
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4. Create and integrate compulsory historical methods course |
HI 206 has been approved for the 2023-24 Academic Year (making sure that it is a bilingual offering) |
Department Head |
Done |
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5. Establish common standard for course syllabi |
Will create repository of sample syllabi exhibiting best practices (these should contain explicit over-arching and specific learning objectives). Consult with the writing center for new ideas. |
Department Head |
Summer 2024 |
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6. To promote collegiality and cooperation, it would be preferable if all faculty had offices in the same building. |
Will work with professors, CMFCA and QA office to improve both the content and participation of students on teaching evaluations. |
Department Head and members, Director QA, VPA, |
June, 2024 |
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7. Promote real bilingualism
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Will continue to hire fully bilingual CCC qualified professors (both civilian and Military Faculty where possible). Will promote students with BBB standing to take courses outside their language of choice. Will press for return of SLT for staff and faculty |
Department Head |
September, 2023 |
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8. Department Research Action Plan
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Annual RMC History Symposium returns in November 2023. Will continue to use Department website and social media presence to celebrate/recognize work of faculty and students |
Department Head |
November 2024 |
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9. Increase Institutional Support for Research
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Department will continue to work with the VP Research and the Dean of SSH to make funding (and training) opportunities available to faculty and to promote grant application processes. Will sponsor grant writi ng workshops for faculty in the Fall 2023. |
Department Head |
October 2023 |