Seidenberg Faculty Council Meeting

Today we had our Faculty Council meeting, and I thank all of you who took the time to attend. I hope I left you with the following message: we have many challenges ahead of us, but we also have many opportunities. We should be able to work hard, meet those challenges and have fun along the way.

We need everyone to be "enthusiastic learners" as we redefine the school. The core of our school will be the same: high quality undergraduate and graduate programs in computing built on the foundations of each discipline. Around this core I envision collaborative courses/certificates/programs with other schools in the university. This redefinition of our school is one that I trust we can all support.

I described us as enthusiastic learners because I see us trying new things, working out the glitches as we learn what works and what doesn't, and emerging as leaders in technology across disciplines.

We also spoke about my idea of reorganizing the academic side of the school according to location, with a New York Department, a Westchester Department and a Special Programs/On-line/Corporate Department. I listened to the concerns expressed at the meeting and over the next few weeks I will draft a discussion document on this organization.

I'd like to know what you think about the vision of the school as expressed at the faculty council meeting, as well as the proposed organizational changes. Feel free to e-mail me privately, comment here, or start a thread on the Seidenberg Faculty discussion list at ft-faculty@csis.pace.edu.

Fran will be working with me to arrange a time for a meeting of all of the staff of the Seidenberg School so that we can have a similar discussion.

Next week I'm at the Graduate Center on Monday, in Pleasantville on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, and in New York on Thursday.

I want to share a YouTube video that Narayan shared with the computer science faculty and me, starring one of our very own computer science students who had his brand new MacBook stolen. Enjoy!