This week, 28 January – 1 February, i=
\ns "Staff Resumption Week" here at Divine Word University. So =
\nfar both Cindy and I have been assigned office space and met the rest of=
\n our colleagues in the Mathematics and Computing Science Department (MCS=
\n). … <\/p>\n
A terminology note: what we North Americans might =
\ncall "faculty" is here more termed "academic staff."=
\n What we called "school" or "college" is here calle=
\nd Faculty, and the person — our boss — that we used to title Division =
\nChair is locally known as a Head of Department.<\/p>\n
Our Head of Dep=
\nartment slot is a bit of a delicate balance, due to the departure of a s=
\ntaff member last year. There being no one considered senior enough in t=
\nhe MCS Department to fill the role, the head of the Information Systems =
\nDepartment is temporarily "filling in." This makes him the He=
\nad of Department for two departments, IS and MCS, and it is too big of a=
\n job for anybody. He looks forward to grooming someone to take over MCS=
\n very soon.<\/p>\n
We also have begun our regular staff return-to-scho=
\nol meetings. Yesterday and today we were briefed by a number of higher =
\nups of the University concerning the current strategic plan and where th=
\nis year fits into that. DWU's President states we are in the Second=
\n Decade Strategic plan, wherein DWU hopes to move in ten years from a &q=
\nuot;good" University to a "great" University, one that is=
\n internationally recognized. We also learned about what are the long-ra=
\nnge emphases to be worked on this year. One of the major ones is review=
\ning (or, as they like to call it, "refreshing") the Department=
\ns' Program Specification Documents. In North American parlance, the=
\nse collectively would form the University catalog.<\/p>\n
In addition,=
\n we also had our first meeting of the Facult of Business and Informatics=
\n. Our Dean introduced the two-dozen or so academic staff of the whole f=
\naculty. These comprise five departments. Besides the already mentioned=
\n Departments of Information Systems, and Math and Computer, there are al=
\nso departments of Business Studies, Tourism and Hospitality, and finally=
\n Finance and Management. The reason there is a Department of Finance an=
\nd Management, apart from Business Studies, is that this one is new in th=
\nis faculty. The University is realigning how their adult continuing edu=
\ncation system (locally called "Flexible Learning") … so does=
\n this sound familiar to anyone with a background in education?<\/p>\n
=
\nThe meetings continue tomorrow and for the rest of the week, and the ter=
\nm officially starts next week with Lecture Week 1, on 4 February. Welco=
\nme to DWU!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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