Questions

**Development of Content and Organization for MSITE Retreat** Spring 2011 Current from Bill's email..
 * MSITE Strategic Planning**

1. **How do we want to be known--**at ECU, within the disciplines, and to the broader community? addsomething new. a. Promotion of MSITE faculty as outstanding educators of science and mathematics teachers in eastern NC b. **Can we use branding and/or social media to promote our ideas? addnew** c. **What can we learn from other similar departments/programs across the country?** d. How does CSMTE fit into our goals? How can faculty better utilize and promote this resource? 2. What does it mean to be a "unified department?" What is the value added to having an effective, working academic department? a. How can we use our current struggles (e.g., fiscal, workloads, and other) as opportunities to improve? b. How can we build MSITE into a better department that is more productive and more efficient? c. What administrative structure will best serve our needs and work? Assoc Chair? Prog Coordinators? Student Advisors? Faculty Mentors? Utilization of support staff/students? d. What department policies are needed and how should they be developed? 3. What are the strengths/contributions that each of the programs areas can make to our collective work? a. What collaborative projects can a program area or individual faculty work on in the future?

__Some additional questions to consider__: 1. How will these ideas shape into an agenda for the retreat? 2. What groupings and input will we need to answer the questions? 3. Should we consider external speakers/participants, to get additional viewpoints? 4. What are the anticipated deliverable/outcomes/products from the retreat? 5. What types of follow-up activities and work should be planned in advance of the retreat?