Browsing by Author "Garner, Shirley Nelson"
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Item Interview with Shirley Garner(University of Minnesota, 1995-07-11) Garner, Shirley Nelson; Chambers, Clarke A.Clarke A. Chambers interviews Shirley Garner, faculty member in the Department of English.Item Transforming the University: Final Recommendations of the Task Force on Graduate Reform: Discipline Evolution(University of Minnesota, 2006-05-05) Ekker, Stephen C.; Garner, Shirley NelsonThe mission of the Graduate Reform: Discipline Evolution Task Force is to create a strategic plan for world-class graduate programs and education with particular emphasis on emerging and evolving disciplines. The University should strive to be a national and international model for the strength, breadth, and especially the interdisciplinary scope of its graduate programs.Item Transforming the University: Preliminary Recommendations of the Task Force on Graduate Reform: Discipline Evolution(University of Minnesota, 2006-03-27) Ekker, Stephen C.; Garner, Shirley NelsonThe Discipline Evolution Task Force identifies the following five recommendations as having the greatest potential for transforming the University commensurate with its Strategic Positioning goals: • Establish a named and high-profile institute, modeled after the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University... to support interdisciplinary scholarship at the University of Minnesota. • Create internal faculty exchanges whereby faculty members work in a department or program other than their own for a semester or two.... • Establish a program similar to the faculty exchange program for graduate students to enable them to develop interdisciplinary expertise.... • Seed and, when appropriate, provide long-term support to new and transformational research initiatives that bring together teams of highly talented faculty and students.... • Implement meaningful systems for assessing existing centers, including the expectation that new and existing centers will close after five years unless there is a cogent rationale to continue them....