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Agenda• Welcome
• IAC Strategic Actions
• Highlights of Things to Come
• Announcements
• Discussion with IAC Leadership
New IAC Faculty
Neha KumarAssistant Professor
INTA Brian LarsonAssistant Professor
LMC
Seung Hoon LeeAssistant Professor
ECONLaine Nooney
Assistant ProfessorLMC
Michael KummerAssistant Professor
ECON
James “Sandy” WinnefeldDistinguished Professor
INTA
Milton MuellerProfessor
PUBLIC POLICY
New IAC Staff
Fariah MajmundarAdministrative
Manager Modern Languages
Jade HillEngagement and Communications
CoordinatorEconomics
Joanna JeskovaExecutive AssistantIAC Dean’s Office
Kesley MumpowerIT Support ProfessionalFor Public Policy and
Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
(R.O.T.C.)
Shamecia PowersAdministrative
Manager IINunn School of
International Affairs
August 2015March 2015 March 2015 June 2015 September 2015
Visiting Faculty
Todd MichneyVisiting Assistant Professor
History and Sociology
Antoine CailleVisiting Assistant Professor
Modern Languages
Elizabeth HigginbothamVisiting Professor
History and Sociology
(January 2016)
You Na LeeVisiting Assistant Professor
Public Policy
New Postdoctoral Fellows• Mariza Almeida
(Public Policy)
• Brenden Kuerbis(Public Policy)
• Thomas Lodato(Public Policy : Center for Urban Innovation)
• Taylor Shelton(Public Policy: Center for Urban Innovation)
And returning from last year:
• Alberto FuentesCoca Cola Foundation Term Post-Doc in Sustainable Development(NS)
• Jennifer Sterling(HSOC: Sport, Society, and Technology)
New Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellows• Lyndsay Brown – Film and Media Studies, Comics and Digital Rhetoric
• Jennifer Forsthoefel – Composition Theory and Pedagogy, Writing Center Studies, Women & Gender Studies
• Kathryn Huie Harrison – 19th Century British Literature and Culture, Gender Studies, Technical Writing
• James Howard – Medieval and Early Modern Literature, Chivalric Romance, Disguise, Games, Code-Meshing
• Anna Ioanes– Contemporary American fiction, Gender and Sexuality, Postmodernism, Aesthetics, Affect Theory
• Amy King – Circum-Atlantic Studies (Africa, Caribbean, Americas) 1890-Present, Women & Gender Studies, Film
• Joshua King – Rhetorical Theory, Composition Theory, Games Studies, Writing Center Studies
• Andrea Krafft – Post-1900 American Literature, Material and Popular Culture, Postwar Studies, Speculative Fiction
• Halcyon Lawrence – Technical Communication, Speech Intelligibility, Usability, User-Centered Design
• Andrew Marzoni – 20th Century and Contemporary American Literature, the Avant-garde, drugs, rock and roll
• Melissa Sexton –19th and Early 20th Century American Literature, Environmental Writing, Phenomenology
• Ellen Stockstill – Victorian Literature and Culture, Gender Studies, Feminist and Post-Colonial Theories
• Joseph Weakland – Writing Studies, Environmental and Sustainability Education, Science Fiction
• Tobias Wilson-Bates – Victorian Literature and Culture, Romanticism, Digital Pedagogy, Children’s Literature
• Ruth Yow– Educational Justice, Race, Immigration, Ethnography, Oral History, Civil Rights History
IAC Faculty Newly Promoted to Associate Professor
Justin Barrett BiddlePublic Policy
Janelle Knox-HayesPublic Policy
Nihad FarooqLiterature, Media, &
Communication
Margaret KosalNunn School of
International Affairs
Juan Carlos RodriguezModern Languages
Olga ShemyakinaEconomics
IAC Faculty Newly Promoted to Professor
Adam StulbergNunn School of
International Affairs
Brian WoodallNunn School of
International Affairs
Alasdair YoungNunn School of
International Affairs
Valerie ThomasSchool of Public Policy
Keep the Trains Running
School-level Strategic Planning
and Implementation
Processes
ROTC Collaborations
College-wide Agenda in Research,
Student Affairs, IT Support, and
College Operations Generally
IAC’s Strategic Agenda: Phase 1 (2010-2014)
Priority One: (In Motion)
To increase the visibility of Liberal Arts@Tech as a distinctive brand and clarify this expertise in research, education, and community engagement as a “jewel” in the Georgia Tech crown.
Priority Two: (In Motion)
To leverage excellence and increase coherence, vibrancy, and impact for Liberal Arts@Tech in research, education, and engagement through the advancement of strategic transformative initiatives.
IAC’s Strategic Agenda: Phase 1 (2010-2014)
Priority Three: (Constantly Evolving)
To support innovation and excellence in research, education, and engagement by building financial resources; clarifying and refining operational policies, processes, and practicesacross the college; increasing faculty and staff in support ofstrategic goals and priorities.
IAC’s Strategic Agenda: Phase 2 (2015-2018)
Priority One:(Leveraged by annual GT evaluation processes; BOR reviews; IAC metrics)
To document the success and impact of actions related to the Phase 1 agenda by continuing to build identity, visibility and coherence for the IAC’s long-standing strengths and accomplishments as generated over the decades by our academic programs and research centers, and as leveraged by an evolving slate of transformative initiatives.
IAC’s Strategic Agenda: Phase 2 (2015-2018)
Priority Two:
To keep the IAC on a trajectory of excellence and high performance under the banner of “innovation at the crossroads of humanities, social sciences, and technology,” including robust efforts to:
• Advance strategic planning implementation at the school level.
• Strengthen IAC research and curriculum innovation enterprises.• Strengthen graduate programs and interdisciplinary
undergraduate programs.
IAC’s Strategic Plan: Phase 2 (2015-2018)
Priority Three:
• To continue developing and advancing IAC transformative initiatives, with an eye toward expanding the college’s local-global footprint and building reputation in research, education, and public engagement. In addition to the initiatives listed in the Phase 1 Plan, all of which are now generating success, current projects in motion include:
• The Leadership and Multi-Faith Program• The Global Nexus Initiative
• Global Women’s Entrepreneurship Institute• A Civic Engagement Lab• A Digital Liberal Arts Center
(Digital Humanities Studio; Civic Engagement Lab)
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A New Showcase of Strength
The Leading Edge
The Ivan Allen College Digital Publication Series
http://leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu
Digital Publication SeriesInspired in 2013 by the 125th Anniversary of LiberalArts@Tech, the Ivan Allen College made its first steps toward launching
a digital publication series, The Leading Edge
Mission
To showcase the innovative research that we do at Georgia Tech at the intersections of the humanities, social sciences, and technology by sharing in digital format designated examples of some of our most robust, innovative, and cutting edge projects.
GoalTo blaze pathways for excellence in the liberal arts, establishing this knowledge set
(humanities, social sciences, technology), expertise, and experience base as critical assets for our highly scientific and technological 21st century world.
Priorities
• Robust displays of human-centered perspectives on societal challenges• Innovative examples of our dynamic frameworks for understanding the contexts,
patterns, impacts, and consequences of innovation, research, and policy• Projects that highlight innovative models and paradigms for problem-posing,
developing integrative analyses, and finding sustainable solutions• Initiatives that cast light on local challenges and opportunities and connect them
over time and space to regional and global contexts• Projects that demonstrate our logistical expertise in bringing multiple stakeholders
together to engage and address common interests and concerns• Explorations that suggest new frontiers for liberal arts research and education
Inaugural Showcases
Humanistic Perspectives in a Technological WorldOur first book publication:
http://leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu/humanistic-perspectives/
A Second Inaugural Publication
Mapping Place: Africa Beyond PaperAn Exhibition Catalog:
http://leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu/humanistic-perspectives/
Mapping Place: Africa Beyond Paper
A Third Inaugural Publication
Conference Proceedings from Africa Beyond Africa:The Future of Cultural, Social, and Scientific Research
A third book publication on its way:http://leading-edge.iac.gatech.edu/aaproceedings/
Proceedings from Africa Beyond Africa
Keep Investments in Our Work Flowing
• IAC Campaign Goal: $35,000,000• Current Success: $33,739,808• Percentage to Goal Completed: 96%• Amount to go: $1,260,192• Campaign End: December 31, 2015
LAMP’s first faculty liaison between Candler and IAC:
Deanna F. WomackAssistant Professor in the Practice of History of Religions and Multi-Faith Relations. She will begin in Fall 2015
The LAMP Program: Advancing an Innovative Connection between Ivan Allen College and Candler School of Theology at Emory
ARTS@ Tech: Collaboration with Komen Atlanta
Friday, October 16th
8:00pm – 10:00pmFerst Center for the Arts
SISTER OUTSIDERPOETRY
Margaret Kosal, Olga Shemyakina, and Jannet Walker
The Global Nexus Initiative: Showcasing a collaboration between the Ivan Allen College, International Women’s Think Tank, and the Academy of Women
Keynote by:COL Buckner
Featuring Panelists:
Westside Communities Alliance: Connecting Local Issues to National Patterns in Urban Communities
Saturday April 23 –Sunday April 24
2016
LiberalArts@GTPartnering with TEDx to showcase our strengths
To be continued on Tuesday, April 26, 2016
ConferencesPoverty Summit (Community Relations/Ivan Allen College)September 18, 2015@ Student Center Ballroom
Atlanta Conference (School of Public Policy) September 17-19 @ Global Learning Center
9th Annual China Goes Global Conference (CIBER) October 1-3 @ Academy of Medicine
5th Anniversary Celebration of the Westside Communities Alliance (WCA)Spring 2016