For James Conant, it was improving the quality of the faculty and students.
Knight's report focused on improving the numbers of women faculty, on re-examining the "how and where" of decision making, on communication, and on creation of new family/work policies.
The financial rationale for not improving the conditions of contingent faculty is a bogus argument.
Work done in November including adding profiles for post docs and grad students, improving the process of creating non-faculty profiles, preventing non-faculty profiles for faculty members, adding positions for non-faculty to widgets, enabling widgets to be updated in real time, and creating a basic CV, which is currently in production.
Dr. Allen is focused on addressing the needs and interests of the Penn community and on improving the quality of life for faculty, staff and students with a particular focus on those of African Descent.
Buxton wrote a grant aimed at improving the mentoring abilities of faculty members at his institution and implemented individual development plans to help postdocs better understand their career options and how to attain them.
That said, there are a number of brilliant CIOs in higher education who are actively leading digital business transformation projects, aimed at minimize institutional disruption and improving the experience of the student, faculty and administration.
There are several possible routes to improving the 'culture of professionalism' within a faculty or institution.
The latter are two key conditions for the implementation of e-learning within this faculty, aiming at improving the quality of teaching and learning.
It's not yet clear, however, how much influence it will have on improving the working lives of contingent faculty members in a severely overcrowded labor market during tough financial times.
