| Day before – Thursday, July 24 ➢ P.M. Arrival at hotel. - Late afternoon/Early evening (Holiday Inn Express, 975 North Lakeview Parkway, Vernon Hills, IL) ➢ 5:00 – 7:00 Manager’s Reception in the Hotel. – informal social gathering. ➢ Dinner. Free choice: teams, teams together, etc. Friday, July 25 Get breakfast at hotel and/or have choice of pastries, fruit coffee/tea and juice at Lake Forest. 8:30 Welcome and introduction; case study/overview. – Meyer Auditorium, Hotchkiss Hall, Lake Forest College - Tom Kirk ➢ An event organizer will welcome participants and outline the workshop. ➢ A panel of participants from Beloit, Earlham, and Lawrence will provide three short case studies of collaboration on their campuses. (B: Josh Hickman, E: Neal Baker, L: Julie Fricke) ➢ A facilitator (Tom Kirk) will provide a short overview of some of the aspects of effective collaboration and divide the audience into pairs. Each pair will be asked to reflect on the panel discussion and overview and identify one idea or question to share with the larger group regarding the institutional advantages of effective collaboration: expanding on an idea already mentioned, identifying something new, or raising a question. The facilitator (Tom Kirk) will ask each pair to report to the larger group on their idea / question. A recorder (David Berk, Angela Jevremovic, Tom Kirk) will note the ideas/questions raised and these notes will become part of the workshop outcomes and used as a basis for discussion throughout the workshop. 10:30 Break – Meyer Lobby, Hotchkiss Hall 11:00 Small-group sessions: institutional opportunities/challenges – Hotchkiss Hall ➢ Participants will be given a summary of the institutional opportunities/challenges to collaboration identified in the pre-workshop questionnaire (the summary will not identify institutional affiliations) (Prepare and collate the survey: Melissa Dix, Sarah Dutcher, Tom Kirk). A facilitator (Peter Gilbert) will break participants into inter-institutional teams of 6-8 to discuss: o potential solutions to two of the barriers identified o thoughts on two of the opportunities identified o some combination of the two 12:00 Lunch – Mohr Student Center 1:00 Plenary session: institutional opportunities/challenges - sharing solutions – Meyer Auditorium, Hotchkiss Hall ➢ A spokesperson from each inter-institutional group will share the group’s ideas discussed in the previous session. The facilitator (Peter Gilbert) will use the ideas to lead a discussion of practical tips/techniques and best practices to promote/encourage/advance a collaborative culture on liberal arts college campuses. The ideas will be recorded and become part of the workshop outcomes. 2:15 Break – Meyer Lobby 2:30 Small-group sessions: campus teams 1 – Hotchkiss Hall ➢ Campus teams will gather to discuss and identify a project to advance collaboration on their campus based on the previous workshop sessions. 3:30 Small-group sessions: fostering collaboration – Hotchkiss Hall ➢ A facilitator (Megan Fitch) will divide participants into inter-institutional teams of 6-8 and distribute a short list of questions (Write questions: Melissa Dix, Sarah Dutcher, Tom Kirk) that focus on specific aspects of fostering collaboration (e.g. the role of space and personality, the role of leadership, leadership skills, team-building essentials, and other questions that arise out of pre-workshop questionnaire). Each group will choose one question to discuss. 4:15 Plenary session: fostering collaboration – sharing ideas – Hotchkiss Hall ➢ A spokesperson from each group will provide a short report on their thoughts regarding the question they chose. A facilitator (Megan Fitch) will then use the ideas generated to lead a discussion that expands on the practical tips/techniques and best practices to promote/encourage/advance a collaborative culture on liberal arts college campuses already started in previous sessions. The ideas will be recorded and become part of the workshop outcomes. 5:00 Reception – Mohr Student Center ➢ Cash bar as well as snacks and non-alcoholic beverages 6:00 Dinner – Mohr Student Center 7:00 Plenary “poster projects”: collaborative technology tools – Mohr Student Center ➢ An event organizer (Kerry Ashworth-King) will provide an overview of showcased collaborative technology tools. Participants will then have the opportunity to enjoy dessert while visiting several tables that demonstrate collaborative technology tools (Kerry Ashworth-King and Sarah Dutcher, Melissa Dix). Saturday, July 26 Get breakfast at hotel and/or have choice of pastries, fruit coffee/tea and juice at Lake Forest. 8:00 Breakfast: “birds of a feather” – Meyer Lobby, Hotchkiss Hall ➢ Participants will share experiences, ideas, and challenges regarding collaboration in groups based on academic discipline or functional area. 9:30 Small-group sessions: campus teams – Hotchkiss Hall ➢ Campus teams will gather to plan collaborative initiatives at their institution, based on the previous workshop sessions. 10:30 Break – Meyer Lobby 11:00 Plenary session: sharing campus plans. – Meyer Auditorium, Hotchkiss Hall ➢ A spokesperson from each campus team will share plans for collaborative initiatives at their institution. After all plans have been shared, there will be a period for open discussion about both specific plans and lessons learned from the workshop. The plans will be compiled into one document at the end of the session. Facilitator (Peter Gilbert) 12:30 Conclusion / box lunch -- Meyer Auditorium → Lobby, Hotchkiss Hall ➢ An event organizer (Peter Gilbert) will conclude the workshop and provide participants with a timeline for post-workshop outcomes. o Within one week after the workshop, event organizers from Beloit, Earlham, and Lawrence will author an action report that captures thoughts on collaboration expressed at the workshop. The action report will be made available on a project web site hosted at Earlham and open to the public. Twenty-five (25) in-kind hours will be required to author the action report. o Within three months after the workshop, campus teams will be sent a follow-up questionnaire that prompts them to assess the status of their collaborative project and write a 500-word synopsis. Thirty (30) in-kind hours will be required for the assessment questionnaire: eight (8) in-kind hours for the creation of the questionnaire and two (2) in-kind hours for each of the eleven campus teams to complete the questionnaire and write their 500- word synopsis. The assessment questionnaire and synopses will be made available on a project web site hosted at Earlham and open to the public. o Within one year after the workshop, campus teams will use wiki software to collaboratively author a report that distills their best thinking about the characteristics of quality collaboration. Fifteen (15) in-kind hours will be required to author the report that will be made available on a project web site hosted at Earlham and open to the public. o Periodically, event organizers from Beloit, Earlham, and Lawrence will communicate progress reports for inclusion in NITLE Updates and the NITLE web site. |
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