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Planning College of Arts Committee Reports
Pros
- able to promote collaborative work with artists, musicians, actors, e.g., in weekly seminar
- promote collaborative culture
- common needs in common space
- create momentum for changes
- create regional identity for arts community
- formation of college gives admin voice: dean that speaks only to arts vs. CAS
- CAS dean doesn’t have to deal with arts but can focus on other areas more
- majors could get advising from faculty outside CAS to bolster liberal arts element
- collectively, sizeable entity that could have larger impact on community
- stronger voice with the legislature collectively rather than as individual units or as part of CAS
- easier to support fundraising staff in each unit (couldn’t dedicate staff within CAS as easily)
Cons
- could promote college work within existing structure
- different languages among different disciplines
- arts historians may lose humanities role within CAS; may feel uncomfortable within COA
- contributes to "silo" effect of isolation across faculty
- will art history appear within CAS anywhere?
- lose an element of liberal arts within CAS
- majors may lose sight of importance of liberal arts in their education
- identity takes long time to create and disseminate, which could hinder fundraising efforts for entire COA
- increased staff (dean, assoc dean) and other new resources needed for admin levels (that’s equal to 2-3 faculty lines)
- lose discretionary funds/IDC that might trickle down from other depts. within CAS but that might not be there with smaller unit
- lots of work for nothing?
- additional work (creating admin structure, policies and procedures) without additional resources
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