HVC² retreats

First retreat - January 20, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. - Kansas Union.

All committee sponsors, leads, consultants, facilititators, and committee members gathered at the Kansas Union to participte in a day long retreat to "kick-off" the HVC² project.

Goals of the retreat were:

• discover more about the goals and procedures for HVC²;
• learn about ECAR involvement from Richard Katz, President of ECAR; and,
• interact with your project consultants;
• gather and work with your group

  Additional"creative" activities forced us to think "outside the hairball"!

Group roles defined: Project leads, participants, consultants, facilitators, and sponsors.

Retreat agenda

Project lead responsibilities:

1. For the "Committee reports", the project leads prepared a 15-20 minute report about their committee's current progress and future planned activities. Several groups were much further along than others and all groups had some initial activities and discussed possible avenues of research, information gathering, organization of materials, etc
2. During the afternoon sessions, each of the groups had at least an hour with a consultant. In order to use this time wisely, project leads were urged to contact the consultant(s) directly about how best to make use of his/her time. The time spent with the consultants provided information about what other schools were doing with in their project area or other appropriate research studies.
   

Consultants' responsibilities:

Richard Katz

1. Presented "Getting the Big Picture" - a general overview of ECAR, what it means to be a living case study, and the nature of ECAR's involvement in the HVC2 project. (~45 minutes)
2. Worked with the Decision Makers group. Dianne Goddard and Sheri Blessing-Phillips, project leads, provided additional information about their expectations for Richard's involvement. (~1 hour)
3. Worked with the Quality Service – Students group. Kathryn Nemeth Tuttle and Tami Albin, project leads, provided additional information about their expectations for Richard's involvement. (~1 hour)
4. Presented wrap-up session with Karen Williams (University of Arizona Libraries), consultant for the Quality Service - Scholars committee; feedback and observations about the day's activities; and, ECAR's plans for moving forward. (~ 1 hour)

Joan Lippincott

1. Worked with the Collaborative Learning Spaces g roup. Pre-retreat information was provided by Bill Carswell and Kent Miller, project leads, concerning their expectations for Joan's involvement. (~1 hour)
   
2. During the second session in the afternoon, continued to work with the Collaborative Learning Spaces group for the second hour.
   

Karen Williams

1. Worked with the Quality Service - Scholars group. Jeff Bullington or Carl Strikwerda, project leads, provided additional information about their expectations for Karen's involvement. (~1 hour)
2. Observed and participated in the Quality Service – Students group in the afternoon..
3. Presented the wrap-up session with Richard Katz, Director, ECAR; feedback and observations about the day's activities, mainly from the Libraries' perspective. (~ 1 hour)

Consultant bios

The second retreat will be held June 2, 2004 in the Kansas Union.

Additional information about the retreat will be posted at a later date.