Course SyllabusDescription: We face multiple challenges as we develop and implement institution-wide policies to help support an open and information-rich future within our universities. Our ability to work across multiple complex units within the university, to align our priorities and interests, and to understand how decisions are made within our institutions is critical to the success and sustainability of policies and the infrastructure needed to support them.
This course offers an opportunity to engage deeply in how policies and supporting implementing structures are developed, agreed upon, and sustained. Participants will share practice and experiences to broaden the discussion and help find commonalities. Throughout the course, we will be using a range of teaching and workshop tools that in themselves can be repurposed by participants for sessions they might wish to run subsequent to the course.
Intended Audience: There are no prerequisites for this course. We believe the course will be useful for a range of roles and participants – anyone who wants to reflect on and improve how policy is set and implemented at the organizational level.
Requirements: We will ask that participants do some pre-work identifying their own institutional structures and workings.
