Departmental Reviews

Template for Interview Schedule during Review Visit

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Time (Date, Day 1) Location
8:00-9:00 Entrance Interview with CLAS Deans (Linda Maxson, Dean; Raúl Curto, Executive Associate Dean; Helena Dettmer, Associate Dean for Academic Programs; and Joseph Kearney, Associate Dean for Research and Development) and with John Keller, Graduate College Dean
240 SH Conference Room
9:00-9:30 Entrance Interview with Lola Lopes, Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education, and Helena Dettmer, Associate Dean for Academic Programs & Services  
9:30-10:00 Break/Travel Time  
10:00-11:00 Entrance Interview with DEO-Orientation to the Department/Review  

11:00-11:45

Note: Please identify one space (ideally, a conference room) in which team can hold all or most of its interviews.

Meeting Group #1
Note: In addition to meetings with faculty groups, ordinarily organized by subdisciplinary area, the schedule ordinarily provides meetings with:

  • Undergraduate students
  • Graduate students
  • DEOs from units with ties to the Department through their teaching or research programs (e.g., units with joint faculty appointments)

Others may also be included on the schedule who are identified by the Department/Deans/Review Team as important to the review

 
11:45-12:00 Break  
12:00-12:45 Lunch [could be brown bag with Graduate or Undergraduate Students] --College provides box lunches for reviewers
 
12:45-1:00 Break  
1:00-1:45 Meeting Group #2  
1:45-2:30 Meeting Group #3  
2:30-2:45 Break  
2:45-3:30 Meeting Group #4  
3:30-4:15 Meeting Group #5  
4:15-4:30 Break  
4:30-5:15 Meeting Group #6  
6:00 Working dinner for the Review Committee  

Department of XXX, Schedule of Departmental Review Visit, cont.

Time (Date, Day 2) Location
8:00-9:00 Confidential faculty interviews - If faculty meetings are in groups, time must be set aside for individuals who ask to meet confidentially with reviewers. Individuals contact Carolyn Lewis in the Dean's Office to request these meetings (335-2610; carolyn-lewis@uiowa.edu.) Typically, these individual meetings are for about 10 minutes with one or more reviewers. 240 SH
9:00-9:15 Break  
9:15-10:00 Meeting Group #7  
10:00-10:45 Meeting Group #8  
10:45-11:00 Break  
11:00-11:45 Exit Interview with DEO  
Noon-1:30 Lunch-Dean's Office provides box lunches for reviewers
Review committee prepares for exit interview and plans review report
240 SH
1:30-2:30 Exit Interview with CLAS and Graduate College Deans

Note: The time periods may be adjusted somewhat to accommodate the number of group meetings needed, but the review team must have breaks between meetings. A member of the review team, designated as the "convener," is asked to ensure that each meeting begins and ends promptly at the time specified in the schedule.