Transcript Themes from the Roundtable Planning Session on IBB Faculty Needs

Recurrent themes
• Concern about the effect of IBB on interdisciplinary programs
• Effect on class size
• Disincentive for labor-intensive courses, e.g., writing-intensive
courses or lab-based courses
• “Larger classes are rewarded over high-impact small group teaching &
mentoring”
• Concerns regarding how deans make decisions about resources
and investment
• Subvention: what is it and how does it work?
• Breeding of competitiveness among units
• “A frequently expressed concern that colleges would be competing for
resources rather than cooperating.”
• General concerns about trust and transparency at all levels