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Dear Colleagues:

I am pleased to invite you to "New Times, New Technology, New Scholarship: EVOLVING FACULTY REWARDS," a symposium designed to examine IU's faculty reward structure in the information technology environment. Do our practices encourage or discourage creative activities in IT? Do we provide opportunities for IT scholarship in teaching, research, and service? What are our standards of excellence? What are "best practices," and how do we evaluate?

Our discussion will be enriched by numerous perspectives, including those of Jack Wilson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, who addressed these challenges from the administrative point of view, and those of two young colleagues, Brian Coppola, University of Michigan, and Randy Bass, Georgetown University, who successfully challenged the system. The symposium will be opened by Vice President Ken Gros Louis with reflections on "Evolving the Faculty Reward Structure at IU." Indiana University academic leaders will provide input in various formats throughout the day.

The symposium committee and campus academic officers consider it important for interested faculty to participate actively in this symposium. Both the centrally located IUPUI and IUB campuses will use video broadcast technology to hold this conference simultaneously with speakers on both campuses. This format is designed to assure a critical mass and to assure dialogue and discussion. Lunch will be provided for the first 100 registrants for each campus. Since enrollment is limited, you are encouraged to register early.

Cordially,

Erwin Boschmann
Associate Vice President for Distributed Education