CSG Workshops and Business Meeting Agenda

CSG Virtual Meeting
20-22 January, 2021

Wednesday:  CSG Short Workshops

All times ET

12:00	Welcome & Conference Introduction (Christen & Antonelli)
12:05	CSG Long Workshop:  Consolidation in the time of Covid + When the Dust Settles: Lasting Improvements Post-Covid Coordinators: John Board (Duke) & Phoebe Johnson (Minnesota), Jane Livingston (FSU), Sarah Christen (Cornell), Alok Vimawala (UMich), Brian DeMeulle (UCSD), Dawn Zimmer (VT), Kemal Badur (Chicago), Jim Phelps (UW), and Tracy Weber (ND) Please see Addendum A for the detailed agenda.
1:45	Break
2:15	CSG Long Workshop:  Consolidation in the time of Covid + When the Dust Settles: Lasting Improvements Post-Covid (continued)
4:00	Adjourn

Wednesday: CSG Social Hour, 4:00 - 5:00 PM (BYOB)

Thursday:  CSG Short Workshops

11:00 - 12:00	Steering Committee Meeting
12:00	CSG Short Workshop: Hiring, retaining, promoting...the best, most diverse candidates + tools / techniques to use Coordinators:  Carrie Shumaker (UMich), Tracy Weber (ND), Dana German (UVA), Yang/Lang (EDUCAUSE), Brian DeMeulle (UCSD), and Jane Livingston (FSU) Please see Addendum B for the detailed agenda.
1:45	Break
2:15	CSG Short Workshop:  New Tools, New Data for Student Engagement & Success Coordinator: Casey Nugent (UNL) & Becky Joffrey (Cornell), Tom Lewis (UW), Brian DeMeulle (UCSD), and Charlie Leonhardt (Georgetown) Please see Addendum C for the detailed agenda.
4:00	Adjourn

Thursday: CSG Social Hour, 7:00 - 8:00 PM (BYOB)

Friday: CSG Business Meeting

12:00	I. Organizational Issues (CSG Coordinator) Steering/Membership Committee Issues Member vote to confirm Texas A&M membership Member vote to confirm Treasurer renewal Treasurer's Report Logistics for Next Meeting Venues and Dates for Future CSG Meetings Please see http://www.stonesoup.org/future.html for the current list.
12:15	II. Short Slots and Breaking News (CSG Coordinator) Workshop Summaries (:05) Consortial Updates (:20) Blended Meeting Attendance Discussion (:30)
1:10	III. Timely Topics and Gossip (Christen) Topics TBA
1:55	IV. Topic Selection for Next Meeting (Jelinkova)
2:15	Break
2:30	V. Short Discussion:  The new normal for data Coordinators: Board/Kneifel/Haws (Duke), Nimish Shah or someone from Columbia, Scott Midkiff or someone from VT, Sarah Christen (Cornell), and Jefferson Burson (Harvard) Please see Addendum D for the detailed agenda.
3:30	VI. Short Discussion:  Vetting LTIs, plugins, and integrations Coordinators: Mark Dieterich (Brown), Tom Lewis (UW), Keith Brown (Minnesota), Angela Rabuck (Rice), and Dave Johnson (Nebraska) Please see Addendum E for the detailed agenda.
4:30	Adjourn

Addendum A: Long Workshop:  Consolidation in the time of Covid + When the Dust Settles: Lasting Improvements Post-Covid
Detailed Agenda

1. 12:05-1:45 EST Consolidation Post-COVID
1. John/Tracy F - Duke's consolidation effort
2. Sarah - emerging consolidation direction at Cornell
3. Tracy W - breakthroughs on collaborations among non-consolidated groups
4. Alok - Moving further up the stack - "manage this application, support this research project" - how do we reorient to support that? How to manage the increase in expectations? Inheriting existing applications AND preventing custom / one off solutions that arise out of common needs.
5. Dawn - looking at division of labor between commodity/central and last mile/local units.  
6. Brian - UCSD's ongoing consolidation efforts from 2016 and still in progress. Impact of Covid on the effort. Still lots of distributed computing on the academic side, most to date has been admin side.  
7. Is IT the ripest fruit to pick? (all) - positioning IT consolidation in the larger university picture
8. Jim: Space consolidation: mixing IT with the administrative and academic side. 
9. Heckling from the floor
   
   
2. 2:15-4:00 EST When the Dust Settles: Top 10 Transformations Post-COVID
1. Survey results: Top 10 + Insights from data
2. Group Discussion as the 10 are revealed
   

Addendum B: Short Workshop:  Hiring, retaining, promoting...the best, most diverse candidates + tools / techniques to use
Detailed Agenda

• What is our current state?  (Leah Lang and Catherine Yang, Educause)
• Diversity in the Recruit / Hire Process (Dana German, UVA)
• Case Study: Real-Life Executive Search (Carrie Shumaker, UMich)
• Building a Culture of Psychological Safety / Inclusion (Jane Livingston, Florida State)
  
• Changing the Culture (Tracy Weber, Notre Dame)
  
• Growing Diverse Leaders and Reinforcing the Importance of Diversity (Brian DeMuelle, UCSD)
  

Addendum C: Short Workshop:  New Tools, New Data for Student Engagement & Success
Detailed Agenda

TBD

Addendum D: Short Discussion:  The new normal for data
Detailed Agenda

TBD

Addendum E: Short Discussion:  Vetting LTIs, plugins, and integrations
Detailed Agenda

TBD