Agenda

Topic	Leader
Munras Residence Hall General Update & Check-in	Guest: Saiya Yanagihashi, Director of Residence Life
Follow-up: Institute Strategy & Institute Council Fall Priorities	Jeff Dayton-Johnson

Munras Residence Hall General Update & Check-in (Guest: Saiya Yanagihashi, Director of Residence Life)

• Saiya recently started as our new Director of Residence Life. She previously served as a Residence Hall Director at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, and an Apartment Coordinator and Bystander Intervention Liaison at Edgewood College in Madison, Wisconsin.
• We had a great Munras Residence Hall opening September 1st-3rd with a lot of music and people welcoming students. We had help from a few orientation leaders and a few staff. 
• Currently Munras houses 85 students, there are 2 vacancies in female double rooms. The building has 41 single rooms, 19 double rooms, 2 triple rooms, and 2 RA rooms.
• Rooms include a bed, desk, dresser, chair, trash, recycling and ability to control the temperature. Communal equipment includes pots, pans, vacuum, swiffer, laundry.
• All rooms use a pin code panel for access
• All residents are asked to sign a COVID19 contract and roommate agreement form
• We currently have 2 RAs at Munras. Our RAs host daily office hours in the lounges, offer programs, and serve on after-hours duty rotation. RA programs include things like bake-offs, game nights, arts and crafts, holiday celebrations, etc. RAs work to build a safe and clean community, and set standards and expectations for use of communal resources like the kitchen, trash, bathrooms, mail, etc.
• There is always someone on duty. During the day on weekdays it is Saiya, and on evenings and weekends it is our RAs.
• The building is up and running, they are just finishing last touches like paint jobs, sliding glass doors, patio furniture, working to get students more refrigerator space, and we are also starting to plan for next year.
• There will be an open house scheduled for Tuesday, November 9, 4-5:30pm. Munras is a secure building and living space, so this will be the only opportunity to drop by for a general visit, but we are hoping everyone can join for the open house.
• The Provost Office has served as a central space for developing priorities and principles for making decisions around summer use. We are likely at capacity for this upcoming summer, but if you have any questions please contact Barbara.

Follow-up: Institute Strategy & Institute Council Fall Priorities (Jeff Dayton-Johnson)

• The September 16th ILG meeting was held as a working meeting where group members had a chance to review and add comments to a document outlining a refreshed version of our 2025 strategy and then engage in small group discussion about one of the four strategy pillars.
  • Note: Due to the silent reading and small group discussion format there were no notes to post on sites.middlebury.edu/miis-info.
• The refreshed version for AY21-22 has been posted on the sites.middlebury.edu/miis-info website: https://sites.middlebury.edu/miis-info/institute-strategy/ 
• The next step for each of these four pillars is to think about what we need to be doing right now to move us towards the goal. There will be opportunities to discuss the pillars in more detail, and a lot of the strategic discussion we are engaged with now is focused on adding more specificity. 
• There were a lot of comments about the ambition embedded in some of the academic targets – we need to continue to think hard about these targets. Once we start unpacking these we may be able to come up with more concrete numbers, but also a path to achieve these goals.
• A lot more work that needs to be done around setting goals and an explicit vision to turn our gaze from March 2020 toward 2025.
• Next steps include:
  • Continued opportunities for engagement with the big picture strategy and collective 2025 OKRs for the broader campus community
  • Opportunities for deeper engagement with key stakeholders on individual key results and plan towards the 2025 goals.

Midterm Survey

• The ILG discussed surveying students and faculty to get a collective sense of how the hybrid semester is going, and we are going to move forward with this idea. Faculty are also being encouraged to conduct midterm evaluations to gather course-specific feedback.