20120302

CE "biweekly" meeting

March 2, 2012

Personnel

Need training for ReachMee (the recruitment system)? See Gunilla Dahlgren.
Joachim von Hacht to step down as responsible for the CS programme at Göteborg University

- Replacement needed.

Assistant Lecturer position in Programming Logic stuck in Limbo at GU.

- Upgrade to Lecturer, start over.

Teaching

Take care to avoid tuition fees for temporary students (such as thesis workers)!
Course evaluation system due for upgrade

- Overhaul might include coordination with GU?

Should dept. offer a C# course with possible Microsoft certification?

- Not likely

CSE issues

Upgrade support system for large EU projects

- Extra accountant for one year while present staff is being trained

VP with President Markides on May 2

- VP effort for CE started

Should each division have an explicit publishing strategy?

- In a word: no.

Process for finding new Department Head has started

Chalmers/GU issues

National Dept. of Education likely to increase pressure for gender equality

- What can we do here?

New round of AoA junior faculty positions (FoAss) to be posted!

- Please consider names for people we'd like to hire.

AOI

Outlook calendar supposedly works as promised (finally)

- Imagine a world when this would not be considered "news". Oh well.

"Virtual meeting room" ordered for video conference system

- VCs will be possible with any party