20110404

CE "biweekly" meeting

April 4, 2011

Personnel

Reminder about Handledarforum
Alejandro Russo: Tenure-track offer?

- To be discussed in Kollegium

Dave Whalley (Florida) gets Fulbright funding to spend sabbatical at CE

Teaching

Admissions done

- 2 admitted per slot for non-EU, 1.6 per slot for EU

Names for MP coordinators ready:

- CSALL: Peter Damaschke

- SE: Miroslaw Staron

- CSN: Elad Schiller

- EESD: Kjell Jeppson

- GU: Graham Kemp

Problems with course code sharing with GU

- According to GU rules, a re-sit opportunity must be rather soon after the original exam (at Chalmers, it can be 5 months)

- We might have to remove the courses from the GU course catalog...

Proposal to give a premium to the best master thesis each year

Research and Proposals

New research school for Areas of Advance

- Will work as overlay for existing schools

- Will offer courses in "industrial" skills

Research schools will review eachother in 2012

CSE issues

CSE supports a language technology center at GU (dept. of Swedish)
Pedagogical mentorship for PhD Students

- Meetings, discussions before first teaching opportunity

Lunch room remodeling starts on June 14

- No spa and beauty salon, sorry (ref. April 1st hoax)

VP redux: adjunct teachers urgently sought!

Chalmers issues

All card readers at entrances to be replaced

- Cards are now unobtainable

New system being evaluated for exam result handling

AOI

Student Unions approaching govt. for visa status change for PhD students

- About time, too!