It strikes me that at what is an important moment of consultation we ought to try in some way to involve students and faculty on all Miami campuses in the discussions now planned for February 24th and March 16th.

IF, as is likely the case, we cannot get everybody into the same place at the same time i wonder if colleagues on different campuses might not stage broadly simlar exercises and the we can correlate any resultant information.

To recapitulate; the idea is to stage an informal conversation with CW students (and i'm not sure that we might not be smart to invite all English majors) about current provision and to perform some variation on a classic SWOT analysis (strength . weaknesses . opportunities and threats) in order to help us to move forwards with ideas to develop and perhaps enhance the program in CW at Miami?


cris