{"id":177,"date":"2007-05-11T02:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-11T02:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insidersed.wordpress.com\/2007\/05\/11\/executive-interview-series-part-ii-brendon-goodmurphy\/"},"modified":"2007-05-11T02:15:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-11T02:15:00","slug":"executive-interview-series-part-ii-brendon-goodmurphy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/2007\/05\/11\/executive-interview-series-part-ii-brendon-goodmurphy\/","title":{"rendered":"Executive interview series part II: Brendon Goodmurphy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><em><\/em>The series resumes, at last, with a conversation with our AMS VP Academic.<\/em><br \/><span><\/span><br \/>Brendon and I sat down today to discuss U-boulevard, the new Acadmic quality committee, &#8220;consultation,&#8221; daycare, and the AMS-university relationship.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">have a listen <a href=\"http:\/\/media.putfile.com\/interview-with-brendon\">HERE<\/a> <span style=\"font-size:0\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size:100%\">Some randomly summarized items are:<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:100%\">AMS Planning &amp; Developement committtee is coming up with a concrete consultation plan to accompany the U-boulevard policy so that the university knows what students expect in terms of &#8220;meaningful consulttion&#8221;.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:100%\">Personal relationships with UBC officials often prove more effective htan official venues like boards and committees.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:100%\">the newly-hired assistant VP academic (Blake frederick) is going to revive the AMS teacher evaluation publication, Yardstick.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:100%\">AMS had commited 1 million dollars over 10 years to build chilcare &#8211; the construction awaits commitment from the BC government and additiional commitment from UBC.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:100%\">To me, the theme that came out was in this conversation communication. Brendon has been writing alot of letters, and sitting on alot of committees. More importantly though, he&#8217;s realized that communicating properly, openly, and appropriately with both students and UBC officials is what&#8217;s going to get things done in this highly sensetive portfolio.<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The series resumes, at last, with a conversation with our AMS VP Academic.Brendon and I sat down today to discuss U-boulevard, the new Acadmic quality committee, &#8220;consultation,&#8221; daycare, and the AMS-university relationship. have a listen HERE Some randomly summarized items are: AMS Planning &amp; Developement committtee is coming up with a concrete consultation plan to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":654,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,1234,5039],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ams","category-development","category-student-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/654"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ubcinsiders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}