Forming a Consortium

SUMMARY
A three-day workshop will be held for key stakeholders from each interested institution wishing to commit to the criteria defined in the draft version of the Organizational Options and Issues for Building Bamboo report. This workshop will formalize foundational partnerships for implementing the next tasks of the Arts and Humanities Services Roadmap report.

This workshop will walk through the methodology of our workshop process and also findings reflected in our reports: Scholarly Practice in the Arts and Humanities, the Arts and Humanities Services Roadmap, and the draft of Organizational Options and Issues for Building Bamboo.

Participants will be asked to evaluate the community-proposed roadmap in light of organizational and resources costs. We will continue to discuss local and national organizational models currently supporting humanities scholars. We will then assess what personnel and/or roles are needed to implement this roadmap at individual institutions and consortium-wide. We will design an initial organizational model(s) that would support these defined personnel: their roles, function, and communication channels. We will discuss specific institutional contributions, effort and resource requirements to serve as a founding member of this consortium.

Institutions expressing interest to be founding partners will help prepare an outline of a Bamboo Implementation Proposal to be submitted to the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, including required institutional documents. We will assign writing tasks, deadlines and follow-up meetings to complete this proposal.

DATES
Workshop 5: May 2009
Location to be Determined