Blue Sky Taskforce’s report ‘done, but not public yet’

Thane Himes

The Blue Sky Taskforce finished its final report and turned it in to College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean Michael Whiteford’s office last Wednesday.

Blue Sky is the team of faculty from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in charge of brainstorming ideas to make LAS more financially efficient.

“We’d like to keep things within myself and the task force for now,” Whiteford said. “I don’t think it would be fair yet to release it to the public before all of the task force has seen the final report.”

At the time of turning in the report, not all of the members of Blue Sky had had a chance to see the final draft. Whiteford gave everyone on the committee a copy, and a meeting will be organized in which Whiteford will sit down with the entire task force and discuss the report.

“I’d like to be able to hear what everyone in [Blue Sky] has to say,” Whiteford said. “It’s important to get everyone’s viewpoints before we go ahead and inform the public.”

The report primarily contains ideas and plans concepts on how to potentially reorganize LAS to offer as many classes with as much variety as possible while maintaining financial efficiency during these times of consistent budget cuts.