Cross Dining Program

Olin/Babson: Babson students can eat up to 20 meals per semester as part of their meal plan at Olin’s Campus Center Dining Hall. Olin students have unlimited meals available at Trim Dining Hall at Babson.

Olin/Wellesley: Cross-registered Olin students may eat meals at the Campus Center Dining Hall on Wellesley’s campus. Cross-registered Wellesley students may eat meals at Olin’s Campus Center Dining Hall.

Babson/Wellesley: Cross-registered Babson students may eat meals at the Campus Center Dining Hall on Wellesley’s campus. Cross-registered Wellesley students may eat meals at Trim Dining Hall on the Babson campus.

Shared Workspace Repository

http://wikis.olin.edu/bow (access currently restricted)

Main contacts are Bob Bossange at Wellesley College, Mary Rose at Babson College, and Joanne Kossuth at Olin College.

Regular Meetings of VPs and Deans

Quarterly meetings of the Chief Academic Officers, Chief Financial Officers and Vice Presidents of Administration/Operations. Monthly meetings main college liaisons.

Parking

Effective February 14, 2011 the three colleges are piloting a new parking program for faculty and staff to assist with collaborative work and meetings, Babson and Olin faculty and staff who are attending meetings on the Wellesley campus no longer need a special parking permit as long as their vehicle displays either an Olin or a Babson sticker. Babson and Olin faculty and staff may park in the Davis Parking facility on the Wellesley campus.

Wellesley faculty and staff who are attending meetings on the Babson or Olin Campus may park in designated faculty/staff or visitor lots without showing a special parking permit as long as their vehicle displays a Wellesley sticker. Please note that any other violations such as parking in handicap spaces or fire lanes will be ticketed as usual.

Project Workgroups

Admission: Regular meetings and joint sponsorship tours for guidance counselors.

Archiving and Storage: Identifying requirements and pursuing inter-campus opportunities.

Calendar Group: Joint calendar planning.

Communication/PR: regular meetings and work on the content of the BOW website.

Compliance: Defining requirements and devising a strategy for resource sharing in this expanding area.

Emergency Planning and Business Continuity: Defining the intersection of existing plans and working on a tri-campus plan.

Event, Conferences and Summer Programs: Sharing information on events, conferences and programs and exploring synergies for potential revenue generation and facilities sharing.

Facilities and Space Sharing: Inventory of available spaces, inventory of needs (unmet) and sharing of potential solutions.

Human Resources: Sharing professional development resources and programs, joint listing of position openings, potential short term shared employment and work on health management initiatives.

Information Technology: Completing a direct connection to Wellesley for tri-campus connectivity loop, improving the student experience with the goal of a seamless experience through federated identity management, sharing information security resources.

Library: Shared collections, shared cataloguing, the creation of a skin or one web page to access all three library resources, digital preservation and institutional repositories.

Post Graduate Planning: Shared invitations to career fairs, ongoing meetings, shared internship and other opportunities when appropriate.

Public Safety: Understanding requirements and the potential for shared services.

Transportation: Ongoing meetings and focus on support of the academic and social programs (also impacted by the facilities and space sharing group).

Other Happenings

  • An Olin student working on natural/green landscaping for the Olin Large Project Building with Wellesley faculty.
  • IT Staff meet and greet reception.
  • All Staff reception to be held in April.
  • Shared sustainability resources and meetings, from a facilities perspective.
  • Wellesley staff serving as Olin’s sponsored research staff to help fill an employment vacancy.
  • Joint visits by international higher education institutions to all three campuses.
  • Newly announced faculty and staff reciprocal parking program.