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The goal isn't to fill 150 hours. It's that every hour spent directing this work returns several back. That only happens if each stream ends in something reusable — a page, a dataset, a documented process — rather than a task completed and forgotten.
The current site is badly out of date and it's the first thing a prospective student sees. Benchmark against other Gonzaga disciplines — marketing especially — then pull structure and language from stronger MIS programs: Colorado, Notre Dame, Arizona State, Arkansas.
Done looks like: a benchmark memo, then live updated pages.Who our students actually are and where they land. Demographics, second majors and concentration pairings — MIS with finance looks like the most common — and employment outcomes after graduation. Institutional Research is the source for anything we can't pull ourselves.
Done looks like: a working dashboard you can open in a faculty meeting.Two halves. He runs the literature review and project scoping workflows already built, starting with the revise-and-resubmit that's blocking the coauthor send. Alongside that, he builds a training program that teaches the research process itself — so the next assistant starts further along than he did.
Done looks like: the R&R unblocked, plus a training doc that outlives him.Built in Claude Code against the GitHub repo, so both of you can read and edit it from your own Claude environments. Running list, status, notes, hours logged. Build it early — everything else runs through it.
Done looks like: in daily use by week three, and copyable for the next GA.Rubric-driven passes with your review on anything borderline. Set the boundary in the first meeting: what he scores independently, what comes back to you.
Done looks like: a consistent turnaround you stop thinking about.How peer institutions name this discipline nationally — MIS, IS, BMIS, business analytics, or some combination. Feeds the renaming question and the multi-year course and credit planning behind it.
Done looks like: a comparison table plus a recommendation you can take to the faculty.He gets trained on the system and stages entries correctly, so your involvement is review and submit. Small hours, disproportionate relief.
Done looks like: nothing sitting in your queue at month end.A regular note from the discipline to current and prospective students — placements, projects, what's coming. The point is pulling more students toward MIS, so it needs to carry actual news.
Done looks like: two issues sent, with a repeatable format.If only one thing lands this semester, it's the MIS site — rebuilt, current, and something the discipline can point at.
If two land, the second is the student data portal, because it's the first time we'd be able to answer who our students are and where they go with evidence instead of impression.