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Academic Strategic Strengths
Group Progress

Last updated: October 30, 2007

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Progress Phase Descriptions

Phase I:
Initiation and Leadership Organization

Formal Leader: Provost
Significant Activities
  • Initial leadership group assembled
  • Faculty explore opportunities during envisioning retreat
Principal Goal(s)
  • Assemble a group of faculty for each strength who can help to
    • lead the process
    • identify and assemble a relevant group of their peers
    • lead the discussion about the opportunities present in each proposed strength
Recurrence & Timeline

Not expected to reoccur unless we identify a new strength

Phase II:
Formation and Strategic Vision Development

Formal Leader: Organizing Committee
Significant Activities
  • Initial strategic vision drafted
  • Strategic vision vetted with campus academic community
  • Strategic vision finalized
  • Deans' committee discusses / debates the vision
Principal Goal(s)
  • Ensure that the strategic strengths process is broad and inclusive and principally informed by the faculty members
  • Identify the intersection of our existing strengths with the most promising future opportunities
  • Formulate a vision for growing and investing in the development of the strategic strength
  • Communicate the vision to the deans and discuss/debate the opportunities
Recurrence & Timeline

Expected to reoccur only if it is determined that the vision requires a significant redefinition or revisualization

Phase III:
Establishment and Implementation

Formal Leader: Coordinating Committee
Significant Activities
  • Coordinating Committee deliberates on how to best support the vision
  • Hiring and resource plans developed by the Faculty Advisory Committee and the deans of the Coordinating Committee
  • Plans presented to provost for endorsement
  • Individual deans begin to align decanal resources with the vision
Principal Goal(s)
  • Identify how the units and the campus can best support the strengths
  • Begin to align resources to support the strategic vision for the strength
  • Determine ways in which the campus can contribute to the deans‘ efforts to support the strength
Recurrence & Timeline

Expected to reoccur only if it is determined that the vision requires a significant redefinition or revisualization

Phase IV:
Operation

Formal Leader: Coordinating Committee
Significant Activities
  • Faculty Advisory Committee members and members of the defined strategic strength oversight group:
    • participate in hiring committees as appropriate
    • organize and complete tasks and activities relevant to the achievement of the strength vision
  • New members serve terms as members of the Faculty Advisory Committee
  • Coordinating Committee regularly reviews the investment and support strategy and adjusts as appropriate
  • Individual deans continue to identify ways in which the needs of the strategic strength intersect with their programmatic and unit needs and identify ways in which both can be accomplished
  • Coordinating Committee makes regular report to the provost concerning the successes and challenges of the strength
Principal Goal(s)
  • Ensure that we are making measured and consistent progress toward achieving the goals and objectives of the strategic strength vision
  • Ensure active participation from cognoscente faculty in the continuing development of the strength
  • Ensure accountability for achieving success
Recurrence & Timeline

Regular and ongoing activity

Phase V:
Periodic Reevaluation

Formal Leader: Faculty Advisory Committee
Significant Activities
  • Faculty Advisory Committee conducts a regular review of progress to date
  • Faculty Advisory Committee rationalizes the need to adjust the vision based on established critical success factors, emerging opportunities, and existing strengths
  • Faculty Advisory Committee makes recommendation to the Coordinating Committee about how to adjust the vision for the strength
  • Coordinating Committee discusses the FAC recommendations and determines the type of action needed
Principal Goal(s)
  • Ensure that the vision for the strength continues to be relevant
Recurrence & Timeline

Every two years