Transcript Strategic Planning Open Forum President Bill Destler 14 May 2014 Forum Agenda • • • • • General comments about the process Update on progress to date Next Steps Major themes likely.

Strategic Planning
Open Forum
President Bill Destler
14 May 2014
Forum Agenda
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General comments about the process
Update on progress to date
Next Steps
Major themes likely to be represented in plan
Audience feedback on likely themes
General Comments
1. Process too fast
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Agility is critical
2004 Strategic Plan
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9 months from first Steering Committee meeting to Trustee
approval (October 2003 – July 2004)
8.5 weeks for Task Force work (January 5-March 5)
2025 Strategic Plan
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12 months from first Steering Committee meeting to Trustee
approval (November 2013-November 2014)
7.5 weeks for Part I Task Force work
11 weeks for Part II
General Comments (2)
2. Participation is limited
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2 open forums (December and May)
Full day Alumni Assn. meeting
Discussion Forum on SP Website
Trustee Strategic Planning Committee
6 Task Forces (>150 members)
Open Task Force meetings
Six Task Force wikis
Provost’s Town Hall meeting (~ 70
attendees)
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President’s Roundtable (1.5 days)
Full day April BoT meeting
2 conversations with Institute of Fellows
Conversation w/ Imaging Science Adv. Bd.
Presentations to all governance groups
President’s AMA on Reddit
~ 100 emails to SP email address
Alumni Survey (891 respondents)
4 “Salon for Strategic Thinking”
meetings
General Comments (3)
3. The following are the decisions that have already
been made:
Progress Update
• Mission and Vision
– Slightly modified since last shared
– Will be modified and shared again once SP draft is completed
• Part I of Task Force Reports received April 28
– Limited set of goals and strategies
– Approximate costs
• Part II due May 20 (was May 12)
– Rationale for each goal
– Executive summary
Next Steps
• Late May: Task Force Reports condensed and shared
electronically with the community
• Early June: Steering Committee consolidates and integrates
Task Force Reports and all other input
• Late June: Sub-committee of Steering Committee prepares
outline based upon above
• July 10 & 11: Trustee meeting dedicated to Strategic Plan
• July 15-Sept. 1: Writing sub-group of Steering Committee
composes SP draft
• Sept. 1-30: Campus input
• October: Draft revised
• Nov. 14: Trustees approve new Strategic Plan
Emerging Themes
• RIT as a research university
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We are entering the “Research University” category, and we must
embrace that descriptor as an important part of our identity
We will be a unique, mission-driven, distinctively RIT Research
University—one in which all constituents prosper
• RIT as a student-centric university
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Student Success will drive much of this plan—nothing new here
But the student population, the careers for which we are preparing
them, and the packaging of education they are seeking are in
constant flux; we must stay ahead of these changes
And we must anticipate new definitions of student success,
particularly with reference to career education (our signature
strength and advantage)
Emerging Themes (2)
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Other major themes that cut across all dimensions
– Interdisciplinarity (most frequently cited theme in all Task Force
reports)
– Expanded global reach and identity
– Innovation: culture of experimentation
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Diversity—with a broader meaning
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Traditional: Increase under-represented populations and enhance their
educational and professional opportunities
Expanded: Deploy our remarkable diversity—not only ethnic, racial, and
social but also programmatic, intellectual, experiential—as an engine of
innovation and creativity
Enabling Themes
• Changes to the way we do things
– Organizational
• Possible change in some organizational models (strategy drives
organizational models, not vice versa)
• Accounting processes
• Elimination of silos (academic, administrative, organizational)
– Cultural
• Willingness to take (calculated) risks
• Learning to value experimentation
• Leveraging difference to innovate and solve problems
– Space allocation (including greater deployment of virtual
space)
Influences We Can’t Ignore
• Demographics
• Affordability
• Accountability (to students; to parents; to
federal/state governments; to accreditors)
• Technology
Emerging and Enabling Themes:
Questions and Comments
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