Update from Jerold S. Goldberg, Interim Provost
To the Members of the University Community:
We're less than a week away from the next opportunity for all members of the university community to participate in the process of developing a strategic plan for the institution. Early next week we'll post a web-based survey that will ask for your thoughts about opportunities and issues you consider important to the university's future.
Over the coming months, there also will be forums and focus group sessions at the university level as well as within each of the schools.
Many of you have heard President Snyder or me talk about working together with the university community to shape a strategic plan for the entire institution and its academic units. This plan will focus primarily on academic strategy at both the university and school levels but will include institutional goals and objectives as well.
Our goal is to complete the plan by May 2008. Planning activities are under way in the academic units, and the University Plan Steering Committee has been meeting regularly to advance the process at the institutional level. You can learn much more about the planning process at http://www.case.edu/provost/uplan. That site will include a link to the on-line survey when it is posted next week and will continue to be updated as the planning process proceeds.
As we move through this strategic planning process, my colleagues and I make two commitments to you. First, it will be transparent, with regular progress reports to the campus. Second, it will be participatory, with opportunities for all university constituencies to be heard and to influence the outcome.
The final university plan needs to bring together the best thinking of all members of our community to advance the institution in the years ahead. President Snyder and I will do everything we can to make it possible for you to be engaged in our future, but we need you to participate to ensure the best possible outcome.
Sincerely,
Jerold S. Goldberg
Interim Provost