Strategic Plan Refreshment: On Hold
A Strategic Plan Refreshment process was begun in 2012 to look at the progress made under the 2008 Strategic Plan and to refine and update the plan. However with the departure of President Walker, the refreshment process has been put on hold awaiting selection of a new UIU president.
BACKGROUND
Since 2004, there has been a newly determined effort to build on UIU's historic strengths and to reinterpret them for the rapidly evolving educational environment of the 21st century. Strategic initiatives launched in 2004 were followed in 2007 by a more comprehensive and formal strategic planning process that included a campus-led reexamination and rearticulation of UIU's mission and vision. The final version of the plan that emerged from a comprehensive 11-month process was approved by the Board of Trustees in 2008.
UIU STRATEGIC PLAN
The plan's nine strategic initiatives
"Pathway to Global Learning: A vision for UIU's future" Download the entire strategic plan (pdf)
WHY A "REFRESHMENT"
A discussion began in April 2011 about updating the then three-year-old strategic plan. The updating was not intended to repeat the detailed process of creating a new strategic plan, UIU had accomplished that in 2007/08, but rather to "refresh" the existing plan with the next transformative ideas that would continue the strategic advancement of UIU, to insure that past accomplishments were not lost, were sustained, but set the path for the continuing strategic progress of the University.
"REFRESHMENT" ACCOMPLISHMENTS PROGRESS TIMELINE
Latest Update: Notes of the May 8 meeting and expectations for September 26 meeting
Since the first strategic plan refreshment conversations in 2011 these steps have been accomplished:
- In May/June 2011 approximately 55 interviews were conducted in order to develop a "findings" report that created a consensus for the next strategic priorities of UIU;
- On August 31, 2011 the "findings" were presented to the campus wide community so that they understood the strategic priorities, appreciated the shortened "refreshment" process, and saw for the first time the four strategic planning objectives that emerged from the "findings" report;
Download the "findings" report as a pdf document - The four planning objectives from the "findings" report assigned to four free standing Task Forces were:
- 1. Student Centered Excellence: The First Priority
- 2. Institutional Architecture: Continue Progress and Make Transformative Recommendations for UIU: Set a Transformative Strategic Path for UIU
- 3. Sustain the Present, Secure Long-Term Financial Stability and Examine Resource Allocations: Ensure that UIU is on a Sound Financial Footing
- 4. Communications: Improve an Already Excellent Practice of University-wide Communications
Webpages of the Task Forces:
Task Force One: Student-Centered Excellence
Task Force Two: Institutional Architecture
Task Force Three: Financial Stability
Task Force Four: Communications
- In September 2011 there was consensus that the Steering Committee of the "refreshment" would consist of all members of the AQIP Steering Committee, volunteers from the Board of Trustees, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees, the President of UIU, Student Government Association representatives and the addition of others members of the UIU community that would assist with the need for specific talent on the Steering Committee;
- On November 10, 2011 the first meeting of the "Refreshment" Steering Committee met so as to understand the goals and objectives of the four work plans and to meet separately to create a first draft consensus within each of the four groups of the expectations for their performance up to the next meeting;
- On April 20, 2012 the current status of the planning process was presented to the Board of Trustees; the Trustees had the opportunity to both comment and offer their suggestions for transformative strategic ideas;
- On May 8, 2012 the results accomplished by each of the four Task Forces were reported, comments were made, and there was discussion of the expectations for the performance of each Task Force until the next steering committee meeting; Task Force Reports
Task Force One: Student-Centered Excellence
Task Force Two: Institutional Architecture
Task Force Three: Financial Stability
Task Force Four: Communications
- The current status of the Strategic Planning "Refreshment" process will be available on the UIU website, comments invited, so as to ensure that there is university wide appreciation for the planning progress made and planned;
- The next Steering Committee meeting is set for September 26, 2012;
- The University's Board of Trustees will be briefed on September 27, 2012 so that the Trustees have a clear understanding of the status of the "Refreshment" plan;
- Again the UIU website will be used to communicate the status of the "Refreshment" process prior to being submitted to the Board of Trustees for approval;
- Updates will resume when the refreshment process is active again.