Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to share with you the latest developments in our Boundless Possibility strategic plan. Our message in March to the University community provided a progress update and information about engagement opportunities to provide feedback on the plan, discuss tactics, and share ideas about how to communicate ongoing work with the community and our many stakeholders. As we now enter the implementation phase, you will begin to receive regular updates from the Office of the Provost. We hope that these timely messages will create an ongoing dialogue about the successes and challenges we encounter as we work towards our goals.
Over the last three months, we have incorporated feedback from faculty, staff, students, alumni, and the Board of Trustees into the plan, updated web content, developed tactics for the 2023–2024 academic year, and refined measurements of success. We are creating a dashboard and communications plan to keep our constituents up to date as we move forward and will continue to offer ways for people to engage with the ongoing implementation of the plan.
We have heard from many of you that you would like to provide feedback on the ways you are contributing to our goals and objectives. Later this summer, the strategic plan website will include a tool for submitting those ideas and sharing the many ways our students, faculty, and staff are contributing to the success of the plan.
In the coming weeks we will identify leaders from across the organization who will oversee different initiatives, tactics, and projects associated with our goals and objectives, and we will continue to meet with faculty leaders, staff leaders, student representatives, and managers across the organization to discuss implementation of the plan.
All are invited to share ideas about the strategic plan with their leadership or representatives in these groups, submit feedback on the Boundless Possibility website, or attend one of our open forum Strategic Planning Discussion Sessions, which will take place later this summer and throughout the fall semester. Please also use these opportunities to offer any expertise you may have on any of the objectives!
Thank you to everyone who has helped us arrive at this point and to all of you for your continued hard work and effort as we move ahead.
Warm Regards,
Sarah C. Mangelsdorf
President and G. Robert Witmer, Jr. University Professor
David Figlio
Provost and Gordon Fyfe Professor of Economics and Education