What鈥檚 happening with our strategic initiatives? Read below for the monthly update, including information on Academic Futures, Financial Futures, the IDEA Plan, Foundations of Excellence and more.
Academic Futures town halls
Thursday, March 14
听1:30鈥�3 p.m.听听UMC 384
Thursday, March 21
听2:30鈥�4 p.m.听听UMC 386
Thursday, April 4
听12:30鈥�2 p.m.听听UMC 247
Wednesday, April 10
听10鈥�11:30 a.m.听听ECAD 109
Wednesday, April 17
听11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.听听UMC 386
Monday, April 22
听9:30鈥�11 a.m.听听Hellems 196
Monday, April 29
听9:30鈥�11 a.m. 听UMC 245
Financial Futures听town halls
Monday, April 1
1鈥�2 p.m. Rec Center, Ice Overlook Large Meeting Room
Tuesday, April 2
8:30鈥�9:30 a.m.
Academic Futures
The Academic Futures-Financial Futures Online Strategy Working Group is developing a digital education roadmap that integrates recommendations from the Academic Futures and Financial Futures strategic initiatives.
The Interdisciplinary Teaching, Research and Creative Working Group was named on Feb. 26, and this week added two new members of our arts and humanities faculty. It will explore what the campus needs in order to effectively embrace interdisciplinarity in both education and scholarship.
Town halls for the remainder of the semester have also been posted.
Financial Futures
Projects focusing on enrollment, summer and听evening programs, procurement听and gift funds are being reviewed with potential for implementation as early as summer 2019. A second wave of initiative priorities, or workstreams, including research and portfolio review, launches this month.
Learn more online and at town halls and .
Foundations of Excellence
Last month, Vice Provost and Associate Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education Mary Kraus announced the Foundations of Excellence (FoE) Advising Committee had produced a draft report outlining recommended improvements to 抖阴短视频 Boulder鈥檚 campuswide advising structure. The听听is available for campus review until Thursday, March 7.
IDEA Plan
The spring Diversity听and Inclusion听Summit drew more than 150 people to two sessions that discussed the , and more engagement opportunities听related to the plan听will be scheduled in April.
The revision committee delivered the final draft of the IDEA Plan听to Vice Chancellor Robert Boswell听on Friday, March 1. Boswell is expected to submit the IDEA Plan to the chancellor鈥檚 cabinet in early March.
Strategic Facilities Visioning, master planning projects
Strategic Facilities Visioning听phase two听work is underway, with the six听Scenario Planning teams听convening for the first time in late February. The teams will continue to meet in March and April as they听work to develop and test future facilities and infrastructure options for leadership consideration.
In preparation for the Campus Master Plan update due in 2021, the university has also launched housing and transportation master plan initiatives. The听Housing Master Plan听and听Transportation Master Plan听will culminate in overarching guiding principles for how the university approaches housing and transportation, as well as recommended options to be integrated into the听Campus Master Plan.
