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The goal of this phase is to introduce the campus and its community to the visioning process. Convened by Vice Provost and Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Affairs, Jeff Cox, these conversations introduce the committee and the listeners, allow the committee to get to know various concerned groups and work to build trust in this process. All members of our community, faculty, staff, and students, are invited and encouraged to participate in these meetings.  

Discussions at these meetings will be taken down by a scribe and a summary will be posted on the website. These documents will be reports of ideas, not recommendations, decisions, etc. Please note that we will be in touch with various groups to request meetings; groups can also request meetings through the website.

Campus involvement in the Academic Futures: Rethinking the university – the futures of learning and discovery process is critical for its success. The more you are involved, the more the results will reflect your ideas. We are looking for Campus Listeners and and Academic Futures Committee members.

After ideas and aspirations are gathered through initial meetings and through the website, the Academic Futures Committee will convene a series of more focused, facilitated conversations. These may center on particular issues and ideas or bring together particular groups around education, scholarly work, and service and leadership. These meetings will be opened by members of the committee or other appropriate academic leaders. Professional facilitators will be on hand to guide the conversations and to record ideas, with these reports again being posted to website.

Our greatest asset in this visioning effort is our community. You have great ideas about where we should be headed. To make sure that we hear all of these ideas, campus leadership invites you to gather together and develop community white papers.

Some guidelines:

• Topics for campus discussion? A vision for who we want to be? A picture of what the future could look like? A critical synergy we are not taking advantage of? Anything that is important to you and your community
• Target 3-5 pages (in pdf form)
• Due: December 15, 2017 but welcome at any time

Abstracts of the white papers will be posted on the website and will be used to inform conversations at future community meetings. 

The Academic Futures Committee will discuss and review summaries and the rest of the combined input from the campus (including white papers, e-mails, notes from town halls, themed discussions, Faculty Forums and departmental discussions). Throughout the spring, the committee will regularly preview themes likely to appear in the final report with the campus community, seeking further feedback.

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The Committee will issue a draft report to the campus by September, 2018.

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By October 1, 2018, the Provost and the SVC, taking the report along with other comments and recommendations under advisement, will issue final recommendations regarding the academic vision and will open discussions of how to put these ideas into practice.

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