Strategic Plan 2025

Beautiful Solutions

Provost’s Spring Town Hall Meeting

14 March 2014 Jeremy Haefner

Kit Mayberry

Working Mission

Rochester Institute of Technology prepares students to thrive as

innovators, thinkers, and doers in the shifting careers of a global

knowledge economy. Educated at the intersections of technology and

the arts, imagination and application, rigor and curiosity, RIT prepares

its graduates to be the preferred candidates for a wide variety of far-

sighted employers and graduate schools whose requirements include

depth, breadth, practical experience, and technological expertise.

Working Vision

Through a dynamic educational model that blends learning, doing,

imagining, creating, and partnering within a student-centric culture, we

will prepare our students to excel in those careers in which depth,

versatility, ingenuity, and collegiality are prized.

Strategic Dimensions & Task Force Names

• Student Success

• Global Engagement and International Education

• Research and Graduate Education

• Curricular Innovation and Creativity

• Diversity

• Organizational Agility

Task Force Co-Chairs• Student Success:

Manny Contomonolis and Chris Licata

• Global Engagement & International Education: Zack Butler and Jim Myers

• Research and Graduate Education Callie Babbitt and Vicki Hanson

• Curricular Innovation and Creativity Deb Blizzard and Neil Hair

• Diversity Sharon Mason and Kevin McDonald

• Organizational Agility Amit Ray and Howard Ward

Schedule

 

1. Task Forces constituted February 24-March 4

2. Co-Chairs meet with President’s Roundtable March 20

3. Task Force progress reports to Trustees April 10

4. Task Force Reports due to SC Part I: April 28

Part II: May 12

5. Community discussion of TF Reports May 5-16

6. SC synthesizes reports and comments May 16-June 15

7. July Trustee meeting focuses on plan July 10-11

8. Steering Committee drafts plan July14-August 31

9. Community feedback on draft plan Sept. 1-22

10. Strategic Plan finalized by SC Sept. 23-Oct. 13

11. Final round of community discussion Oct. 13-31

12. Trustees approve planNovember 13-14

Task Force Membership Distribution

Faculty # Senate RepsCAST 5 1 (+2 invited & declined)

CHST 4

CIAS 7

CLA 6 1 (+ 2 invited & declined)

COS 9

GCCIS 6

KGCOE 6 1 (alternate)

NTID 8 1

SCB 6

CMS 1

GIS 2

Task Force Membership Distribution (2)

Deans 8

VP’s 2

Students 8

Staff Council (double-counted in divisions) 10

Trustees 6

President’s Roundtable 7

Alumni Assn. Board of Directors 5

Task Force Membership Distribution (3)

Academic Affairs 11

Community & Govt. Relations 2

Development 6

Diversity 13

Enrollment Mgmnt. & Career Services 5

Finance & Administration 9

President’s Office 2

Student Affairs 8

Task Force Charge (General)

Each task force will develop

•a limited set of clearly worded goals that when fully

achieved have a high likelihood of realizing at least one

facet of the Dimension statement and thus providing

progress towards the achievement of the new vision;

•a short set of actionable initiatives, or strategies, that

will contribute to the realization of each goal.

Task Force Deliverable (for sample purposes only)

Organizational Agility: RIT’s curricula, administrative, and organizational structures will serve, not impede, discovery, border-crossing, and collaboration among students, faculty, and staff. We will develop an operational culture in which good ideas find and drive the processes necessary to support them.

Goal 1:The January term will be dedicated to interdisciplinary innovation.

Strategy Associated Dimensions

Implementation Locus

Priority (H,M,L)

Cost Range

Time to Achievement

FundingSource

1a SS, CI

$$$ = > $5M$$ = $1M-$5M $ = < $1M

Task Force Deliverable (2)

1. Executive Summary:– Driving themes– Discrete or threaded goals?– Anticipated outcomes

2. Rationale for each goal and supporting strategy: how does the goal reinforce the vision?

Questions, Comments, Recommendations

Break-out Session #2

Assuming a high degree of organizational agility at RIT, participants will come up with a few highly innovative strategic goals that support the working vision.