S TRATEGIC P LAN 2025 B EAUTIFUL S OLUTIONS 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 RoundtableMarch 20 3.Task Force progress reports to TrusteesApril 10 4.Task Force Reports due to SCPart I: April 28 Part II: May 12 5.Community discussion of TF ReportsMay SC synthesizes reports and commentsMay 16-June 15 7.July Trustee meeting focuses on planJuly Steering Committee drafts planJuly14-August 31 9.Community feedback on draft planSept Strategic Plan finalized by SCSept. 23-Oct Final round of community discussionOct Trustees approve planNovember 13-14

Task Force Membership Distribution Faculty # Senate Reps CAST 51 (+2 invited & declined) CHST 4 CIAS 7 CLA 61 (+ 2 invited & declined) COS 9 GCCIS 6 KGCOE61 (alternate) NTID 81 SCB 6 CMS 1 GIS 2

Task Force Membership Distribution (2) Deans8 VP’s2 Students8 Staff Council (double-counted in divisions) 10 Trustees6 President’s Roundtable7 Alumni Assn. Board of Directors5

Task Force Membership Distribution (3) Academic Affairs11 Community & Govt. Relations2 Development6 Diversity13 Enrollment Mgmnt. & Career Services5 Finance & Administration9 President’s Office2 Student Affairs8

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 Funding Source 1aSS, 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.