Provost office release Strategic Plan, encourages comments

The Office of the Provost released the new IU Strategic Plan late Wednesday afternoon to be reviewed and open to public comment.

Provost Lauren Robel will discuss the plan during a town meeting March 4 and the State of the Campus Address March 25.

“The important thing to know about the plan that’s up now is that, while it’s a product of a lot of people’s thought, it is a draft,” Robel said at the Bloomington Professional Council meeting shortly after the plan was released. “So I really do want your comments and thoughts about it.”

The plan discusses six main categories — undergraduate life, graduate education, research, faculty development, globalization and internationalization and collaborative program initiatives.

“It’s designed to allow us not to be comprehensive, not to think about every single thing we want to do, but to think about some important things that we would like to accomplish between now and the time the odometer rolls over to century three,” Robel said in the meeting.

Robel said that there is about a month available for open comment.

167 faculty members, staff and students worked on the reports that went into the plan, Robel said.

“The goal of this big effort on everybody’s behalf is to get to a place where we can put together an academic plan for the campus that really anticipates how we can more the campus forward for the next six years, until we get to our bicentennial,” she said.

The draft is available online at plan.indiana.edu for comment by the community.

— Kathrine Schulze