UIUC Strategic Plan

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UIUC Strategic Plan

• Melanie Loots
• Ruth Watkins
• August 18, 2006

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Goals of this Presentation

• Highlight key priorities in the campus strategic
  plan
• Provide the opportunity for dialogue about the
  campus plan and the planning process

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Overarching Aims of the Strategic Plan

• Establish the University of Illinois Urbana
  Champaign as the indisputable leader among public
  research institutions
• Promote an environment in which compelling,
  path-breaking scholarship, education, and
  engagement emerge and flourish

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Strategic Vision (under construction)

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Strategic Planning as an Ongoing Process

• A living document
• Updates in campus plan underway through working
  groups of the Council of Deans
• Refinement of strategic plan will continue
  throughout the five-years of implementation

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Significant Research Goals Outlined in the Campus
Strategic Plan

• Strengthen and Diversify the Research Portfolio
• Critical Initiatives in Research and Scholarship
  (CIRS)
• Illinois Informatics Initiative
• Integrated Sciences for Health Initiative
• Illinois Sustainable Energy and the Environment
  Initiative

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Strengthen and Diversify Funding for the Research
Portfolio

• Advance research and technology commercialization
  
• Support interaction of campus and corporations
  with OTM, research park
• Facilitate research grants and agreements

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Strengthen and Diversify Funding for the Research
Portfolio - Office of Corporate Relations

• Establish the new Office, developing a plan to
  strengthen corporate relations and increase
  corporate funding for research, in coordination
  with the Vice Chancellor for Development and
  Advancement.
• Phase IV expansion of the Research Park east of
  First Street - establish a thematic approach to
  marketing our economic development activities.

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Strengthen and Diversify Funding for the Research
Portfolio International Research Relations

• Build relationships with federal funding agencies
  and NGOs
• Expand international programs to include a
  physical presence in Singapore and greater
  engagement with universities and corporations in
  India and China

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Strengthen and Diversify Funding for the Research
Portfolio Federal Representation Strategy

• Advance Governmental Relations by crafting a
  representational program in Washington.
• Work with Argonne National Laboratory, its
  Science Policy Council and Board of Governors to
  successfully renew contract for management of
  Argonne (accomplished).

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Critical Initiatives in Research and Scholarship

• Expand our capacity to create multidisciplinary
  programs or projects that explore innovative
  ideas
• 1.75M in seed funding
• Special call for projects that address
  multidisplinary programs of societal import will
  fund 2-3 projects.
• Output Reports, Symposium
• Evaluation by Faculty Advisory
• Linkage to external funding opportunities

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Critical Initiatives in Research and Scholarship
Recently Funded

• Liberal Institutions, National Settings and
  Societal Welfare
• Renaissance Nation Modernisms in the Celtic and
  Harlem Revivals
• Underrepresented Minority Involvement in Science,
  Technology, Engineering and Mathematics
• Automated Methods for Second-Language Fluency
  Assessment
• Center for Transportation Systems Research
• Understanding Complex Interstellar Chemistry
  Using Molecular Ions

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Interdisciplinary Research Initiatives

• Faculty leadership
• Alignment of faculty excellence hires with
  initiatives
• This year
• Develop communications
• Identify priorities
• Work with campus to build support

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Integrated Sciences for Health

• Translational Research - Applying Illinois
  expertise to improving human health
• Identify faculty leadership and steering
  committee
• Negotiate partnership agreements with Carle and
  other partners
• Conduct gap analysis and optimize investments in
  faculty hiring
• Infrastructure to support collaboration and
  interaction with community health care
  institutions

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Integrated Sciences for Health

• Enhance research in health and wellness
• Determine most promising aspects.
• Define unique niche for UIUC
• Identify needed resources
• Continue to enhance life sciences research and
  education at Illinois

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Illinois Informatics Initiative

• An integrated approach to information systems
  research and education, focusing on knowledge
  creation in the natural sciences, the humanities,
  the social sciences, and the arts, and on
  decision support for business and government.
• Establish leadership committee to develop
  strategy
• Promote initiatives combining IT with other
  disciplines
• Utilize a virtual structure to organize activity
  across existing colleges
• Link to emerging campus initiatives, e.g.
  Information Trust Institute (ITI) and Institute
  for Advanced Computing Applications and
  Technologies (IACAT)

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Illinois Sustainable Energy and the Environment
Initiative

• Secure the economic future of the state and the
  nation by shaping the national research agenda
  for energy and environmental management.
• Nurture emerging leadership
• Enable interdisciplinary approaches to federal
  and private funding opportunities.
• Explore and implement measures to create a
  sustainable campus
• Establish state-wide program

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Ensure Excellence in Undergraduate and Graduate
Education

• Strengthen quality and diversity of student
  population
• Prepare students for lives of leadership in
  global contexts
• Ensure quality in academic programs and services
• Enhance graduate education

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Foster an Inclusive Campus Community

• Enhance the diversity of the University of
  Illinois community students, faculty, staff

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Engage Local and Global Communities

• Strengthen partnerships with local Champaign and
  Urbana communities
• Orchard Downs project
• Local schools engagement
• Build national and international partners
• Strategic geographic targets

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Summary

• The campus strategic plan . . .
• is designed to strengthen an institution of
  higher education with a well-established record
  of excellence
• is evolving and will evolve continuously over the
  next five years
• has tremendous potential to move the institution
  in bold new directions -- to address societys
  most pressing issues and to prepare future
  leaders
• will require decisions about allocation of
  resources to foster success