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President Mote's Announcement
Dear University of Maryland Family:
The University of Maryland's Strategic Plan, completed in the spring of 2000, has served us well as a cogent statement of shared values and a robust guide for institutional development. (See http://www.provost.umd.edu/Strategic_Planning/Plan.html) Significant changes in the University and in its environment over time, along with insights derived from the recent institutional self-study and the associated review recommendations from the recent Middle States Association reaccreditation process (see http://www.ms07.umd.edu/), have made clear the need to revisit the Plan. I am writing now to describe the process we will use to produce a new Strategic Plan for the University of Maryland.
In coordination with the University Senate's Executive Committee, I have appointed a Strategic Planning Steering Committee (SPSC) to oversee the development of the Plan. With Provost Nariman Farvardin as Chair and Senate Chair William Montgomery as Vice-Chair, the SPSC includes all six University vice presidents, who ultimately will be tasked with implementation of the Plan, as well as important external stakeholders, deans, faculty, staff, and students from our community. The SPSC roster is appended below. It is essential to note that, beyond the SPSC, there will be continuous and robust participation of the entire community through defined task groups as well as through frequent requests and opportunities for individual input at all stages of the process. Further information concerning the process, the Steering Committee, the timetable, progress reports, and requests for input will be found on a web site now under construction at http://www.sp07.umd.edu/
We have set an ambitious schedule for this process. My intention is to have a completed and already well-vetted Plan submitted to the University Senate for final discussion and endorsement at its meeting on April 21, 2008. I ask for your collaboration in achieving this goal.
Your sincerely,
C. D. Mote, Jr.
President
Steering Committee
STRATEGIC PLANNING STEERING COMMITTEE ROSTER Nariman Farvardin Chair Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost William Montgomery Vice-Chair Chair University Senate, Professor, School of Music Andrew Baden Chair, Department of Physics Jack Baker Director, Operations and Maintenance, Facilities Management Kathryn Bartol Professor, Robert H. Smith School of Business Elizabeth Beise Professor, Department of Physics Mel Bernstein Vice President for Research Ira Chinoy Associate Professor, Philip Merrill College of Journalism Linda Clement Vice President for Student Affairs Doug Duncan Vice President for Administrative Affairs Devin Ellis Graduate Student Robert Gold Dean, School of Public Health Irwin Goldstein Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, University System of Maryland Jeffrey Huskamp Vice President and Chief Information Officer Steven Hutcheson Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics Clifford Kendall Chair, University System of Maryland Board of Regents Victor Korenman Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics Elizabeth Loizeaux Associate Dean, College of Arts and Humanities William Mayer Chair, University of Maryland College Park Foundation Board of Trustees Kim Montague-Smith Executive Administrative Assistant, Department of Animal and Avian Sciences Edward Montgomery Dean, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences Melissa Morales Undergraduate Student Darryll Pines Chair, Department of Aerospace Engineering Marvin Rabovsky Immediate Past President, University of Maryland Alumni Association Board of Governors Brodie Remington Vice President for University Relations Jonathan Wilkenfeld Professor, Department of Government and Politics; Director, Center for International Development and Conflict Management Ann Wylie Assistant President and Chief of Staff; Professor, Department of Geology