Academic Plan for Implementing IUPUI's Mission
Introduction
IUPUI is Indiana’s premier urban public research institution. It is a place where IMPACT is made, and the Academic Plan provides a roadmap for ensuring that this impact is significant and long-lasting. Starting in Fall 2006, the IUPUI community has been engaged in activities that have supported the development of this Academic Plan – a strategic document aimed at making IUPUI’s academic programs as strong as possible and showcasing them aggressively. The Academic Plan is organized around four major goals, three which are the key components of the IUPUI mission, and a fourth that is intended to facilitate attainment of the other three goals in light of resource constraints:
- Excellence in Teaching and Learning
- Excellence in Research, Scholarship and Creative Activity
- Excellence in Civic Engagement
- Enhancement of the Resource Base
Between October 2006 and May 2007, Action Teams composed of faculty, staff, and students worked together to evaluate the current state of affairs and to make recommendations for improvements aligned with 70 specific action items that comprised the building blocks for the plan. The resulting Action Team reports were summarized and then shared with the campus community in Fall 2007 in order to foster further discussion and to invite feedback. The resulting Academic Plan has been carefully constructed through the synthesis and integration of these reports and the feedback that was received, as well as from other recent campus developments. Each of the four goals of the Academic Plan has a major underlying initiative:
- Goal 1: Enrollment Shaping Initiative
- Goal 2: Signature Centers Initiative
- Goal 3: Translating Research into Practice (TRIP)
- Goal 4: Fundraising Campaign
These initiatives have been shaped and chosen because of their fit with existing campus strengths, their alignment with strategic plans for Indiana University, their potential for helping IUPUI to achieve excellence as an urban research institution – and their capacity to immediately begin generating revenue that ensures their sustainability as well as the growth of related endeavors. Indeed, given the transformative potential of the major initiatives, considerable work to implement them is already in progress, even as the initiatives themselves acquire better definition.
Although the four major initiatives are clearly the pillars on which the IUPUI Academic Plan rests, other key focus areas have been identified that help to further refine and shape the plan.
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