Syracuse University Interim Vice Chancellor and Provost Elizabeth Liddy released the draft version of the university’s Academic Strategic Plan, and invited the community to an open comment period Thursday afternoon.

The Academic Strategic Plan is part of SU’s Fast Forward Initiative, launched by Chancellor Kent Syverud last year. The draft will have an open comment period from Thursday through next Friday. The draft reflects the vision and mission statements, findings of seven working groups and input from the SU community, Liddy said in the email.

The working groups in charge of the Academic Strategic Plan shared their findings with the SU community on Feb. 25 in a “Day of Conversation” and gathered input from the SU community about the plan.

The draft plan includes a draft version of a new vision statement, which reads, “Syracuse University aspires to be a pre-eminent and inclusive student-focused research university, preparing engaged citizens, scholars, and leaders for participation in a changing global society.”

The findings in the draft statement are grouped into six separate areas with goals and recommendations for each. The six separate areas are:

• The Student Experience
• Discovery
• Internationalization
• Veterans Affairs
• Innovation
• One University

Each area gives broad recommendations and goals and Liddy said in the email that “this document is a short, condensed version of the plan—and that a longer, more comprehensive report will also be developed to give additional context to the goals / recommendations.”

Following the end of the open comment period next Friday, the draft plan will go back to the Steering Committee to review the feedback and make revisions and will go to Syverud in late April before being given to the Board of Trustees in May, according to the email.

Published on April 2, 2015 at 4:52 pm

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