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Through your hard work and dedication, we have made tremendous progress along our Strategic Plan 2020. Launched in 2015, it has served as a map enabling a laser focus on our activities and initiatives. We have grown in size and reputation, and we are increasingly being looked at locally and nationally as a thought-leader and innovator in higher education. Your achievements are propelling us to ever higher levels of excellence, ensuring that we better serve our students, the DFW metroplex, and the state and nation. Thank you for your efforts that have made this progress possible.
Strategic Plans are not static documents, but need to be reassessed and revised periodically. While we are still only a bit more than halfway through our Strategic Plan, we are already involved in a re-evaluation of our plan, its progress, and how it might be revised to better position the University. Over the past six months we have been engaged in assessing progress, revisiting goals and targets, and sharpening our focus. It should be emphasized that this activity is not to develop a new plan but to update our current plan, remaining on path toward the Vision we set collectively a few years ago, and holding firm to our cherished values.
The Provost has been working diligently with the Deans over the past six months, resulting in some wonderful ideas. While I’m sure the Deans have involved all of you in deep discussions as they brought input to us, we believe that it would be advantageous for the University to benefit from your direct input and participation in this process. In order to initiate this, two special sessions have been scheduled:
- Oct. 5 from 8:00 – 9:30 a.m. in The Commons, Nueces Room, 2nd floor
- Oct. 10 from 2:00 – 3:30 p.m. in The Commons, Nueces Room, 2nd floor
We hope that many of you will be able to attend one of these and will register so we can plan accordingly. Please note that space may be limited for these first sessions, so we will start on a first register, first served basis.
We look forward to seeing you and to gaining from your experience in ensuring that we continue moving this amazing institution forward to ever higher levels of excellence—setting standards for others to follow.
Sincerely,
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