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College Strategic Planning Efforts
For the past 18 months, the College of Education faculty, staff and students have been heavily engaged in developing a new roadmap for the College of the future. Along with the University and Urbana-Champaign Campus, we have looked at our strengths, analyzed our weaknesses and established a shared vision of what the College of Education at the University of Illinois will be known for in the years ahead. This is a continual process and while we will continue to refine, update and revisit the critical components of this plan, we want to share our progress with you. Use the links below to explore the College of Education's plans for the future.
- The College Strategic Plan
- New Strategic Initiatives
- Intellectual Foundations of the College
- Public Presentations About the Strategic Plan
- Faculty and Staff Planning Resources (limited access to College of Education personnel)
The College Strategic Plan: 2007 - 2010
The College of Education has submitted an institutional plan to the Provost of the Urbana-Champaign Campus. This plan, drafted by the faculty, staff and students of the College, will be a guide to the where we go and how we get there in the coming years. From new breakthrough thinking in critical areas to continually improving our teaching, scholarship and service - we have established a framework of measurable goals that build on our 100 year history while ensuring our successful future.
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The plan outlines broad strategic goals and identifies metrics for measuring progress against them. The five major divisions of the new plan are:
- Innovating and Continuing Excellence in our core activities of research, teaching and service.
- Diversifying sources of and increasing overall operating income.
- Focusing efforts on four strategic initiatives aligned to Strategic Campus Goals for preeminence and to garner new external investment.
- Redeveloping the intellectual foundations of the College to align our scholarship, culture and practice with our strategies for growth.
- Rescuing and revitalizing facilities and organizational culture
Strategic Initiatives and Intellectual Foundations - Draft Submissions from Working Groups
Throughout the fall, task forces of faculty, staff, students and friends of the College worked to develop initial draft documents outlining, in greater detail, the goals and aspirations of the institution in the four new strategic initiatives and five intellectual foundation areas named in the plan. These are draft, working documents, still going through review and revision in the College. They are starting points, really for the conversations - not the final word on the matter. The four strategic initiative documents are here as PDF files. The five discussions around the intellectual foundations are undergoing an initial review and will be posted here shortly.
The Center for Education in Small Urban Communities
The Forum on the Future of Public Education
The Ubiquitous Learning Institute
Science, Technology, Engineerig and Mathmatics (STEM) Education Initiative
Dean/Leadership Team Presentations on the Planning Process
Dean Kalantzis and the College Leadership Team have had the opportunity to deliver presentations on the strategic planning efforts to members of the University community. PDF versions of these will be available here for review.