Strategic Planning Open Forum

1. Strategic PlanningOpen Forum President Bill Destler 14 May 2014

2. Forum Agenda • General comments about the process • Update on progress to date • Next Steps • Major themes likely to be represented in plan • Audience feedback on likely themes

3. General Comments • Process too fast • Agility is critical • 2004 Strategic Plan • 9 months from first Steering Committee meeting to Trustee approval (October 2003 – July 2004) • 8.5 weeks for Task Force work (January 5-March 5) • 2025 Strategic Plan • 12 months from first Steering Committee meeting to Trustee approval (November 2013-November 2014) • 7.5 weeks for Part I Task Force work 11 weeks for Part II

4. General Comments (2) • Participation is limited • 2 open forums (December and May) • Full day Alumni Assn. meeting • Discussion Forum on SP Website • Trustee Strategic Planning Committee • 6 Task Forces (>150 members) • Open Task Force meetings • Six Task Force wikis • Provost’s Town Hall meeting (~ 70 attendees) • President’s Roundtable (1.5 days) • Full day April BoT meeting • 2 conversations with Institute of Fellows • Conversation w/ Imaging Science Adv. Bd. • Presentations to all governance groups • President’s AMA on Reddit • ~ 100 emails to SP email address • Alumni Survey (891 respondents) • 4 “Salon for Strategic Thinking” meetings

5. General Comments (3) • The following are the decisions that have already been made:

6. Progress Update • Mission and Vision • Slightly modified since last shared • Will be modified and shared again once SP draft is completed • Part I of Task Force Reports received April 28 • Limited set of goals and strategies • Approximate costs • Part II due May 20 (was May 12) • Rationale for each goal • Executive summary

7. Next Steps • Late May: Task Force Reports condensed and shared electronically with the community • Early June: Steering Committee consolidates and integrates Task Force Reports and all other input • Late June: Sub-committee of Steering Committee prepares outline based upon above • July 10 & 11: Trustee meeting dedicated to Strategic Plan • July 15-Sept. 1: Writing sub-group of Steering Committee composes SP draft • Sept. 1-30: Campus input • October: Draft revised • Nov. 14: Trustees approve new Strategic Plan

8. Emerging Themes • RIT as a research university • We are entering the “Research University” category, and we must embrace that descriptor as an important part of our identity • We will be a unique, mission-driven, distinctively RIT Research University—one in which all constituents prosper • RIT as a student-centric university • Student Success will drive much of this plan—nothing new here • But the student population, the careers for which we are preparing them, and the packaging of education they are seeking are in constant flux; we must stay ahead of these changes • And we must anticipate new definitions of student success, particularly with reference to career education (our signature strength and advantage)

9. Emerging Themes (2) • Other major themes that cut across all dimensions • Interdisciplinarity(most frequently cited theme in all Task Force reports) • Expanded global reach and identity • Innovation: culture of experimentation • Diversity—with a broader meaning • Traditional: Increase under-represented populations and enhance their educational and professional opportunities • Expanded: Deploy our remarkable diversity—not only ethnic, racial, and social but also programmatic, intellectual, experiential—as an engine of innovation and creativity

10. Enabling Themes • Changes to the way we do things • Organizational • Possible change in some organizational models (strategy drives organizational models, not vice versa) • Accounting processes • Elimination of silos (academic, administrative, organizational) • Cultural • Willingness to take (calculated) risks • Learning to value experimentation • Leveraging difference to innovate and solve problems • Space allocation (including greater deployment of virtual space)

11. Influences We Can’t Ignore • Demographics • Affordability • Accountability (to students; to parents; to federal/state governments; to accreditors) • Technology

12. Emerging and Enabling Themes: Questions and Comments

13. Leave a note as you leave.