Strategic planning yields 'A Framework for the Future'

Eighteen months ago, Chancellor Michael Aiken launched a
strategic planning exercise on the Urbana-Champaign campus.
In the early months, a Strategic Plan Committee was named,
and 10 work groups began looking at issues of importance to
the future of the campus.

In October 1994, draft reports totaling 250 pages, and
containing more than 250 recommendations, were published for
comment. The Council of Deans and the Strategic Plan
Committee reviewed, distilled and synthesized those drafts,
and the result of their work is "A Framework for the
Future," a draft of which is enclosed in this issue of
Inside Illinois.

"Work has already begun on many of the action items," said
Judith Rowan, associate chancellor. "Some others represent
activities we already do, which we are committed to
continuing or expanding; still others are prospective. The
final version of the plan will indicate which items fall
into which category."

Comments on the draft are welcome, Rowan said, and may be
sent before April 17 to her at Swanlund Administration
Building or by e-mail to j-rowan@illinois.edu.

The draft will be discussed at the UI Board of Trustees
meeting next week in Chicago. The final report will be
published as a special edition of Inside Illinois on May 11
and on the World Wide Web.