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Email: planning@bucknell.edu What is The Plan for Bucknell? The Plan for Bucknell is designed to strengthen University’s position of pre-eminence within American higher education. Bucknell’s vision is to "provide students with the premier undergraduate experience in American higher education". The Plan builds upon five strategies enumerated by Bucknell President Brian C. Mitchell at his inauguration last April to set the direction of the University for the next seven to ten years. To read the complete Plan please go here How do I get a copy? For a copy of The Plan please go here. The Plan has been approved by the Board of Trustees. What now? With formal approval of The Plan for Bucknell, our focus now shifts to bringing The Plan to reality by implementing its strategies. We will be asking the campus community to actively participate in developing tactics that have an explicit tie to one or more of those five strategies. It will be a fully engaging, collaborative effort to prioritize and execute those tactics that will take Bucknell to the next level in higher education. This effort will be a complex and comprehensive undertaking, one that requires the full commitment and attention of a dedicated resource. An Office of Strategy Implementation has been created to lead the overall strategy implementation process. What is the Office of Strategy Implementation? The President and Provost have charged the Office of Strategy Implementation with the responsibility of assisting the Bucknell community in developing tactical proposals that can fulfill the five strategies outlined in The Plan for Bucknell. This office will also be responsible for managing the overall implementation schedule of plan tactics, including the tracking and reporting of the university’s progress. What is a tactic? The Plan for Bucknell is based on five strategies that are broad priorities or directions for the university over an extended time. Tactics, on the other hand, are specific actions generated by faculty, staff and students that are intended to be readily achievable, usually within a given fiscal year. A fully developed tactic will have an explicit tie to one or more of the five strategies and will include sources of funding, additional staffing needs, space requirements, and technology requirements. Who is involved in developing tactics? All faculty, staff and students will have the opportunity for involvement at many levels. Faculty and staff will typically generate tactics through their departmental or program planning efforts, as well as other collaborative team structures. Students will likewise develop and submit tactics through their involvement in existing programmatic, committee, or governance structures. What process will be used to develop and act on tactical proposals? The entire campus will be engaged in generating ideas and tactics. All ideas and tactics will come through the Office of Strategy Implementation for an initial review and, if needed, follow-up discussion. A Tactics Team consisting of the Provost, the VP Finance and Administration, the Chair of the Faculty, and the Director of Strategy Implementation will convene to review tactical proposals and determine specific next steps in the process. These next steps may include engagement of the existing faculty governance structures, administrative departments, student committees, or the University Council. Completed tactic proposals will go to the President who, in consultation with the President’s Cabinet and the Board of Trustees, will make final approval decisions. What is expected of departments and programs? Departments and programs will be developing plans designed to be consistent with, and supportive of, The Plan for Bucknell. Out of these departmental and programmatic planning efforts will emerge a prioritized set of plan tactics. The Office of Strategy Implementation will act as a central resource to support these respective planning efforts and will call on expertise as needed to support the development of full tactical proposals. Who will be making decisions about prioritization and approval of tactics? Faculty, staff and students submitting tactics should begin with a "first level" prioritization that highlights those areas that are perceived as most important in support of The Plan. The Tactics Team will lead efforts to further prioritize the tactical proposals through active engagement of existing faculty governance structures, the University Council, and other departments or committees as needed. Once these ideas become full tactical proposals (i.e., including funding sources, space, people, and technology needs), the President, in consultation with the President’s Cabinet and the Board of Trustees, will make the final decision on tactical proposals. What is the timing for implementation? Full engagement of the campus community in developing tactics will begin in the fall of 2006. The university will implement tactics on a rolling, continuous basis.
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