Timeline and Presentations
Below is the timeline for the 2015-2016 strategic planning process.
Items from various meetings are linked in at the
appropriate stage. Also refer to the analytic summaries page for additional information.
1. Organization for strategic plan
- Review of campus strategic plans and other contextual material
- President’s retreat with University and campus representatives
- Design of July BOT strategy session
2. Identification of initial planning issues
- July BOT meeting and strategy session
- Initial data collection and environmental scan
- Design of strategic planning communication program for UI community
- Analysis/distillation of ideas and concerns from retreats

3. Issue analysis
- First meeting of Strategic Planning Steering Committee (SPSC)
- Identification of initial planning issues, themes & implications
- Selected internal interviews
- Second SPSC meeting, refinement of issues, themes & implications
- Design of campus town-hall meetings

4. Hypotheses development
- Town-hall meeting on each campus
- Additional internal and external stakeholder interviews
- Development of “working hypotheses” about potential UI priorities, goals, and vision
- SPSC meeting: development of goals & strategies

5. Drafting strategic plan
6. Stakeholder feedback and finalization of plan
- Widespread discussion of draft framework with internal and external stakeholders
- SPSC meeting: review of stakeholder feedback & identification of final revisions
- Finalization of UI strategic framework
- Submission of final draft to SPSC for approval and transmission to President and Board of Trustees

7. Final draft submitted