Strategic Planning

What's Inside

• Strategic Planning Home
• Strategic Plan Booklet
• UMD Strategic Plan - Final
• Campus Action Plan - Final
• Developing the Plan: 2010-11
• Implementing the Plan: 2011-12
• Planning Timeline
• Resources for Planning

• Office of the Chancellor Home

Planning Process

The UMD Strategic Plan was completed and approved during the 2010-2011 academic year. The following individuals and groups were most directly involved in this process:

• Chancellor Black provided overall leadership to this project.
• The Steering Committee, a 35-member group that is broadly representative of the campus community, provided overall guidance to the planning process.
• An Executive Team of 12 members provided initial consultation on many elements of the planning process.
• Dennis Falk, Faculty Fellow, facilitated the planning process with Chancellor Black.
• Robert Kvavik, Senior Vice President in the University of Minnesota Office of Planning, provided ongoing consultation to the process.

The 2010-11 planning process included six elements.

• Conducting a SWOT analysis of UMD
• Developing core values for the campus
• Updating the UMD mission statement
• Creating a campus vision for 2020
• Identifying 5-7 campus goals to be achieved in 3-5 years
• Identifying action steps required to achieve campus goals

During the 2011-12 academic year, Chancellor Black will lead the campus in implementing significant parts of strategic plan. Under the guidance of Dennis Falk, who is continuing his work as the Faculty Fellow for Strategic Planning, UMD is forming a new Integrated Strategic Advisory Team. This group will consult with Chancellor Black during the 2011-12 academic year to ensure that the Strategic Plan action steps align with the budget process to achieve the campus mission, the six goals, and the vision for 2020. Team members will model and promote the campus core values while working with Campus Assembly members, with colleagues in each Vice Chancellor unit, and with other important constituencies to implement the Strategic Plan. The team will also work with Professor Falk to develop a framework to assess progress on the Strategic Plan.

The UMD planning process is guided by important values and principles.

UMD is undertaking a systematic planning process incorporating the views of multiple constituencies to clarify its mission and to identify a campus vision, core values, and goals.