UMass Lowell 2020

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Mission

UMass Lowell 2020 will serve as the University’s next-generation strategic plan, providing a blueprint for how the campus will achieve national and international recognition as a world-class institution over the next decade.  The creation of this blueprint will be a year-long process that will engage faculty, staff and students from across the institution and will be completed in January 2010. A collegial, open and transparent process will guide the proceedings. Ten committees will assess the University’s current academic, research, partnership, fiscal, and physical plant status and recommend strategies to improve the campus’s achievement, reputation and rankings across these areas. We greatly appreciate and value the participation of the more than 200 campus community members who are helping to draft the plan.

Process

The committees will meet all spring and present their draft recommendations to the full Commission late in the spring. The Steering Committee will analyze and synthesize the recommendations and post them to the campus’s Intranet for comment. 

In the fall, the entire campus will be invited to Open House meetings to hear the recommendations and provide comment. Meanwhile, the committees will meet during the fall to establish benchmarks.

The final product from each committee will be a document of about three to five pages, with a brief narrative and a list of recommendations tied to resources and benchmarks.

The final draft of UMass Lowell 2020 will be refined by the Steering Committee and presented to the campus in January 2010.