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Dear University of Maryland Family:

The University of Maryland’s Strategic Plan, completed in the spring of 2000, has served us well as a cogent statement of shared values and a robust guide for institutional development. (See http://www.provost.umd.edu/Strategic_Planning/Plan.html.) Significant changes in the University and in its environment over time, along with insights derived from the recent institutional self-study and the associated review recommendations from the recent Middle States Association reaccreditation process (see http://www.ms07.umd.edu/), have made clear the need to revisit the Plan. I am writing now to describe the process we will use to produce a new Strategic Plan for the University of Maryland.

In coordination with the University Senate’s Executive Committee, I have appointed a Strategic Planning Steering Committee (SPSC) to oversee the development of the Plan. With Provost Nariman Farvardin as Chair and Senate Chair William Montgomery as Vice-Chair, the SPSC includes all six University vice presidents, who ultimately will be tasked with implementation of the Plan, as well as important external stakeholders, deans, faculty, staff, and students from our community. The SPSC roster is appended below. It is essential to note that, beyond the SPSC, there will be continuous and robust participation of the entire community through defined task groups as well as through frequent requests and opportunities for individual input at all stages of the process. Further information concerning the process, the Steering Committee, the timetable, progress reports, and requests for input will be found on a web site now under construction at http://www.sp07.umd.edu/.

We have set an ambitious schedule for this process. My intention is to have a completed and already well-vetted Plan submitted to the University Senate for final discussion and endorsement at its meeting on April 21, 2008. I ask for your collaboration in achieving this goal.

Your sincerely,

C. D. Mote, Jr.
President

STRATEGIC PLANNING STEERING COMMITTEE ROSTER

Nariman Farvardin, Chair
Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost

William Montgomery, Vice-Chair
Chair, University Senate
Professor, School of Music

Andrew Baden
Chair, Department of Physics

Jack Baker
Director, Operations and Maintenance
Facilities Management

Kathryn Bartol
Professor, Robert H. Smith School of Business

Elizabeth Beise
Professor, Department of Physics

Mel Bernstein
Vice President for Research

Ira Chinoy
Associate Professor, Philip Merrill College of Journalism

Linda Clement
Vice President for Student Affairs

Doug Duncan
Vice President for Administrative Affairs

Devin Ellis
Graduate Student

Robert Gold
Dean, School of Public Health

Irwin Goldstein
Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
University System of Maryland

Jeffrey Huskamp
Vice President and Chief Information Officer

Steven Hutcheson
Professor, Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics

Clifford Kendall
Chair, University System of Maryland Board of Regents

Victor Korenman
Professor Emeritus, Department of Physics

Elizabeth Loizeaux
Associate Dean, College of Arts and Humanities

William Mayer
Chair, University of Maryland College Park Foundation Board of Trustees

Kim Montague-Smith
Executive Administrative Assistant
Department of Animal and Avian Sciences

Edward Montgomery
Dean, College of Behavioral and Social Sciences

Melissa Morales
Undergraduate Student

Darryll Pines
Chair, Department of Aerospace Engineering

Marvin Rabovsky
Immediate Past President, University of Maryland Alumni Association
Board of Governors

Brodie Remington
Vice President for University Relations

Jonathan Wilkenfeld
Professor, Department of Government and Politics
Director, Center for International Development and Conflict Management

Ann W