President Michael Schill and Provost Scott Coltrane are asking for the campus community’s feedback on a draft of the University of Oregon’s strategic framework.

Comments on the document, which is the product of more than a year of work by campus contributors, are due Feb. 3. The draft is posted on the Office of the Provost’s website with the following letter to the community:

Dear Colleagues,

President Schill and I are pleased to share with you the attached draft strategic framework, simply and appropriately titled, “EXCELLENCE.” This draft is the culmination of more than a year of work by more than fifty individuals who served on four strategic work groups. Those work groups—focused on key institutional priorities—helped shape a transformative vision for the university, and specific initiatives and strategies to reach that vision.

President Schill and I took the work of those teams and consolidated it into this draft, and we now ask for your comments and feedback.

This framework is a guiding document, meant to be aspirational. It will provide us all with a set of objectives and principles by which to judge our work as we collectively move forward. We will contemplate priorities, decisions and actions based on whether they are consistent with this framework. 

The document is meant to complement the UO’s mission statement and the 2009 Academic Plan, not replace either. Further, the framework is not written to be a “plan”—it does not contain metrics or specific tactics—and to be honest, we may not have the resources to fully execute each strategy. That will not, however, preclude us from striving to reach the important goals contained in the overall framework to enhance excellence at the University of Oregon.

I ask you to keep these objectives of the document in mind as you review it and offer comments on its strengths and weaknesses. Please email any suggestions to StrategicFramework@uoregon.edu through February 3; all comments will be taken into consideration.

Thank you for your participation in this process, and thank you for your ongoing commitment to excellence at the University of Oregon.

Sincerely,

Scott Coltrane
Provost and Sr. Vice President