Strategic Plan Update | June 2013
SVM
Strategic Priorities:  We Need Your Help

Dean Markel

Over the course of the next eight months, I will highlight each of our eight strategic priorities. The goal of these messages is to engage you in our future and ask for your help in implementing the initiatives that will help us achieve our strategic priorities. So that you don’t have to wait for all eight of these messages, I’ve posted all of our 2013-15 strategic priorities and initiatives on our website along with each strategic priority’s executive sponsor and the leads for each new initiative. Please read through this summary, and if there are any initiatives or priorities that excite you or inspire ideas, please contact either the executive sponsor for the strategic priority or the lead on the initiative. 

Our strategic plan will only be successful if we engage as many of our faculty, staff, and students as possible. In addition to my mid-month messages and the information available on our website, I will also present and seek input on our strategic plan in several places:

  • A Committee on Academic Staff Issues (CASI) forum for all academic and classified staff in the school on July 8 at noon in room 2350
  • An all-SVM faculty meeting to discuss the plan on July 11 in room 2350
  • A meeting with each of the four departments in the summer
  • A meeting with our students after they arrive in the fall 

As always, if you have any feedback with regard to the strategic plan or this process, please do not hesitate to contact me.

We have identified five new initiatives to help us achieve our first strategic priority, which is highlighted below along with the initiatives and the initiative leads. All of our strategic priorities are critical to the future success of the school, but the task of building upon the excellence that we have achieved to date will rest upon the shoulders of future faculty. Only through the identification, recruitment, hiring, mentoring, and successful promotion of new faculty will the school be able to provide the most exceptional education, research, and clinical service in the coming decades. Again, please feel free to contact the initiative leads or me if you would like to contribute. 

Strategic Plan Links

» Strategic Plan (web)
» Strategic Plan (print)
» Strategic Priorities and Initiatives Matrix


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Upcoming Events

All-SVM Gathering
June 21, 2013
4:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Robert P. Hanson Biomedical Sciences Laboratories, School of Veterinary Medicine (former AHABS Building)

SVM Alumni Reunion
June 22, 2013
Veterinary Medicine Building

CASI Forum
The SVM Strategic Plan

July 8, 2013
12:00 p.m.
Room 2350, Veterinary Medicine Building

Faculty Meeting
Dean's Strategic Plan Presentation
July 11, 2013
12:00 p.m.
Room 2350, Veterinary Medicine Building

American Veterinary Medical Association SVM Alumni Reception
July 22, 2013
Chicago, Ill.

Strategic Priority One
Retain, Recruit, and Develop High-caliber and Diverse Faculty

Executive Sponsor: Mark Markel

Initiative A
Create a Faculty Mentorship Task Force to develop mentoring opportunities before promotion and support of mid and late-career faculty.(Task force to be created by July 1, 2013.

  • Improve on-boarding for new faculty (Jan. 1, 2014).
  • Improve mentorship of junior faculty (Jan. 1, 2014).
  • Foster the engagement and productivity of mid and late-career faculty (beyond Jan. 1, 2014).

Lead: Karen Young, Task Force Chair

Initiative B
Improve the search process and incorporate best practices including training our search committees to recruit a more diverse pool of candidates (Sept. 1, 2013).

Lead: Nigel Cook, working with the other Department Chairs

Initiative C
Hire 6-10 new faculty in addition to faculty replacements to increase our total faculty members. Three have been hired and another three will be hired by Jan 1, 2014. The remaining four should be hired by 2017.

Lead: Mark Markel, working with the Department Chairs

Initiative D
In anticipation of approximately one third of our faculty retiring over the next several years, focus on recruiting the most talented individuals to fill those positions.

Lead: Mark Markel, working with the Department Chairs

Initiative E
Encourage retired, emeritus faculty when appropriate to continue to engage in the school's mission.

Lead: Mark Markel, working with the Department Chairs

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