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To: Faculty, staff and students in Vancouver and the Okanagan
UBC is in the final stages of a comprehensive strategic planning process. As we enter this final phase, I am hoping you will join the conversation and provide your input.
UBC’s new plan will serve as a road map, helping us focus even more intently on our core activities of learning and research. It also provides an opportunity for you to help shape the priorities that will influence our university for years to come.
We have already received thousands of thoughtful comments from faculty, staff, students, alumni, external partners and our broader community. This input has helped us identify draft priority areas for the plan.
We have also engaged with Deans, the Executive and other university leaders to explore these priority areas and articulate them within an overarching framework. The framework reflects UBC’s core mandate of excellence in learning and research, with the draft priorities represented as areas for transformational focus, or as underpinning strengths and commitments that define our university.
More recently, we have established representative working groups to substantiate the framework through objectives and strategies attached to each major area. Their recommendations will be provided to the Steering Committee, Deans and the Executive.
Share your input in person
As we continue through the final stages of this process, I would like to invite you to help us validate the emerging plan and explore ideas of how we can bring it to life. A series of open house events will take place during November. Details are as follows:
UBC Vancouver
Friday November 24, 2017
12 pm to 4 pm
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Golden Jubilee Room (4th floor)
Wednesday November 29, 2017
4 pm to 7 pm
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Golden Jubilee Room (4th floor)
UBC Okanagan
Thursday November 30, 2017
11 am to 2 pm
Charles E. Fipke Centre for Innovative Research (foyer)
Share your input online
You are also invited to share your input via an online survey, which will run from November 23 until December 8. You will receive a broadcast email on November 23 with a link to that survey, so please look out for it.
To learn more about the strategic plan and the process so far, visit www.ubc.ca/strategicplan.
Collectively, we can build a plan that reflects our distinctive strengths and values. Whether you are a student, faculty member or staff, we value your input and encourage you to continue with us on this journey.
Professor Santa J. Ono
President and Vice-Chancellor