Over the past couple weeks, I have had the opportunity to see drafts of the Chancellor's UW-Madison Strategic Planning Framework. It will be released sometime in February. It's encouraging to see how themes that surfaced over our summer process fit really well into the Chancellor's priorities. Even the structure of the plan is  similar to what we are drafting.

I just published the draft introduction to the IT Plan. The rest is forming around the following initiatives:

 - Support teaching, learning, outreach and public service with appropriate technologies.

 - Support teaching, learning, outreach and public service with successful approaches.

 - Prepare students to learn and work in a technology-enhanced world.

 - Advance and sustain faculty, staff and student skills and competencies.

 - Implement IT services that complement the adaptive challenges and nature of research.

 - Support the research life cycle (grant proposal and pre-award processes through sharing and archiving research results).

 - Connect resources and people doing research.

 - Advance and sustain graduate student skills and competencies (boot camps).

 - Support and enhance our technology and service infrastructure for teaching, learning, research, outreach and public service.

 - Support access for non-traditional students and the public (shrink distance for access).

I would appreciate your comments as I begin blogging on each of these sections in the next few weeks.

Future topics: one each on the above, as well as the Common Themes and Infrastructure Initiatives.