Cross-Campus Initiatives to Advance
Our Strategic Priorities
For each strategic priority we identified "campuswide initiatives," where we could have more impact by working across the campus instead of unit by unit. Read more about the initiatives below, or view a matrix of the initiatives.
Undergraduate Experience
Wisconsin Idea
Scholarly Domains/Research
Recruit and Retain
Diversity
Resources/Stewardship
Undergraduate Experience
Essential Learning Outcomes (ELO)
Align campus program and course development and accountability commitments (Liberal Education and America's Promise, Voluntary System of Accountability) with ELO/Wisconsin Experience goals.
Sponsor: Provost
Point: A Brower
Common Book Project
Go Big Read!
Sponsor: Chancellor
Point: K Frazier
Educational reforms and development (Madison Initiative for Undergraduates)
Expand best practices and innovations in teaching and learning, curricular design, and student services to enhance outcomes; Wisconsin Experience and MIU.
Sponsor: Provost
Point: A Brower
Need-based funding (Madison Initiative for Undergraduates)
Raise funds and allocate to expand access to low-income students.
Sponsor: Chancellor,
Provost
Point: J Berg
Faculty and instructional support (Madison Initiative for Undergraduates)
Hire and support faculty to offer courses, majors, and experiences students need.
Sponsor: Provost
Point: A Brower
Technology-enhanced learning
Assess TEL program.
Expand opportunities for internal and external.
Sponsor: Provost
Point: R Kraemer,
A Brower
Recruit, retain, graduate
Advance our systems for recruiting, retaining, and graduating students.
Sponsor: Provost
Wisconsin Idea
Communication/
Relationships
Build our external relationships and brand. Develop structure and programs for new University Relations office. Tell our stories. Align people and messages across campus.
Sponsor: Chancellor
Point:
V Sweeney
Complex problems
Tackle complex social problems, using research and problem-solving. Mobilize interdisciplinary efforts by building an infrastructure to enable. Engage all disciplines. Start: Global Health (See also Sustainability in Resources, below)
Sponsor: Provost
Point: J Roberts,
J Suri
Scholarly Domains/Research
Research infrastructure
Rethink our structure to strengthen research leadership, policy, and processing.
Sponsor: Provost
Graduate funding/education
Improve graduate funding and advance graduate education opportunities and services. Sponsor: Provost
Point: M Cadwallader,
D Bazzell
Restructure and integrate life sciences
Explore the integration of the life sciences within a spectrum of disciplines including humanities, arts, social sciences, and education. Build on current efforts, such as Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, Morgridge Institute for Research, science outreach. Identify new efforts.
Sponsor: Provost
Recruit and Retain
Pay-merit paradigm
Shift from a pay-plan-driven to a pay-plan-assisted paradigm. Create portfolio of tools to identify, recognize, and reward merit.
Sponsor: Provost
Point: S Stern
Tenure conversation
Hold a tenure conversation across campus.
Sponsor: Provost
Point: S Stern
Leadership/professional development
Expand efforts to provide chairs, directors, supervisors, and other leaders with opportunities to develop and expand their capacity. “Fully Prepared to Lead”
Sponsor: Provost
Point: S Stern,
D Schutt
Diversity
Coordinate and align diversity
Improve coordination and communication across campus. Improve and align our programs and structures.
Sponsor: Provost
Point: D Williams
Close achievement gap
Engage campus in a systemic approach to closing the achievement gap.
Sponsor:
Provost
Point: D. Williams
Faculty diversity
Build tools to help recruit and retain.
Sponsor:
Provost
Point: S Stern,
D Williams
Resources/Stewardship
Administrative Process Redesign (APR)
Streamline processes and infrastructure via APR: administrative (IT, HR, RSP), right balance of central/decentral, access to needed information.
Sponsor:
VCA
Point: A Gustafson
Infrastructure for technology
Rethink our campus IT infrastructure, central/decentral.
Sponsor:
Provost
Point: R Kraemer
Sustainability
Develop a campuswide sustainability effort that includes research, teaching, and operations.
Sponsor:
Provost, VCA
Point: G Mitman
Digital measures
Collect merit information through digital measures to help shift from pay-plan-driven to pay-plan-assisted culture.
Sponsor:
Provost
Point: R Kraemer