Category: Education

Under the leadership of new dean and senior vice president Lee Hamm, MD, the Tulane School of Medicine has announced Vision 2020, the result of an intensive six-month strategic planning process.

Vision 2020’s strategic priorities include expanding translational research, enhancing value in lifetime education and identifying other areas of distinction through cross-institutional collaborations between the School, the Primate Center and the Tropical Disease Center. Chaired by Tonette Krousel-Wood, MD, associate dean and associate provost for health sciences, the planning project engaged nearly 1,000 alumni, students, trainees, faculty and staff earlier this year in stakeholder surveys. More than 100 faculty, staff and students served on planning committees that developed specific activities to bring the plan to life. As the University prepares to welcome a new president, this plan provides the School’s defined areas of focus and priorities to further enhance its position in the dynamically changing environment of Academic Medical Centers. . As a result of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the School of Medicine temporarily relocated to Baylor University in Texas, and as part of its reestablishment in New Orleans has been a major partner in the city’s and region’s renewal.

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The Board of Trustees of Regis University in Denver has approved key elements of the Jesuit institution’s strategic plan, including the formation of two new colleges to take advantage of market opportunities in the dynamic higher education market. The establishment of the college of Computer & Information Sciences involves combining academic units from Regis’ three existing colleges and university investment to support growth in areas such as cybersecurity, health informatics and data science, which are strong economic drivers in Regis’ market. Establishment of a College of Business will also be launched with components of existing programs to respond to some of the largest enrollments in schools and divisions across Regis.

President John Fitzgibbons, S.J., led a collaborative and inclusive process that engaged the full university community, existing and new members of his executive team and the university’s board in exploring and addressing bold goals and structural changes that leverage Regis’s core liberal arts college and its pioneering positions in online education and health sciences. The university is creating an implementation blueprint that actualize these decisions over the next several years. Regis’ strategic plan website is one tool for keeping its community informed.

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President James A. Donahue, a theologian who is the first lay president of Saint Mary’s College of California, launched a comprehensive strategic planning process to position the college around a vital future of intellectual vibrancy, financial strength and innovation. Through a leadership driven, yet highly inclusive and collaborative process, this plan will integrate other major initiatives, such as academic blueprint, master planning and its marketing and branding program. These activities when linked together will not only provide a runway for accelerated outcomes, but also for market distinction and growth.

As the first non-Christian Brother to lead Saint Mary’s in 150 years, Donahue described his vision for the liberal arts college in his inaugural address in October 2013 – a college that “illuminates the landscape of higher education.” The San Francisco Bay Area institution is one of only 40 liberal arts colleges in the nation with the distinction of “Colleges That Change Lives.” Donahue is the former president of the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, and previously was vice president of student affairs at Georgetown University.
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