Phase 1

January - February 2012

Discussion within the Administrative Cabinet will identify key benchmarks and metrics for measuring our progress and measuring ourselves against (i) our peers at the college level; (2) comparing units within the college. Identify college goals.
The associate deans for academic programs, research and Cooperative Extension will identify key metrics for measuring progress towards goals set by ourselves, the university and our stakeholders for each of their specific areas and will build strategic plans.

Faculty Consultative Group on CALS effectiveness, efficiency and innovation begins.

NEW CALS21 DOCUMENTS

Please visit the links below to review important new documents developed during Phase III of the CALS21 strategic planning process:

New strategic plans developed by academic and administrative units throughout CALS. This directory also includes links to reports prepared by the CALS Faculty Consultative Group, the Appointed Professionals Council, and the Staff Council.

DRAFT Grand Vision Pillars with Feedback Received to Date from CALS Community

CALS Executive Council Guiding Principles for Budget Reductions and Future Investments

CALS 21: Active Strategic Thinking/Planning (Timeline)

CALS Purpose, Mission, Vision & Values
CALS External Relations Teams
Dean's Research Advisory Committee (DRAC) Spring 2012 Summary and Recommendations

Dean's Research Advisory Committee begins.
Units and subunits review where they believe that they need to be going in the light of their own administrative units and others in CALS and on campus.

Phase 2

March - April 2012

College-wide refinement of objective benchmarks will take place within the units, facilitated by unit heads. Units will identify positive or essential activities or structures that must be maintained or enhanced, as well as activities that should be discontinued or modified.
The Executive Council, unit heads, and a group of mid-career faculty nominated by their unit heads will take part in facilitated visioning sessions.

Phase 3

April - May 2012

Units across the college will draft new strategic plans.
The Appointed Professionals Council and Staff Council will prepare reports for the dean on CALS effectiveness, efficiency and innovation. Final reports will be provided to the dean by May 15.
College community reviews a draft of the Grand Vision Pillars that will guide Executive Council and Administrative Cabinet in preparing a new strategic plan. Feedback will be submitted to the dean.

Phase 4

May - December 2012

A new strategic plan for the college will be prepared by the Executive Council and Administrative Cabinet.
CALS21 plan will be enacted.
Unit strategic plans will be realigned to fit with CALS21.

New Structures

Executive Council

Vice Provost and Dean
Associate Dean for Administrative Services
Associate Dean for Economic Development and Director, Arizona Cooperative Extension
Associate Dean for Research and Director, Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station
Bart Cardon Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Career Development

Administrative Cabinet

MEMBERSHIP: Executive Council plus: head of academic department heads (position rotates annually among department heads); director of CALS Development and Alumni Affairs; director of CALS International Programs; director of CALS Communications and Technologies (CCT); University of Arizona Defense and Homeland Security Institute director/associate director; others as appropriate.

AIM: Improve communication and coordination.

MEETING SCHEDULE: Mondays, 1-2pm with aspiration of two meetings per month.

Dean's Research Advisory Committee

CHAIRS: Kirsten Limesand (Associate Professor, Nutritional Sciences) and Rod Wing (Professor, Plant Sciences). MEMBERSHIP: Associate Dean for Research, ex-officio; others to be appointed by the original four members to represent the diverse range of work done in CALS.

AIM: Identify how CALS will DOUBLE RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP BY 2020 IN REAL TERMS (see The Arizona Higher Education Enterprise: Strategic Realignment 2010 Forward).

MEETING SCHEDULE: To be determined by DRAC but likely frequent in first few months.

WEBSITE: http://cals.arizona.edu/dean/cals21/drac

Faculty Consultative Group

CHAIRS: Joel Cuello (Professor, Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering) and Wanda Howell (Professor, Nutritional Sciences). MEMBERSHIP: CALS Faculty Council (those with administrative appointments excused if they prefer); other members to be determined by the initial members, to be representative of our diversity in all aspects. No administrators except for those already on the CALS Faculty Council and Associate Dean Sandy Pottinger, who will serve as a voting ex-officio member as a resource to those working on non-academic functions.

AIM: To identify how we can change our operations to be even better in state-funded academic and non-academic functions by seeking out, evaluating and providing creative ideas focused on: Effectiveness – enhancements to better meet our three-fold mission of teaching, research and extension; Efficiency – enhancements to better organize, manage and utilize our resources and to cost less than our current systems; and Innovation – truly new ways to do things compared to our past (invention + exploitation).

MEETING SCHEDULE: Regular updates will be provided to the dean with the final report by May 15, 2012.

WEBSITE: http://cals.arizona.edu/dean/cals21/fcg