{"106281":{"#nid":"106281","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Strategic Initiative Teams Provide Updates","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMembers of the Georgia Tech community recently received a preview for many of the ideas intended to push the Institute closer to realizing its vision as the technological research university of the 21st century. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECo-chairs for 11 of the 16 projects in active development were present for the Jan. 23 event, each providing a broad overview of the challenge as well as some preliminary recommendations for advancement on a range of subjects that include undergraduate education, technology transfer and campus culture. Active projects were selected from more than 130 white papers that were submitted in response to Tech\u2019s 25-year strategic plan.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWhen you consider the number of projects and the number of people involved in each one, you begin to notice the significant percentage of our faculty and staff who are engaged and invested in bringing our strategic plan to life,\u201d Provost Rafael L. Bras observed. \u201cIt is very encouraging to see the vast representation from our community planning for Georgia Tech\u2019s future.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFormed and charged last August, the Strategic Plan Implementation Steering Committee is comprised of faculty, staff and students, each of whom is assigned as a liaison to one of the projects under development. Each was on hand, together with members of the senior leadership team, to listen to the presentations and prompt some early discussion.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cThe opportunity for the steering committee to hear the progress of individual teams in a concentrated, one-day session was most valuable since it allowed potential for inter-team collaboration or perhaps even consolidation opportunities to be explored,\u201d said School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Professor David Frost, a member of the Strategic Plan Implementation Steering Committee. \u201cMany of the teams focused on developing just the vision and framework for their project at this stage and appropriately did not get buried in details of resources needed.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESeveral presentations related to what Bras referred to as \u201cthe concept of how [Georgia Tech] educates the student.\u201d Of these, Frost noted substantial student involvement during the preliminary phase.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cInitial teams were made up of predominantly faculty\/staff members, but teams either added student members to the team or utilized approaches to garner significant student input into team activities,\u201d he said. \u201cThis was a refreshing development since it clearly showed a desire to be connected to a major stakeholder group.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe steering committee will continue to provide feedback and support to project teams during the next few months as co-chairs refine their proposals for an April 25 event, during which they will submit final action plans. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo review active projects and presentations, click \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/vision\u0022\u003Ehere\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMembers of the Georgia Tech community recently received a preview for many of the ideas intended to push the Institute closer to realizing its vision as the technological research university of the 21st century.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Members of the Georgia Tech community recently received a preview for many of the ideas intended to push the Institute closer to realizing its vision as the technological research university of the 21st century."}],"uid":"27445","created_gmt":"2012-02-06 09:11:42","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:11:37","author":"Amelia Pavlik","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2012-02-06T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-02-06T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"69473":{"id":"69473","type":"image","title":"Strategic Plan","body":null,"created":"1449177252","gmt_created":"2015-12-03 21:14:12","changed":"1475894609","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:43:29","alt":"Strategic Plan","file":{"fid":"193409","name":"georgia_tech_strategic_plan.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/georgia_tech_strategic_plan_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/georgia_tech_strategic_plan_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":1330937,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/georgia_tech_strategic_plan_0.jpg?itok=yNYoRRgk"}}},"media_ids":["69473"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/vision","title":"Georgia Tech Strategic Vision"}],"groups":[{"id":"1259","name":"Whistle"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"22731","name":"Provost Rafael L. Bras"},{"id":"171180","name":"strategic initiatives"},{"id":"167488","name":"strategic plan"},{"id":"167399","name":"strategic vision"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jennifer.herazy@carnegie.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJennifer Herazy\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EOffice of the Provost\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}