Plan 2008
FOREWORD TO THE CAMPUS
This plan builds on our previous diversity programs, the 1988 Madison Plan and the Madison Commitment of 1993. Our current campus vision priorities, developed in 1995, call for the reconceptualization of undergraduate education and for maximizing our human resources. Both goals are addressed in our current plans for the recruitment and retention of students of color, successful initiatives to increase student financial aid, a leadership institute to prepare future leaders, and a strategic hiring plan for new faculty.
We present in this document a broad and aggressive plan for what we need to do to make institutional improvements necessary to achieve greater diversity on campus. Plan 2008 contains recommendations in seven broad areas:
- taking leadership and responsibility, including new accountability processes
- preparing pre-college students, including a major new program
- undergraduate student recruitment, financial aid, retention, climate, freshman experience, and curriculum
- graduate and professional student recruitment, financial aid, and retention
- faculty and staff recruitment and retention
- community and alumni cooperation
- opportunities to be involved.
As we set priorities for implementation from among the recommendations in this report, we need to consider carefully which steps will have the greatest impact. Over the next few months I will be discussing with deans, directors, and governance groups their responsibilities for carrying out as many of the options as we can, as soon as we can. The Provost’s Office will continue to lead and manage these initiatives.
By Fall 1999 our highest priorities will be identified, both campus-wide and within schools and colleges. By May 2000 we will have completed integrating diversity goals into our strategic plans across campus and studying in-depth recommendations which require more information and discussion. We will also be producing our first “report card” by the end of the 1999-2000 academic year to evaluate our progress and to help determine our next steps for implementing the plan.
Perhaps the most important task will be for all of us to reorder our individual priorities and come together to make this ten-year plan work. I invite you to join me.
—David Ward, Chancellor, April 15, 1999
Table of contents
- Guide to the plan
- Foreword to the campus
- Introduction
- The seven goals of UW System’s Plan 2008
- Summary of recommendations in Madison Plan 2008
- Commentary and recommendations
- Budget commentary
- Estimated budget for Plan 2008
- Appendix A: Planning guide for Implementation
- Appendix B: PEOPLE proposed budget
- Appendix C: Undergraduate enrollment, retention, and graduation profiles
- Appendix D: CIC freshman seminar survey
- Appendix E: Graduate and professional enrollment and graduation profiles
- Appendix F: Advanced opportunity fellowships
- Appendix G: Strategic hire initiative program
- Appendix H: Faculty and staff profiles
- Appendix I: UW-Madison and community partnerships
- Appendix J: Faculty Senate on diversity
- Appendix K: Governance leaders’ diversity statements, 1997-98
- Appendix L: Plan 2008 governance resolutions, 1999
- Appendix M: Letter of support from Wisconsin Alumni Association
- Appendix N: Process
- Appendix O: Participants