Chapter 4 - Academic Goals and Strategies to Build Distinction
We went through our planning process determined to increase our effectiveness in a changing, challenging environment while building on our enduring themes and distinctive identity. But for this to be strategic planning, we have to know what's strategic for Duke and our schools and to direct our efforts and resources accordingly. First, it is strategic to attend to the renewal of core academic strengths and core facilities as our foundations. Second, it is strategic to ensure that we complete what was begun during the last planning phase, ensuring that new facilities achieve their programmatic goals, newly created programs achieve their potential, and projects on the drawing board are completed. Finally, it is strategic to move into carefully chosen new fields of inquiry and teaching with high academic promise and social relevance. Investing our energies and resources along these lines will enable us to reach a new level of sustained excellence that further and distinctively defines Duke within top-tier of academic institutions.
Our goals are both strategic and coupled to realistic and flexible financial planning , which gives assurance that planning strategies can be implemented. The six strategic goals of the academic plan are:
Goal 1: Increase the Capacity of our Faculty to Develop and Communicate Disciplinary and Interdisciplinary Knowledge
We will create a Faculty Enhancement Initiative to hire, retain, and reward the faculty at all levels, and do so in a targeted manner that builds strength in our departments, schools, centers, and institutes.
Goal 2: Strengthen the Engagement of the University in Real World Issues
We recommit to our flagship interdisciplinary programs and will advance new academic initiatives that build upon distinctive university strengths and enduring themes, particularly knowledge at the service of society.
Goal 3: Attract the Best Graduate and Professional Students and Fully Engage Them in the Creation and Transmission of Knowledge
We will strengthen our graduate programs and more fully integrate and support graduate students within the academic community.
Goal 4: Foster in Undergraduate Students a Passion for Learning and a Commitment to Making a Difference in the World
We will continue to develop an undergraduate experience that deeply engages our students and faculty; enables students to respond to the rapid changes in knowledge production, transmission, and application; and prepares them to be citizens of the global community.
Goal 5: Transform the Arts at Duke
We will raise the level of the arts on campus, enhancing programming, expanding curricular opportunities, supporting cross-disciplinary research, improving facilities, and providing ongoing leadership.
Goal 6: Lead and Innovate in the Creation, Management, and Delivery of Scholarly Resources in Support of Teaching and Research We will ensure that the University Libraries and Information Technology provide transparent and seamless access in support of our academic goals.
The central administration has targeted a strategic investment pool of $208.8M in support of strategies to achieve our desired programmatic goals. In addition, $40M has been targeted to assist the development of the School of Medicine and its collaborations across the campus. Additional capital investments also support strategic plan goals.
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