Provost Brian Foster is leading a series of discussions that will reexamine the focus of the university’s areas of distinction. Over the next two months the campus community will meet for a series of discussion about possible areas of intense focus for the university.
“The next two months are when to get a piece of the action,” says Foster. “This is creative, exciting and challenging. It’s what the highest level of academic work is all about.”
More than 200 faculty members who have been involved in the process since early 2004 will be involved in the first round of discussions. In late March a series of forums will be scheduled for broad campus participation. At the end of the process, some proposals will enter a business or operational planning exercise to determine ways in which they can be implemented, and to examine whether the proposal has the possibility of achieving real distinction for UNM.
More information is available at: www.unm.edu/~clusters
Contact: Karen Wentworth, (505) 277-5627