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2020Forward: Help shape Clemson's future

February 17, 2015

Clemson is well into its 2020Forward strategic planning update process, and you now have an opportunity to provide your feedback.

On Feb. 9, Provost Bob Jones sent an email to all students, faculty, and staff calling for feedback on the implementation reports written by the 2020Forward phase one planning committees. As a reminder, 2020Forward is an effort to update and refocus the existing 2020 Roadmap, not to replace it. Information about the 2020 Roadmap can be found on the 2020Forward website.

I hope that you all will take the time to read the reports in the three goal areas and provide your feedback. There is also a report on institution-wide strategies that are relevant to all three areas; you may also submit feedback on this report. Your input will be used to help finalize the first phase of 2020Forward and to develop these reports into implementation plans.

This strategic plan update will place all three areas of the academic enterprise — undergraduate learning, graduate education, and research — at the core of our strategic planning and thus will shape the future of the University, as we look beyond 2015, 2020, or even 2050. A process like this does not — and cannot — happen in a vacuum. For this to be a plan for the University, then the people of the University need to participate in writing it.

Please visit the 2020Forward website to read the reports and submit comments; you may also submit comments to forward2020@clemson.edu or respond to a confidential survey on the website. The feedback period ends on Feb. 20.

Please be a part of the process and make your voice heard.

Go Tigers!!




Clemson University's 15th president, James P. Clements