The Strategic Plan
SEAS Goals

Goal 1: Graduates Prepared for Leadership

1.1 Increase impact of the graduate program
1.2 Increase enrollment
1.3 Increase internal funding for graduate students
1.4 Create student community-building opportunities to stimulate innovation, collaboration and personal development
1.5 Consolidate SEAS-wide educational programs
1.6 Ensure efficient, effective delivery of SEAS educational programs
1.7 Provide every undergraduate with a sustained, high-impact educational experience
1.8 Strengthen rigor in technical courses while ensuring broad educational opportunities across U.Va.
1.9 Engage alumni in educational programs

2.1 Increase faculty and graduate student scholarly productivity
2.2 Increase opportunities for internal and external collaboration
2.3 Recruit faculty that will leverage and enhance SEAS research strengths
2.4 Develop a fund to provide seed and matching funding for collaborative research
2.5 Optimize impact and effectiveness of research centers
2.6 Increase undergraduate student participation in research

3.1 Establish a strategic relationship management capability
3.2 Increase SEAS community outreach efforts
3.3 Increase SEAS presence near key strategic partners
3.4 Establish or enhance use of existing research centers to strengthen our relationships
3.5 Establish a SEAS Advocacy Council to increase alumni engagement

4.1 Provide clarity of SEAS vision, mission and core values
4.2 Ensure that SEAS policies and incentives encourage a culture of excellence
4.3 Clarify roles and responsibilities and implement transparent decision-making processes
4.4 Expand leadership development and professional-development programs for SEAS faculty and staff
4.5 Develop and fully utilize an integrated performance management system aligned with compensation and reward system
4.6 Develop effective support staff capabilities for administrative, technical and research activities

5.1 Revise SEAS Organizational structure to align administrative and academic functions
5.2 Implement an Activity-Based-Budgeting (ABB) financial model in SEAS that aligns accountability and authority and that provides incentives for departments to achieve SEAS and departmental goals
5.3 Maximize SEAS productivity