SEAS
Strategic Goals

Prepare Graduates for Leadership

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

Increase Research Impact

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

Expand SEAS Reach

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

Create an Environment Where Faculty and staff Can Succeed

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

Create a Model for Operational Excellence

• Revise SEAS Organizational structure to align administrative and academic functions
• 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
• Maximize SEAS productivity

Resources for the Future

• Proactively engage in the implementation of an ABB-based financial system
• Secure Differential Tuition/Enrollment Growth/Institutional Investment
• Grow Research
• Enhance Development
• Explore new revenue-generating academic programs