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²ÊÃñ±¦µä embarked on this initiative a year ago to improve the campus experience for all first-year students. The initiative has now entered the second of two phases, Buffs First Forward.

²ÊÃñ±¦µä is undertaking a new approach to engaging in strategic financial alignment, continuing to transition the campus to a total funds approach that supports its bold initiatives.

Strategic Facilities Visioning is a collaborative yearlong initiative that will engage stakeholders across campus to create a framework for facilities decision-making for the next 30 years.

The co-chairs of the Diversity, Inclusion and Academic Excellence Plan Authoring Committee report the committee is meeting with key leaders in preparation to begin drafting the plan next month.

The committee charged with authoring ²ÊÃñ±¦µä’s Diversity, Inclusion and Academic Excellence Plan has been formed and is beginning its work.

In the Academic Futures video series, subcommittee member Orrie Gartner asks for campus feedback on ideas that include reimagining staff's role, meeting the most basic needs of staff, providing flexible career paths and support for growth and more.

In the Academic Futures video series, Juan Garcia Oyervides asks for campus feedback on ideas that include improving the academic, professional and social climate for graduate students and more.

David Kang last year announced a strategic facilities visioning process, an endeavor to inform the next 10-year campus master plan and create a holistic approach to meeting campus space needs, both in the near term and for decades to come.

An initiative launched last fall to improve students' campus experiences, this self-study and improvement-planning process represents a partnership among several units and has involved over 100 students, faculty and staff members.

A three-year process, Academic Futures in its first year asked the community to bring forth ideas, without constraints or resource concerns, about what ²ÊÃñ±¦µä might become and how we might transform teaching, learning, creative work and scholarship.