In spring 2004, six planning committees were convened under the auspices of the Chancellor’s Advisory Council (CAC), each with 12 to 15 members including faculty, staff and administrators. (For a list of the committees and their members, click here or see www.evc.uci.edu/planning/committees.html). Each committee was then charged with the task of considering a separate aspect of campus planning: academic breadth, research and graduate programs, campus life, physical facilities, UCI’s public role and resources. (For the text of the charge, see www.evc.uci.edu/planning/charge.html.) Each committee reported its conclusions to the CAC at the end of the summer, and those reports were discussed by the deans of all academic units. The results of those deliberations were then collated to create a document that served as a platform for discussion by the whole campus community in 2004-05.

The results of that discussion, including formal responses from the Academic Senate, Staff Assembly, most academic units, and many individuals, indicated a high degree of consensus on the principal objectives that had emerged from the original planning committees. Most of the suggestions for revision focused on refining and augmenting the specific goals and strategies through which those objectives would be pursued. The plan was revised in light of those suggestions, and two additional sections were added in response to requests for an account of the distinctive attributes of the campus now (see “Where We Are Now”) and for an overview of the philosophical and historical issues associated with academic planning generally and within the University of California (see “Our Mission as a Public Research University”). In September 2005, the completed plan was reviewed by the deans, the Chancellor’s Advisory Council, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Michael R. Gottfredson, and Chancellor Michael V. Drake, and it was then presented to the campus in fall quarter of that year.

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