Guiding Principles
Mission Statement
Stewarding Excellence @ Illinois will coordinate the repositioning of our university for continued pre-eminence as a public, land-grant research institution in the 21st Century as we face decreased public resources.
We will have to invest in our core educational, research, and public engagement missions in order to attract and retain the best faculty, students and staff. We will approach this mission through three interlinked processes:
- Institutional transformation
- Cost reduction
- Revenue generation
Principles
- We are guided by our land-grant mission of excellence in teaching, research, and public engagement
- We are committed to protecting students and their access to high quality education
- We will ensure that resource decisions strengthen the institution for the future
- We will ensure an open and consultative process that will engage the faculty, staff, and students
- As a public university that values public trust, we will conduct ourselves in an honest and visible manner
- We will treat members of our diverse campus community with respect and dignity throughout this process
- We will avoid across-the-board cuts and instead work toward strategic decisions about how best to steward our resources
- We will act in accordance with our commitment as a land-grant institution to addressing critical needs of the State of Illinois, the nation, and the larger society through the transfer and application of knowledge
- We will continue to attend to those activities mandated by state statutes
Criteria for Determining Projects among Operations/Units/Functions
- Those where high cost savings (short-term or long-term) are possible
- Those that rely on Provost/Chancellor Office funding
- Those that are primarily administrative in function
- Those for which costs are increasing
- Those that include redundancy or duplication
- Those for which efficiencies could be enhanced
- Those that may no longer align with campus strategic goals
- Those that hinder innovation in scholarship or teaching
- Those that have the potential to increase revenue generation (short-term or long-term)
- Those that could reinforce and extend excellence
- Those that have the potential to enhance cross-campus intellectual synergies