Strategic Planning
Purpose: The purpose of the Strategic Planning UPC is to promote, coordinate and oversee planning across the University. It attempts to link the University's programs and services with its mission, markets, and resources. In meeting the challenges of external as well as the internal environment, it strives to display and foster strategic thinking, timely action, and adequate communication.
Charge: 1) Assists the President in formulating, advancing, and communicating a vision for the future of Loyola University Chicago; 2) coordinates the work of other groups involved in planning and integrates their products into a coherent set of action plans; 3) identifies strategic issues and options through ongoing analysis of the University's internal strengths and weaknesses in relation to its external opportunities and threats; 4) prepares and periodically updates planning assumptions; 5) ascertains the need for outside planning expertise and retains consultants as appropriate; 6) oversees and monitors the implementation of plans to assure that they are carried out; 7) promotes and evaluates the continuous assessment and benchmarking of planning efforts; 8) oversees the work of those committees and task forces charged with responsibility for implementing policies within the purview of this UPC; 9) ensures adequate communication and consultation abut planning issues and process with the University community; and 10) ensures regular communication among and between University Policy Committees as well as with elected representative bodies and councils, including the Board of Trustees, Faculty Council, Staff Council and Unified Student Government.
Membership: Membership should be broadly constituted to adequately represent a broad spectrum of perspectives. The size of the UPC should not exceed fourteen members. Membership shall include: three faculty, two staff, two students, the President or his/her designee, the Provost, the Vice President for Health Sciences, the Vice President for Advancement, the Vice President for Capital Planning, the Vice President of Finance, and the Vice President for Mission and Ministry. The faculty and staff members will serve staggered three-year terms, renewable once; student members will serve staggered one-year terms.
UPC Chairperson: The President or his/her designee.
Administrative Liaison: Office of the President.
UPC Staff Support: Office of the President