Delivering Big Ideas for Mega Gifts Update

Accomplishments

  • Developed slides for presentations to academic leaders
  • Griffin Lamb and Michael Ward presented to deans workgroup (generally well-received)

Obstacles/Challenges

  • Timing: scheduling associate deans and star faculty focus groups delayed until January

New and Exciting

  • Opportunity for university-wide strategic planning process to clarify the university’s research areas of excellence; timing is right for us to be doing this