Dimension 1: Student Success
Co-Chairs: Chris Licata and Manny Contomonolis
SC Member(s): Dawn Soufleris, Hamad Ghazle, Meg Wells
Trustee: Ted Mercer (remote)
Alumnus: Dave Branca
Dimension Statement: RIT will demonstrate an unshakable focus on student success. We will provide and
assess the conditions that maximize deep academic and campus engagement and their impact on student
learning, which are at once the key measures of student success and the means for achieving it.
Initiating Questions:

Who is the student of the next ten years?

What does the successful student of today look like? Five years from now? Ten years from now? 1

What does the successful graduate look like?

Intellectual engagement: are we confident that we are graduating students with sufficiently deep
skills in cross-modal critical thinking, analysis, problem identification and solving, communicative
competencies, design thinking? How would we know?

How are upcoming demographic shifts in student population likely to impact our “unshakable focus
on student learning.”

Consider the student support mechanisms necessary for the next decade’s major demographic shift
in the student population. Do we need to supply these? When?

In terms of % graduates employed or accepted to grad. school (goal #4a in current strategic plan),
are we sufficiently confident in our numbers to place them somewhere on the website? Could we
be that confident?

Should the plan address more than the traditional degree-seeking student? For example, students
seeking certificates, alumni returning for single or bundled courses.

What would the consequences be if we were to achieve and maintain an 80% graduation rate?
Possible areas of focus:

Develop signature, institution-specific definition of “student success” and “graduate success.”

What are the proper metrics of these definitions?
Explore multiple approaches to reducing time-to-degree (e.g., through competency-based learning
certification, advanced learning technologies, more flexible transfer practices, co-op flexibility).2
Create alumni survey method that provides good career and salary information using metrics
similar to those used by Payscale.
Increase opportunities for student research, cross-disciplinary capstone projects, and collaboration
across academic programs. 3
Prepare faculty for students with special needs.
Prepare faculty for changing students expectations, technological fluency, learning styles.
Be intentional about the ways that co-curricular activities can support academic engagement: e.g.,
living-learning environment, student organizations, career planning.
Develop a culture that views holistic wellness as supportive of student success.
Develop an assessment program for the new academic advising model.
Conduct continuing conversations with alumni and employers regarding the value of their RIT
education.
Consider ways that students’ reliance on loans could be decreased.
Consider the student support mechanisms necessary for the next decade’s major demographic shift
in the student population. Do we need to supply these? When?
1 From Selingo’s College (Un)Bound: “By the time students reach their early twenties, they have spent some 10,000
hours playing video games, on average, sent and received 2000,000 email messages and instant messages, but have
allotted just 5,000 hours to reading books.” (173)
2 Trans-dimensional with Innovative Curricula & Creativity and Organizational Agility
3 Trans-dimensional with Innovative Curricula & Creativity and Organizational Agility
Student Success (2)
Suggested Readings for Student Success
- Environmental Scan for SP 2025 (https://www.rit.edu/president/plan2025/environmentalscan)
- Derek Bok, Higher Education in America, Chapter 9
- Academically Adrift, Chapter 5. Arum and Roksa
- RIT Academic Program Blueprint
(http://www.rit.edu/academicaffairs/academicprogrammgmnt/sites/rit.edu.academicaffairs.
academicprogrammgmnt/files//docs/Academic%20Blueprint.pdf)
- “The President’s New Higher Education Agenda,” Destler. Huffington Post.
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-destler/the-presidents-new-higher_b_3860804.htm
- College (Un)Bound. Chapters 7-9. Selingo
- RIT’s Inclusive Excellence Framework (http://www.rit.edu/diversity/inclusive-excellenceframework-overview)
Institutional Data
- 2013 NSSE results: Summary
- Data on probation & suspension
- Persistence and Graduation data
- Attrition Interviews summary
Student Success (3)
NAME
Licata, Chris *
Contomonolis, Manny *
Ghazle, Hamad **
Mercer, Ted
Ackerman, Susan
Bagley, David
Bennett, Sean
Blackburn, Kate
Bryant, Linda
Burris, Marty
Eckhardt, Rob
Engle, Heather
Flores, Hector
Goldman, Marc
Henderson, Tona
Kingsbury, Debbie
Loffredo, Joe
Mazadoorian, Lynne
Miller, Heidi
Pow, Joe
Provenzano, Sue
Ramkumar, S.
Rosica, Mark
Rowoth, Lynn
Rubin, Donna
Salzano, James
Shaw, Collette
Soufleris, Dawn
Twymann, Lee
Underhill, Linda
Walker, Fred
Waterstram-Rich, K.
Weas, John
Wells, Meg
DIVISION/ COLLEGE
AA
EMCS
CHST
SP Trustee
SA/Disability Services
SA/Res. Life
CAST
SA/Intl. Students
NTID
AA/University Studies
SA/Student Conduct
DAR
Graduate Studies
SA/Residence Life
GCCIS/Gaming
AA/CIAS
AA/Registrar
Academic Affairs/Advising
CHST
COS/CIS
AA/Provosts Office
CAST
NTID
CGR
SA
Presidents
SA/FYE
SA
President's Office
CHST
CAST
CHST
SA/Counseling Ctr.
Student Govt.
* Chair
** Steering Committee Member
POSITION
Sr. Ass. Provost
Asst. VP
Faculty
Trustee
Director
Staff
Asst. Dean
Staff
Faculty
Program Chair
Asst. Dir.
Staff
Dean
Staff
Faculty
Asst. Dean
Staff
Staff/Dir.
Prog. Chair
Faculty
Asst. VP
Faculty
Advising Staff
Staff
Asst. VP
Roundtable
Staff
Asst. VP
Ombudsperson
Faculty
Dean
Faculty
Asst. VP
Senator
REC. BY
JH
SC
Self
Self
Mike D’
MD (?)
Walker
MD
MD
Cauda
Self
MD
MD
MD
Lincoln
Ornt
Baum
Walker
Hurwitz
Cauda
Self
MD
Self
MD
Ornt
Self
Ornt
MD
SC
Dimension 2: Global Engagement and International Education
Co-Chairs: Zack Butler and Jim Myers
SC Member(s): dt ogilvie, Hiroko Yamashita
Trustee: David Burns (remote)
Alumnus: William Snyder
Dimension Statement: We will ensure that all students at all RIT campuses achieve the global and
intercultural competencies and proficiencies required for their career success in a global
knowledge economy. By increasing international research partnerships in our focus research areas
and developing selected centers of excellence at our international locations, we will advance our
global impact and presence.
Initiating Questions:
 In terms of our mission and vision, what is the rationale for RIT’s having global
campuses?
 Should we be increasing their number? According to what criteria?
 How will international research collaboration advance the goal of student learning?
 What are the current costs/benefits of our global strategy?
 How will we know that students have achieved global and cultural competencies?
Possible Areas of Focus:
 Innovative curricula at global campuses1
 Use of technology to allow student and faculty collaboration among global locations2
 Increased study abroad for all (including international students at global campuses) 2, 3
 Global components in general education curriculum 1, 2, 3
 Global components in academic program curricula 1, 2, 3
 Increased faculty exchanges among global campuses
 Purposeful selection of new international campuses and centers of excellence
 Increased opportunities for international co-op placement 3
 Exploit the presence of international students at Rochester campus to develop an
intercultural, international community 1, 2, 3
 Best ways to attract globally diverse students
 Be intentional about creating internationally diverse student teams on the Rochester
campus
 Consider broader application of NTID’s global strategy: “Replicating our model
throughout the world.”
1 Trans-dimensional with Curricular Innovation & Creativity
2 Trans-dimensional with Student Success
3 Trans-dimensional with Diversity
Global Engagement & International Education (2)
Suggested Reading for Global Engagement and International Education
 Environmental Scan for SP 2025 (https://www.rit.edu/president/plan2025/environmentalscan)
 RIT’s Inclusive Excellence Framework (http://www.rit.edu/diversity/inclusive-excellenceframework-overview)
 Myers-Butler Report on Global Education
- Tracking a Global Academic Revolution, Altbach, Reisberg, and Rumbley
- Financial Strategies for Expanding Study Abroad, Heisel, Kissler
(http://www.nafsa.org/uploadedFiles/NAFSA_Home/Resource_Library_Assets/Networks/CCB/
StudyAbroadFinancing.pdf0i
- Global Trends 2025. National Intelligence Council.
(http://www.aicpa.org/research/cpahorizons2025/globalforces/downloadabledocuments/glo
baltrends.pdf)
- “RIT Essential Program Outcomes.” (http://wallacecenter.rit.edu/tls/rit-essential-programoutcomes)
- The Great Brain Race. Wildavsky.
- Gurh, Daniel (November 2012). “US International Student Growth Rates Unsustainable.”
University World News, Issue No: 249.
http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20121123064223433
Institutional Data
- Study Abroad data
- International students @ Henrietta campus
- Current program portfolio for international campuses
- Current inter-campus collaborations
Global Engagement and International Education (3)
Name
Division/ College
Position
Rec. By
Faculty
Myers
Ass. Provost
Haefner
Butler, Zack *
GCCIS
Myers, Jim *
AA
Yamashita, Hiroko **
COLA
Faculty
KM
Burns, David
SP Trustee
Trustee
Self
Westbrook, Gregory
President’s Office
Roundtable
Self
Aldersley, Steven
NTID
Ass. Dean
Self
Corrado, Christine
Development
Staff
Cauda
Finnerty, Bob
GCR
CCO
Hochgraf, Clark
CAST
Faculty
Walker
Kavin, Denise
NTID
Faculty
Hurwitz
Kiefer, Kelsey
Student Govt.
Student
Wells
Kim, Ray (?)
COLA/Intl. Rels.
Faculty
KM
Kray, Christine
COLA
Faculty
Yamashita
6gilvie, dt
SCOB
Dean
Self
Purushotham, Venkat
President’s Office
Roundtable
Self
Stewart, Ty
AA/Study Abroad
Staff
KM
Wahl, Anne
Staff/Adm.
KM
BD
?
Westbrook, Gregory
EMCS/Co-op
Co-op Staff
President’s Office
Roundtable
* Chair
** Steering Committee
Member
Self
Dimension 3: Research and Graduate Education
Co-Chairs: Callie Babbitt and Vicki Hanson
SC Member(s): Meredith Smith and David Bond
Trustee: tbd
Alumnus: Nicholas Schneider
Dimension Statement: RIT will conduct an interdisciplinary, applied research program based
within our signature strengths and designed to advance student and graduate success. We will
conduct research and scholarship across disciplines, between academic and non-academic
institutions, and across national borders. All tenured and tenure-track faculty will conduct
research and/or scholarship that can be demonstrated to enhance student and graduate success.
Our professional Master’s degree programs will share the goal of preparing students for success in
a chosen career field.
Initiating Questions
 What is the value-added of our Ph.D. programs?
 How does an applied research program accord with our mission and advance our
vision?
 What are the costs (dollars, space, personnel, distraction from mission) of an
externally funded research program?
 Should we include as criteria for research program focus 1) serving the needs of
industries that are future employers of RIT graduates; 2) advancing human
knowledge?
 Are their benefits to limiting the focus of funded research?
 What advantages are there to corporate-funded research?
 What are our most successful research areas currently?
 Consider three-five major areas of focus for research.
 Academic program review for masters programs?
 Employment study for master’s graduates
Possible Areas of Focus:
- Identify interdisciplinary focus areas in which we are already strong and consider
organizing research agenda around them. What should their trajectory of growth be?
- Find ways to encourage collaborative research between/among faculty at different
international campuses.
- Increase corporate research partnerships.
- Consider innovative ways to publish and disseminate RIT scholarship and research.
- Significantly increase opportunities for undergraduates to be on faculty and graduate
student research teams. 1
- Focus on Master’s program portfolio: program review; alumni placement; standards
of excellence? 2
- Deploy online education tools in service of collaborative research.
1 Trans-dimensional with Student Success and Curricular Innovation and Creativity
2 Trans-dimensional with Student Success
Research and Graduate Education (2)
Suggested Readings for Research and Graduate Education
- Environmental Scan for SP 2025 (https://www.rit.edu/president/plan2025/environmentalscan)
- RIT’s Inclusive Excellence Framework (http://www.rit.edu/diversity/inclusive-excellenceframework-overview)
- RIT Academic Program Blueprint
(http://www.rit.edu/academicaffairs/academicprogrammgmnt/sites/rit.edu.academicaffairs.
academicprogrammgmnt/files//docs/Academic%20Blueprint.pdf)ILI Report
- From Abelard to Apple: The Fate of American Colleges and Universities, DeMillo.
- The Innovative University, Christensen, Chapter 22.
Institutional Data
 Analysis of costs/revenues of grant-funded research
 Strategic Plan for Graduate Education (RIT)
Research and Graduate Education (3)
Name
Division/ College
Position
Rec. By
Babbitt, Callie*
GIS
Faculty
SC
Hanson, Vicki*
GCCIS
Faculty
Haefner
Trueheart, Harry
SP Trustee
Trustee
Bond, David **
SC Member/SRS
Director
Self
Smith, Meredith **
SC Member/CGR
Ass. VP
Self
Austin, Bruce
COLA/RIT Press
Faculty
KM
Campanelli, Manuella
COS
Faculty
Myers
Flores, Hector
Graduate Studies
Dean
Self
Hauser, Peter
NTID
Faculty
Hurwitz
Kastner, Joel
COS/CIS
Faculty
Baum
Long, Gary
NTID
Faculty
Hurwitz
Messinger, David
COS/CIS
Faculty
Baum
Miller, Tandra
Development
Staff
Cauda
Palmer, Harvey
KGCOE
Dean
Self
Pengcheng Shi
GCCIS
Faculty
Flores
Peterson, Rico
NTID
Asst. Dean
Hurwitz
Rantanen, Esa
COLA
Faculty
Winebrake
Richardson, Mike
COS/CIS
Staff
Baum
Robinson, Andrew
COS
Faculty
HF
Sears, Andrew
GCCIS
Dean
Self
Underhill, Linda
CAST
Faculty
Walker
* Chair
** Steering Committee
Member
Dimension 4: Curricular Innovation and Creativity1
Co-Chairs: Neil Hair and Deb Blizzard
SC Member(s): Hamad Ghazle
Trustee: tbd
Alumnus: William Snyder
Dimension Statement. Through its curricula, its best-practice deployment of educational
technologies, and its portfolio of collaborative, interdisciplinary courses, RIT will walk the
innovation walk. Students will graduate from RIT with an understanding of the principles and
practices of innovation, with experience working on multi-disciplinary teams, and with significant
achievement in the skills required for career advancement, effective engagement in our society,
and a life of fulfillment. The RIT learning experience will reflect the dramatic changes
Initiating Considerations:
 Consider credit-bearing experiences around innovation that do not focus on the
classroom.
 Consider incorporating instruction in design in all students’ curricula (à la Daniel Pink).
 How could we make use of the Student Innovation Center, the Magic Center, and the
Simone Center to offer innovation experience to our students.
 Could we create majors more flexibly?
 Innovation across the curriculum?
 Educational technologies and innovation?
 Shouldn’t RIT faculty and staff be using the technology that our students are using?
Possible areas of focus:
 Encourage and reward interdisciplinary partnerships, courses, majors, designs
 Facilitate team teaching
 Greater curricular flexibility
 Greater course transferability
 Explore further use of BA degree
 Explore alternative methods of certification
 Develop inter-collegiate capstone courses for all students
 Alternative versions of certification?
1 The goals and strategies developed by this Task Force are likely to be trans-dimensional with all five groups.
Curricular Innovation and Creativity (2)
Suggested Reading for Curricular Innovation and Creativity
-
-

Environmental Scan for SP 2025 (https://www.rit.edu/president/plan2025/environmental-scan)
Creativity Committee Report (2008)
“Taking the Measure of the Creative Campus,” Tepper. (Peer Review. Spring 2006.)
“Interview with Richard De Millo.” http://www.thelawlorgroup.com/pov/review/v-xx-i1/interview-richard-demillo?page=2
“Future Libraries: Once A Refuge, Now They Mean Business,” Thomas Frey
http://www.davinciinstitute.com/papers/future-libraries-once-a-refuge-now-they-meanbusiness/
“The Future of Colleges and Universities,” Thomas Frey.
(http://www.davinciinstitute.com/papers/the-future-of-colleges-universities-blueprint-for-arevolution/)
“Disrupting College,” Christensen, Horn, Caldera, Soares.
(http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/02/pdf/disrupting_college.pdf
ILI Report
“Ready to Innovate.” Lichtenberg, Woock, and Wright.
Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States. Babson Survey
Research Group. (http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/changingcourse.pdf)
“Advancing Women in Science and Technology is Critical for Innovation,” Destler. Huffington Post
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-destler/advancing-women-in-scienc_b_3348909.html)
The Innovative University. Christensen
A Whole New Mind. Daniel Pink.
RIT’s Inclusive Excellence Framework (http://www.rit.edu/diversity/inclusive-excellenceframework-overview)
Institutional Data
- > 165 credits analysis
- Institutional data on double majors
- Usage data from Student Innovation Center
Curricular Innovation and Creativity (3)
Name
Division/
College
Position
Rec. By
Blizzard, Deb *
COLA
Faculty
SC
Hair, Neil *
SCOB/ILI
Faculty
SC
Ghazle, Hamad **
SC Member
Alum.
Self
SP Trustee
William Snyder
AABOD
Dobies, Bob
Univ. News
Director
M. Smith
Dube, Roger
COS/CIS
Faculty
Baum
Edelman, Barbara
DAR
Staff
Cauda
Gustafson, Marianne
NTID
Faculty
Hurwitz
Justice, Lorraine
CIAS
Dean
Self
Lobos, Alex
CIAS
Faculty
Flores
Magyar, Mindy
CIAS
Faculty
Justice
McQuade, Sam
CMS
Faculty
JH
Perry, Elizabeth
CHST
Faculty
Ornt
Rosen, Ellen
CIAS
Dean
Self
Sanders, Cynthia
NTID
Faculty
Hurwitz
Winebrake, Jamie
COLA
Dean
Self
* Chair
** Steering
Committee
Member
Dimension 5: Diversity
Co-Chairs: Sharon Mason, Kevin McDonald
SC Member: Mike D’Arcangelo
Trustee: Sharon Ting, Henry Navas
Alumnus: Kyle Edenzon
RIT students, faculty, and staff have much to gain from a university culture that thoroughly
integrates diversity throughout its structure, practices, and complex social fabric. A diverse and
inclusive community not only increases opportunities for creativity across the university, it is also
an indispensable tool for preparing students to succeed in a diverse and global knowledge
economy.
There is no better way to demonstrate that RIT is fundamentally animated by a commitment to a
concept of diversity extending across populations, nations, disciplines, and ideas than to infuse
our new strategic plan with the values, practices, and goals of diversity in all its manifestations.
One charge of the Diversity Task force is to consider how best to stitch part or all of the existing
Inclusive Excellence Diversity Framework into the Diversity Dimension of the new plan, using the
agreed-upon structure of Goals, Strategies, and Rationales. We will also be asking each of the
remaining five Task Forces to consider where in their reports they can integrate concepts from the
Diversity Framework.
Possible areas of focus:
Increase the development of curricula that foster domestic and international
competencies
Increase % of racial and ethnic diversity in leadership and management.
Address issues of multicultural alumni engagement
Address issues of LGBTQ inclusion
Increase % of undergraduate females, especially in STEM. 1
Address issues of female faculty recruitment and retention. 1
Address issues of AALANA faculty recruitment and retention.
Consider addition of “Asian” to minority foci.
Address issues of African American male student dissatisfaction as indicated in NoelLevitz SSI. 1
Take advantage of international student population on Rochester campus as multicultural teachers. 2
Increase and measure opportunities for students from diverse majors to “rub brains”
(mix modes of inquiry).3
Create opportunities for interaction of deaf & hard-of-hearing students with hearing
students: exploit the opportunity for creativity and innovation. 4
Prepare for major shift in student demographics of next decade.
1 Trans-dimensional with Student Success
2 Trans-dimensional with Global Engagement and International Education
3 Trans-dimensional with Curricular Innovation & Creativity and Organizational Agility
4 Trans-dimensional with Student Success
Diversity (2)
Suggested Readings for Diversity:

RIT’s Inclusive Excellence Framework (http://www.rit.edu/diversity/inclusive-excellenceframework-overview)

Diversity’s Promise for Higher Education: Making it Work – Daryl G. Smith (Books will be provided)

Environmental Scan for SP 2025 (http://www.rit.edu/president/plan2025/environmental-scan)

“Female Undergraduate Enrollment at RIT.” President’s Commission on Women

President Destler’s Response to “Female Undergraduate Enrollment at RIT.”

LGBTQ Task Force Recommendations

“More Gender Diversity Will Mean Better Science.” Diversity in Academe, 2012.

“Why STEM Fields Still Don’t Draw More Women.” Diversity in Academe, 2012

Knocking at the College Door. WICHE, 2013. Chapter 3.
http://www.wiche.edu/info/publications/knocking-8th/knocking-8th.pdf

Penn State Diversity Strategic Plan - http://equity.psu.edu/diversity-strategic-planning
Institutional Data

Benchmarking data on female and AALANA faculty

Results from 2012 Noel Levitz SSI

COACHE data

ADVANCE materials
Diversity (3)
Name
Division/ College
Position
Rec. By
Faculty
SC
Mason, Sharon *
GCCIS
McDonald, Kevin *
Diversity
VP
BD
D’Arcangelo, Mike **
Diversity
Adm.
Self
Esterman, Marcos **
KGCOE
Faculty
KMc
SP Trustee
Trustee
Navas, Henry
Trustee
Trustee
Ting, Sharon
Trustee/Diversity
Trustee
Althemie, Irshad
COLA
Faculty
HY
Atkins, Carl
AA/COLA
Faculty
MD
Baker, Renee
Diversity
Director
KMc
Baldwin, Candice
Diversity/MCAS
Director
KMc
Cahill, Nathan
COS
Faculty
Flores
Clayton, Laurie
Diversity
Director
D'Arcangelo
Cox, Jeffrey
SA/Intrntl. Students
Director
MD
Dell, Betwy
CAST
Faculty
Walker
Herring, Jeffrey
SA/Religious Life
Staff
MD
Hinesley, Henry
SA/GLBT
Staff
K. Mc
Hudson, Andre
COS
Faculty
KMc
Jensen, Lilli
SA/Intrntl. Students
Staff
MD
Jones, David
Presidents
Roundtable
Self
Justice, Lorraine
CIAS
Dean
Self
Lonthair, Sharon
DAR
Staff
Cauda
McDonald, Nancy
F & A/HR
Staff
MD
McQuiller, Laverne
COLA
Faculty
MD
Romero, Victoria
Diversity/MCAS
Staff
MD
Sandlin, Donna
F & A/Housing
Staff
MD
Sarchet, Thomastine
NTID/Diversity Group
Staff
KMc
Seeger, Michelle
GCR/Events
Director
Thoms, Charlotte
NTID
Faculty
Valentine, Maureen
CAST
* Chair
** Steering Committee
Member
Asst. Dean/Fac.
Self
KMc
MD
Dimension 6: Organizational Agility 1
Co-Chairs: Amit Ray and Howard Ward
SC Member(s): Jeanne Casares, Ed Lincoln
Trustee: Nancy Fein (remote)
Alumni: Bill Garno
Dimension Statement: RIT’s curricula, administrative, and organizational structures will serve, not
impede, discovery, border-crossing, and collaboration among students, faculty, and staff. We will
develop an operational culture in which good ideas find and drive the processes necessary to
support them efficiently.
Initiating Considerations:
 Are their RIT policies and/or practices that impede student learning? What would happen
if they were revised or eliminated?
 Conduct a discussion about non-productive meetings. Is there a creative way to reduce
their number?
 Consider instances in which faculty/staff cannot get the institutional data they need.
 Do we make sufficient use of technology to make tedious practices more efficient?
 What are the most harmful instances of silo’s and how could they be eliminated?
Possible areas of focus:
Faculty sabbaticals in another RIT college?
Create an organizational structure and university-wide accounting practices that
encourage true inter-disciplinary collaboration among students, among faculty, and
between students and faculty.
Create opportunities for students to enroll in courses traditionally “closed” to nonmajors—e.g., studio classes in CIAS.
Consider a student survey in which
Develop alternative methods for evaluating and granting credit.
Address efficiency of decision making across the university, including governance groups.
Explore alternative arrangement of teaching roles.
Remove silos impacting information sharing.
Reward groups that develop time- and angst-saving processes for decision making and
implementation.
Establish a “silo-crushing” award.
Consider a student survey exploring the most irksome and non-productive policies and
procedures.
1 Goals and Strategies developed for this Task Force are likely to be trans-dimensional with Student Success and
Innovative Curricula and Creativity.
Organizational Agility (2)
Suggested Reading for Organizational Agility
 Environmental Scan for SP 2025 (https://www.rit.edu/president/plan2025/environmentalscan)
 Creativity Committee Report (2008)
 Noel-Levitz SSI 2012 Results.
 Changing Course: Ten Years of Tracking Online Education in the United States. Babson Survey
Research Group. (http://www.onlinelearningsurvey.com/reports/changingcourse.pdf)
 The Myths of Innovation, Berkun.
 “Disrupting College,” Christensen, Horn, Caldera, Soares.
(http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/02/pdf/disrupting_college.pdf
 “Is Growth the Only Answer to Financial Stability?” Watters, RIT Open Administraton.
(https://www.rit.edu/president/protected/watters_sept_2012.pdf)
 “The Future of Colleges and Universities,” Thomas Frey.
(http://www.davinciinstitute.com/papers/the-future-of-colleges-universities-blueprint-for-arevolution/)
 RIT’s Inclusive Excellence Framework (http://www.rit.edu/diversity/inclusive-excellenceframework-overview)
RIT Data
 Institutional cost model
 RIT Data Warehouse
 List of available institutional data from Institutional Research & Policy Studies
Organizational Agility (3)
Name
Division/ College
Position
Rec. By
Ray, Amit *
COLA
Faculty
KM/JH
Ward, Howard *
F&A
Asst. VP
BD
Casares, Jeanne **
F&A
CIO
BD
Lincoln, Ed **
EMCS
Asst. to VP
Self
Fein, Nancy
Trustee
Trustee
Self
Bailey, Margaret
KGCOE
Faculty
JH
Baum, Stefi
COS/CIS
Director
Self
Concepcion, Milagros
F&A
Controller
Bond
Hauser, Doug
AA/Registrar
Ass. Reg.
Herbert, Andy
COLA/Psychology
Faculty
Flores
Hornak, Joe
COS/CIS
Faculty
Flores
Johnson, Dan
CAST
Faculty
Walker
Maggelakis, Sophia
COS
Dean
Self
Mendola, Gary
Merrill, Doug
AABOD
CBET/CHST
Alum
Faculty
Self
Ornt
Rusin, David
President's Office
Roundtable
Self
Salzano, James
Schmitz, Katie
President's Office
NTID
Roundtable
Faculty
Self
Hurwitz
Shields, Lauren
President's Office
Roundtable
BD
Slusser, Kim
DAR
Staff
Cauda