The Five Pathways - 1: Maine’s Renewal
| Jake Ward, Chair; Ivan Manev, Co-Chair | |||||||
| Jen O’Leary, Owen Smith, Renee Kelly, Todd Gabe, Michael Peterson and Miles Theeman | |||||||
| Maine’s Renewal – Ensure UMaine teaching, research, outreach, workforce and economic development program excellence with close alignment to Maine’s Priority needs | |||||||
| 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | Status | |
| Strategies: | |||||||
| Reorganize/restructure relevant UMaine units such as the Foster Center for Innovation and the Department of Industrial Cooperation into a new Division of Innovation and Economic Development View Research, Innovation and Economic Development |
Fall | ||||||
| Restructure the Associate Vice President for Research, Economic Development and Government Relations position into the Vice President for Innovation and Economic Development View VP for Innovation and Economic Development |
X | Completed 9/11/12 | |||||
| Develop a comprehensive plan for engagement with state and regional economic development leaders | Spring | ||||||
| Establish the Maine Humanities Center – Funded through PRE-VUE grant View PRE-VUE information University of Maine Humanities Initiative Director’s Report |
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| Establish interdisciplinary Faculty Task Groups to review signature strength and emerging growth areas for priority funding initiatives | Spring | ||||||
| Complete | In Progress | Pending | |||||