AUC’s integrated planning process is intended to foster synergies,  collegiality, openness and transparency to the planning and budgeting enterprise.  It is meant to support the objectives of the Strategic Themes by evaluating and approving university wide and unit plans in a multi-year timeframe.

Integrated planning encourages all units to focus on the connection between academic and administrative planning, assessment and accountability, planning and budgeting and it bridges current and long range planning. The paramount metric remains:  Each Department and each Unit’s contribution to AUC’s Mission

Since AUC announced its new planning structure, anchored in the University’s mission and guided by the President’s vision statement and the six strategic themes communicated to the university community, more than 100 units responded to the call for unit level input to the university’s long range plan for the years 2007-2012.

All proposals for new initiatives must be congruent with AUC’s Mission.  Additionally,  individual unit plans are tied to at least one of six strategic themes and related goals that have been endorsed by the Board of Trustees. Collectively, those themes and goals are designed “to improve the quality of educational activities and services of the university”.

• Strategic Themes for Long Range Planning
• Academic Excellence
• International Education 
• Operational Excellence
• Institutional Effectiveness 
• Service
• Student Experience

The long range plan represents a consolidation of input from a variety of sources and is intended to provide direction to those involved in the planning process. It is being broadly shared with the academic community because the new integrated planning process will involve just about everyone on campus.