Beyond Boundaries

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“Envisioning Virginia Tech – Beyond Boundaries” is an exercise in imagining a vision for Virginia Tech a generation into the future. Beyond Boundaries engages the university-wide community in a long-range visioning process, charting a course to position Virginia Tech as a top 100, global university while addressing the challenges and opportunities in the changing landscape of higher education.

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Browsing Beyond Boundaries by Author "Edwards, Jaimie"

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    Discovering New Funding Models
    Walz, Jerald H.; Edwards, Jaimie (Virginia Tech, 2016-04-12)
    During the course of its meetings, the Funding Models Committee prepared a funding vision statement, identified core values essential to Virginia Tech’s identity, and developed Preparestrategies for the future. The funding vision conceives of a future that understands the dynamic nature of higher education while identifying new revenue mechanisms, managing costs, and maintaining the high quality of research and education at Virginia Tech. The core values embrace ideals that are essential to maintaining the university’s identity and frame the future; without them, Virginia Tech ceases to be Virginia Tech. Strategies for the future provide broad options to university leaders for implementing the funding vision while maintaining the university’s core values.
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    Funding Models and Virginia Tech
    Edwards, Jaimie (Virginia Tech, 2015-10)
    As Virginia Tech moves towards becoming an internationally recognized, global land- grant institution, considering current and identifying new funding sources will be critical in its endeavor... This paper seeks to examine some of the challenges and opportunities associated with funding sources that Virginia Tech will face as it moves forward over the next 30 years and beyond. These areas include state appropriations, tuition and fees, endowment opportunities, federal dollars, and other opportunities.
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    Idea Bank: Results and Analysis
    Edwards, Jaimie (Virginia Tech, 2016-04-28)
    Launched in September 2015, the Beyond Boundaries idea bank was created by the Office of the Senior Fellow for Resource Development to engage the Virginia Tech community with the Beyond Boundaries Initiative. The purpose of the idea bank was to gather ideas from the university community that would advance the initiative’s two goals: advancing as a global land-grant university and addressing the changing landscape of higher education. Respondents were given the option to respond to six prompts that correlated with these themes.
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    Visioning Initiative: Inventing the Future of Virginia Tech
    Edwards, Jaimie; Hundley, Meredith; Sharif, Fatima Sparger; Keeney, Katherine Preston; Miller, Mallory (Virginia Tech, 2015-08)
    The year 2047 will be the 175th anniversary of Virginia Tech. In order for the university to be well positioned to meet the needs of the communities it serves at this monumental point in time, Virginia Tech is preparing for two related goals: advancing as an internationally recognized, global land-grant institution, and strategically addressing the challenges and opportunities presented by the changing landscape of higher education. This paper offers as a university-wide visioning process to address the complex questions facing our institution. The effort is conceived from an analysis of Virginia Tech’s strategic plan, President Sands’ installation remarks, the State Council for Higher Education in Virginia’s 2014 strategic plan, literature on the changing landscape of higher education, and the work and characteristics of benchmark institutions. From this research, we identified seven elements of the changing landscape and four thematic areas of inquiry that will serve as the foundation for the initiative.