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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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- Community RelationshipsHundley, Meredith (Virginia Tech, 2015-10)“Community relationships” is a broad term used in the higher education literature to describe a university’s relations with the community in which it finds itself situated... This paper touches on some of the interactions between these players and the effects of a university’s presence in a community... This paper begins with a focus on the local and regional roles Virginia Tech plays and the challenges it faces. The second section focuses on its relationship with the commonwealth including some of those tension points followed by a brief exploration of the impact of its land-grant mission on this relationship.
- Considering Student Population Trends for Virginia Tech's FutureHundley, Meredith (Virginia Tech, 2015-10)As Virginia Tech looks towards its 175th anniversary, questions regarding what kind of student body it intends to serve must be answered. At present, the university is serving an almost-exclusively “traditional” student body, which is typical of many residential colleges and of its peer institutions. The university will almost certainly continue to recruit and be attractive to this population, which is likely to grow in the future based on current Census projections. There are also opportunities to expand its role as the “people’s university” to educate more of the non-traditional student populations as part of its land-grant mission.
- Envisioning the Campus of the FutureHundley, Meredith (Virginia Tech, 2016-05-05)The Beyond Boundaries visioning initiative identified the “campus of the future” as one of four thematic areas of inquiry central to Virginia Tech responding to a changing landscape and advancing as a global land-grant university. The initial topics assigned to the group to address included determining future facilities and infrastructure needs for the ways in which students, faculty, and staff learn and work, and exploring the role of technology in tomorrow’s university. This report documents the educational trends that the group identified as influencing the campuses of the future and the principles and visioning ideals guiding this direction. Participants propose three transformative platforms to organize and support the campuses of the future.
- Envisioning the Learning Spaces of the FutureHundley, Meredith (Virginia Tech, 2015-10)Envisioning Virginia Tech in 2047 requires an understanding of the ways in which the university may alter its physical landscape to adapt to the more metaphorically changed higher education landscape. The physical setting will be one reflection of the global land-grant mission at Virginia Tech. We must question the ways that the university of the future might be structured and where it will be located, such as looking at non-traditional delivery options and classes, and whether and towards what ends will there be a continued need for and investment in large capital projects. Shifts away from both geographic homogeneity and traditional course delivery present new challenges to all institutions. These institutions may seek to modify the university campus to best meet the needs of their changing communities and create new mechanisms for interaction and outlets for socialization for geographically-dispersed populations. As higher education institutions look towards the future to evaluate which types of investments they will make in what facilities and towards what ends, several issues will likely, or at least should, be taken into consideration. This paper addresses some of these factors that Virginia Tech will need to consider in the coming generation in terms of the ways in which knowledge will be created and delivered and the physical infrastructure needs of the university community.
- Visioning Initiative: Inventing the Future of Virginia TechEdwards, 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.