Thanks to all of you for following our strategic plan progress and for giving input. We are now completing the draft plan and readying it for review. Draft language has been completed, and final steps are being taken for layout. Following internal approval of the draft, we will submit it to the university. The draft will post to our website in the days to come.

Until next week,

HENRY J. MANN,
PharmD, FCCP, FCCM, FASHP
Dean and Professor
College of Pharmacy
The Ohio State University

Last Friday, an open forum provided an opportunity for faculty, staff, and students to review the draft strategic plan as well as the planning process and provide feedback. Comments on the strategic plan were included in the revision which will be sent to the Office of Academic Affairs (OAA) next week.  We also have made some changes to the accessibility of information about the report and planning process. Some of these issues and their results are:

Better communication with students

Moving forward, we are making an effort to send an email version of the blog to everyone at the College of Pharmacy, including students. If you know of anyone who should be receiving this email and is not, please contact Laura Wise-Blau: wise-blau.1@osu.edu

Easier access to the blog

In addition to finding the blog at https://u.osu.edu/wise-blau.1/, you may use these links to find the blog on our website:

Faculty & Staff Resources page (under College Resources): http://pharmacy.osu.edu/faculty-staff/faculty-staff-resources

Central Business Office Information for Faculty page; http://pharmacy.osu.edu/faculty-staff/information-faculty

Posting a copy of the strategic plan online

Once the plan has been sent to university for review, we will share the draft online. Look for more information about this an upcoming blog entry.

Until next week,

HENRY J. MANN,
PharmD, FCCP, FCCM, FASHP
Dean and Professor
College of Pharmacy
The Ohio State University

As we are nearing our deadline for sending our draft strategic plan to the university, I encourage you to review our materials and give your input. The plan is available on Carmen in College Documents; please contact Kathy Kelley at kelley.168@osu.edu if you cannot find it. If you are able, please attend our open forum from 1-2:30 today in room 250 Parks Hall. We will be discussing the strategic focus areas of our plan, which are:

 Teaching and Learning

• Enrich the student experience
• Implement revised contemporary curricula

 Research and Innovation

• Become the drug discovery and development (D3) home for existing and emerging areas of research strength across OSU
• Enhance the culture of success through faculty development
•  Develop and validate clinical practice models to enhance patient care

 Outreach & Engagement

• Foster a culture and infrastructure for Outreach and Engagement
• Engage professionals and the public
• Advocate for practice change

Resource Stewardship Strategic Focus Areas

• Foster an environment that cultivates an unsurpassed faculty, and staff in the way that we teach, conduct research, and care for patients
• Recruit & retain stellar faculty, staff and students
•  Develop space, technology, instrumentation, and personnel infrastructure to support our mission
•  Create and promote The Ohio State University College of Pharmacy brand

I look forward to hearing your ideas.

Until next week,

HENRY J. MANN
PharmD, FCCP, FCCM, FASHP
Dean and Professor
College of Pharmacy
The Ohio State University

The strategic planning process began with a comprehensive scan of the environment as well as multiple SWOT analyses with key stakeholders groups. In all, eight different groups participated in SWOT analysis sessions or surveys that were conducted. The environmental scan yielded formed a critical context for our strategic plan.

Last December, a day-long retreat was held to review and provide input for the revision of the college mission and vision, as well as to begin discussions and generate ideas around each of the four core goals of the strategic plan (teaching and learning; research and innovation, outreach and engagement and resource stewardship). New mission, vision, and values statements were crafted by a team of 19 faculty and staff (our writing team)and affirmed by the college community in February.

Idea sessions were held with key faculty and staff members for each of the four core goal areas, as well as for each of our academic programs. These sessions were informed by the environmental scan and led to the formation of the focus areas and subsequent implantation initiatives for each of the four core goals. At this point, the writing team reviewed and refined the focus areas and implementation initiatives, presenting them at open brown bag lunch sessions in March and April. Updates on the process were presented at faculty and staff meetings in spring semester and drafts were posted on the college documents Carmen site. A writing team retreat was held in late May to finalize a draft.

Our work culminates with a draft plan to faculty, which we will share today. At a later point, we will post the plan on this site.

Moving forward, we will have a faculty/staff open forum from 1 p.m.-2:30 p.m., on June 13 (room 250 Parks Hall) and a Carmen Connect session in early June. On June 30, our team will send the draft plan to the university, for their feedback.

Until next week,

HENRY J. MANN,
PharmD, FCCP, FCCM, FASHP
Dean and Professor
College of Pharmacy
The Ohio State University