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Fresh Perspectives, New Initiatives:
LTS Unveils Strategic Plan for 2011-2015
Every five years, the Library and Technology Services
leadership group reflects on the state of LTS and develops a
strategic plan to articulate a new vision and goals for the
future.
The LTS
2011-2015 Strategic Plan is now available at
http://www.lehigh.edu/~inlts/plan, and a printed version
will be available later this month. The new plan has been
developed in the context of Lehigh's new campus-wide
planning effort, "Advancing Our Intellectual Footprint."
LTS has
developed strategies to advance broad initiatives in ten
major areas that impact the teaching, research, and
service missions of the university:
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Expand
access and enhance computing resources; provide the
opportunity to access information, library services,
communication services and computing resources from any
location, at any time for students, faculty, and staff.
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Enhance library access, services, and collections;
supply students, faculty, and staff with a robust mix of
physical and virtual library resources that enhance and
stimulate research, scholarship, and student learning.
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Create
flexible teaching and learning environments; create
flexible, technology-enabled physical and virtual
learning environments to meet Lehigh University’s
pedagogical objectives, and to encourage technology as a
means to extend and enhance Lehigh’s distinctive culture
and style as a primarily residential university.
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Foster
innovations and excellence in teaching and learning;
work with faculty across the colleges to identify and
implement forms of teaching that promote student
learning and engagement.
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Enhance and promote tools for learning; offer
development programs and enhanced technologies for
Lehigh students, faculty, and staff to
support learning.
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Support expansion and global access to distance
education programming; provide global access to high
quality distance education program offerings in all
Colleges utilizing a hybrid of delivery platforms for
undergraduate education, graduate programs, and lifelong
learning
opportunities.
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Enhance support for academic research; implement
initiatives to meet high-end computing and network
requirements in support of research and scholarship
under faculty leadership and with LTS support.
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Proliferate Lehigh’s enterprise-wide information
systems; enhance the core enterprise-wide information
system, and other integrated ancillary systems to expand
the services available to the Lehigh community.
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Enhance visibility, communications, and outreach;
promote and support the mission and services of Lehigh
University to local, state, national, and international
constituencies through state-of-the-art communication
technologies and marketing in collaboration with
appropriate academic and administrative departments.
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Expand
external support; expand financial support for LTS
Services through gifts and grants.
This
document is the culmination of many hours of collaboration
and discussion with Lehigh faculty and staff, and LTS
greatly appreciates their time and input.
- Stacey Kimmel
Article posted November,
2010
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