response to program review report - LSU School Of Veterinary ...

Advancement and PlanningAdvancementGeneral ConsiderationsExecutive Summary/General/#2/p5The School must make a major commitment to a formal development or advancement model toidentify new partnerships, public and private, that will support the mission of the School.Efforts to increase funding of student scholarships are laudable and should continue to receiveemphasis. The DVM’s overall development program is relatively new and should be a point offocus. Innovative use of development funds to leverage state support, as occurred with theisolation unit, should be adopted as a prototype for increased funding of important programs,such as the professional program’s instructional budget, by the SVM in the future.D. Students/4. Financial Support/Professional Curriculum/p16Efforts to increase funding of student scholarships are laudable and should continue to receiveemphasis. The DVM’s overall development program is relatively new and should be a point offocus.G. Resources, Facilities and Equipment/2. Facilities and Capital Equipment/p30Innovative use of development funds to leverage state support, as occurred with the isolation unit,should be adopted as a prototype for increased funding of important programs, such as theprofessional program’s instructional budget, by the SVM in the future.The school has made a major commitment to the establishment of anadvancement program with the appointment of the Associate Dean forAdvancement and Strategic Initiatives, Executive Director for Advancement, anda Major Gifts Officer. This thrust is aimed at the establishment of acomprehensive development program to serve the SVM into the future byidentifying new partnerships, public and private, that will support the mission ofthe School. To focus the overall strategic direction of the school, a planningprocess with an external consultant has been commissioned.Strategic PlansExecutive Summary/General/#1/p5The programs suffer from the lack of an up to date strategic plan. All units need to have strategicplans, including strategic plans for research, teaching, and service.The SVM Planning Document, which has served as the guiding document since1999 has been updated on an approximately two to three-year basis, with thelast iteration ratified by the faculty in May, 2009. This is availabe on-line at:http://www.vetmed.lsu.edu/Web_pdfs/Stategic_Plan_09.pdfCBS does not generate a strategic plan specific for the department but workswithin the context of the SVM Planning Document.The original PBS strategic plan was written in 2001 and was revised in 2004.Development of the current PBS plan was initiated in September 2008, and is inthe final stages of revision after faculty input. Final faculty ratification is expected3