Access: The General College Magazine

Abstract

In his strategic positioning plan, adopted by the Board of Regents in June 2005, President Bob Bruininks has challenged the University to change. The Regents have set the bar high for academic improvements, with a 10-year aspiration that the University emerge as one of the top three public research universities in the world. That Strategic Positioning Initiative (www1.umn.edu/systemwide/strategic_positioning/) makes 40 recommendations affecting nearly every corner of the Twin Cities campus, including the merger of six colleges into three. Under the plan, General College will become a department in a transformed College of Education and Human Development.