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Contribute your Blue Sky IdeasWe want your Blue Sky Ideas!

The Strategic Planning Leadership Team is hosting Information Gathering Sessions. The topics, dates, times, and locations are listed in a full calender which can be found in the calendar on this page (below). We look forward to your participation. Please attend as many as you can.

The Information Gathering sessions are designed to collect ideas. To ensure that the ideas are accurately captured, we ask you to prepare a 1-page written summary of your idea and bring it to the Information Gathering session most closely aligned with your idea. You may also enter your idea here using the online form.

To access this form you must register for this site using your bbb@maine.edu or bbb@umit.maine.edu email address.  Once you register you will automatically be taken to the online contribution form.  Follow this link to register or click on the registration button at the top of this page or in the navigation to the right.

In preparing your summary, we ask that you answer the questions below. If you have more than one idea you can submit it using either the online form or by bringing it to any of the listening sessions in written form. As a reminder, you do not have to answer all of the questions, only the ones you wish to.

You may also submit your one-page ideas directly to Linda Silka, Director, Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center.

Please email Linda at, silka(at)maine(dot)edu.  Or call her at 207-581-1553.

 

Your Idea: List the name of your idea

Which topic does your idea most closely align with:

Athletics | Interdisciplinary Research Initiative | Academic Programs | Research Innovation & Economic Development | UMaine Students/Parents | University Sustainability (Including Revenue and Recruitment) | Community Engagement | Student Life | Infrastructure | Graduate Studies | Undergraduate Education | Marketing | Arts, Humanities and Culture

Please answer the questions below.  (Tip: Typing your responses on your computer then copying and pasting them into the form below will provide you with a copy for yourself and avoid the need to retype your responses should something interrupt your internet connection)

  1. What do you see as a key area of distinction at UMaine?
  2. What do you see as an opportunity or challenge that UMaine faces?
  3. What solution do you propose?
  4. How will this solution enable UMaine to achieve a new vision of institutional excellence and realize its position as a leading 21st century Land and Sea Grant University?
  5. How would you assess whether this solution is successful?

Sincerely

The UMaine Strategic Leadership Planning Team

 

To view the location and name of leaders for each session, click on the calendar item to expand the information.


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Example Idea Descriptions

Below are six examples that illustrate idea descriptions. These are examples only. Their inclusion is not intended to suggest that these have been endorsed by the Strategic Planning Leadership Team.