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University of Idaho Blue Ribbon Committee
Programs Share in Five-Year, $5.5 Million Investment Fund
Program Announced April 18, 2006
Five significant, integrative new initiatives have been selected to share in a five-year, $5.5 million strategic investment program at the University of Idaho. The announcement of funded projects culminates a year-long effort by the university to reinvest in strategic and multidisciplinary academic areas. The initiatives were recommended to University of Idaho Provost and Executive Vice President Doug Baker by the university’s Blue Ribbon Committee, and were judged to hold high promise to advance excellence in key thematic areas identified last year in University of Idaho President Timothy P. White’s Plan for Renewal.
White initiated the strategic investment effort in his February 2005 Plan for Renewal of People, Programs and Place. The investment comes from prioritizing and redirecting existing general funds, and will be supplemented by private gifts and endowments. The Blue Ribbon Committee was formed to select multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teams of faculty, staff and students who developed proposals for initiatives that could deliver positive and lasting impacts across the breadth of the university to better serve the state and beyond.
The Blue Ribbon committee received 43 pre-proposals last fall, and the committee invited eight projects to submit final proposals. Each proposal was read, ranked and discussed by the 11-member committee, and critiqued by three peer reviewers from outside the University of Idaho.
Programs Share in Five-Year, $5.5 Million Investment Fund
Program Announced April 18, 2006
Five significant, integrative new initiatives have been selected to share in a five-year, $5.5 million strategic investment program at the University of Idaho. The announcement of funded projects culminates a year-long effort by the university to reinvest in strategic and multidisciplinary academic areas. The initiatives were recommended to University of Idaho Provost and Executive Vice President Doug Baker by the university’s Blue Ribbon Committee, and were judged to hold high promise to advance excellence in key thematic areas identified last year in University of Idaho President Timothy P. White’s Plan for Renewal.
White initiated the strategic investment effort in his February 2005 Plan for Renewal of People, Programs and Place. The investment comes from prioritizing and redirecting existing general funds, and will be supplemented by private gifts and endowments. The Blue Ribbon Committee was formed to select multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary teams of faculty, staff and students who developed proposals for initiatives that could deliver positive and lasting impacts across the breadth of the university to better serve the state and beyond.
The Blue Ribbon committee received 43 pre-proposals last fall, and the committee invited eight projects to submit final proposals. Each proposal was read, ranked and discussed by the 11-member committee, and critiqued by three peer reviewers from outside the University of Idaho.