This website provides members of the Dedman College community with the opportunity to learn about and participate in the strategic planning process currently underway.
The Dedman College Strategic Planning Committee was formed in August 2010 and will complete its work early in 2011. This website is part of the Committee’s efforts to make the strategic planning process broadly based, inclusive, and transparent. The Committee encourages everyone in the Dedman College community—faculty, staff, students, alumni, and supporters—to be actively involved in the critical task of charting the College’s future course.
“These are exciting days for SMU and Dedman College. The University's rising position in the national rankings is an important affirmation of ongoing progress and, in the coming months and years, we can look forward with much anticipation to the groundbreaking of the Bush Library, SMU’s centennial celebrations, and the launch of an ambitious new general education curriculum. This fall we welcomed the largest and, it appears, the most talented freshman class in the history of the institution. Research funding is also at record levels and the significant contributions of SMU scientists and scholars to the lives of people in Dallas, across the country, and indeed around the world are being recognized now more than ever before.
“Amidst all this promise, I believe we stand at a defining moment for Dedman College. The College has all the makings of greatness: exceptional faculty, staff, and students, strong institutional leadership, and a community of alumni and supporters that recognizes the need for a strong core of liberal arts education and world-class research at the heart of SMU. Expectations are understandably high, both on and off campus, so it is imperative, now as never before, for Dedman College to sharpen its focus, to define a vision for its future, to be bold (even audacious), to demand the best of itself and to deliver the world-class excellence in the humanities and sciences, in teaching and research, in public engagement and community service that we all expect of it.”
– William M. Tsutsui, Dean and Professor of History
Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences