WCER Strategic Planning
In the first six months of 2021, WCER engaged in a strategic planning process guided by WCER's values:
- Innovation and Excellence
- Equitable Education
- Affirming and Increasing Diversity
- Healthy Workplace
- Partnering Across Differences
The goals of this process were:
- Identify the knowledge, skills and awareness of positionality needed to integrate diversity, equity and inclusion into the center’s daily operations;
- Improve and expand the center’s services equitably to UW-Madison students, faculty, and academic and university staff;
- Operate as a learning organization that uses systematic problem solving, experimentation, learning from its own and others’ diverse experiences and the efficient transfer of knowledge to achieve its mission;
- Promote high-quality, community-connected local, state, national and international research on education; and
- Expand and diversify its sources of funding for research.
Read the complete 2021 Strategic Plan.
Initial Findings
Surveys and focus groups were conducted as part of the data-gathering process for understanding the current and desired states of the center’s services. Principal investigators, WCER stakeholders, and campus peers were asked to provide feedback.
- WCER Project Feedback: Administrative Services Survey Report of Findings — November 2021
- Current State Assessment of Human Resources Report of Findings — June 2021
- Technical Services Focus Groups Report of Findings — December 2021
Strategic Plan Update Reports
