
Strategic Plan

Forward and Forever: The Strategic Plan for The University of Delaware
The University of Delaware Board of Trustees approved a refreshed institutional strategic plan on Wednesday, March 16, 2022. The current plan represents a year-long process of discussion and planning that involved Trustees, senior leaders and working groups comprised of more than 150 faculty, staff and students from throughout the University, as well as a series of public forums in 2021.
Strategic Planning Committees
The Forward and Forever strategic plan is the work of a steering committee and five working groups.
Strategic Planning Steering Committee
Dennis Assanis, President (Chair)
Robin Morgan, Provost
John Long, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer
Charlie Riordan, Vice President, Research, Scholarship and Innovation
Mary Remmler, Vice President, Strategic Planning and Analysis
Beth Brand, Vice President and University Secretary
Chris Williams, Professor, Entomology and Wildlife Ecology, Chair of University of Delaware Sustainability Council
Debra Hess Norris, Trustee, Unidel Henry Francis du Pont Chair of Art Conservation
Rodney Morrison, Vice President, Enrollment Management
Levi Thompson, Dean, College of Engineering
Mia Carbone, President, Student Government Association, 2020-21
Samantha Bingaman, President, Graduate Student Government, 2020-21
Glenn Carter, Vice President, Communications and Marketing
John Pelesko, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
José-Luis Riera, Vice President, Student Life
Fatimah Conley, Vice President of Equity and Chief Diversity Officer
Michael Vaughan, Vice Provost for Equity
Lou Rossi, Dean, Graduate College
Bahira Trask, Chair, Department of Human Development and Family Sciences
Carlos Asarta, Professor, Economics, and James B. O’Neill Director of Center for Economic Education and Entrepreneurship
Kim Isett, Associate Dean of Research, Biden School of Public Policy and Administration
Sharon Pitt, Vice President, Information Technologies
Norman Wagner, Unidel Robert L. Pigford Chair in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering