Senior Leadership Meeting December 15, 1998 -- Remarks
Anita Jones
Chair
Science and Technology Planning Commission

• JTC stressed dialogue – that’s an important building block for this commission.
• In a nutshell, we will create a plan to attain further excellence in science and engineered technology.
• In science and technology, change is prevalent. New discoveries are changing the face of individual sciences.
• Change is on a decade by decade basis.
• Research has become very competitive business.
• Our work will include:
1. Looking at who we are and what we have done.
2. Learning from the best, but crafting a set of principles on which the University can achieve excellence in ways no one else has.

• One challenge will be sustaining funding for the initiatives.
• It will be necessary to have a plan to sustain funding from many sources, including industry.
• Economic realities….
• By late spring, hope to have enunciated "Fundamental Principles" of what would make sense in guiding our work. Not specifics, but fundamentals.
• I strongly believe we are in era of great change.
• We have an opportunity to build something better than what we had before. We have an opportunity to educate students better, and to produce research results that lead us to a new level of achievement.
• I also believe that given the strength of the U. S. economy, we have tremendous opportunities for funding.