Questions apply to both undergraduate and graduate enrollment.

1. Task Force on Intensive Engagement for Students, Faculty & Professional Staff

Co-Chairs: Craig Bach & Adam Fontecchio

Suggested Key Questions:

1. What impact can Drexel have on the lives of its students through experiential education and through a culture of deep student engagement? How can intensive engagement increase the impact of studying, working, and commuting to or living at Drexel? How can we fully engage our learners who are online, network, or off-campus?
2. What impact can Drexel have on the lives of faculty and professional staff through a culture of deep engagement? How can intensive engagement increase the impact of working at Drexel?
3. What initiatives foster intensive engagement? How can their impact be measured? What funding will be required to implement key initiatives and what could be the source of that funding?

2. Task Force on Global Drexel

Co-Chairs: Peter Lelkes & Julie Mostov

Suggested Key Questions:

1. How do you envision Global Drexel?
2. How can Drexel shape and increase its global impact?
3. How will opportunities be prioritized? Personal relationships? What is overall strategy for globalization? How can impact be measured and assessed? Costs?

3. Task Force on Entrepreneurial Drexel

Co-Chairs: Donna DeCarolis & Michele Marcolongo

Suggested Key Questions:

1. What will differentiate Drexel's partnerships with industry, corporations, and others, from those of other universities?
2. How should those relationships be shaped and managed to best support Drexel's mission?
3. How can our activities lead to targeted translational, interdisciplinary research, entrepreneurship, and innovation as tools and hallmarks of a Drexel education?

4. Task Force on Access & Affordability

Co-Chairs: Joan McDonald & Anthony Rodriguez

Suggested Key Questions:

1. Access to a high quality education for lower-income students and/or first generation students is a fundamental value for Drexel. How does the University perform in this regard in an era of significant tuition costs and fees for attendance? What areas of the University are not diverse in terms of race and/or income among its members and why? What current efforts are underway to continue to provide access to a Drexel degree and how might these initiatives be improved?
2. What other models exist in higher education that would provide increased access to Drexel's undergraduate, graduate and professional programs?
3. Many Drexel freshmen from lower-income families and/or first generation students exit Drexel after the first year due to inability to afford tuition and having incurred significant student loan debt. How do we better manage this situation while creating better pathways for students so that graduation from college, preferably with a Drexel degree, is assured?
4. What is the Drexel value proposition? How can it best be communicated?

5. Task Force on Resource Allocation

Co-Chairs: Helen Bowman & Roger Dennis

Suggested Key Questions:

1. What is the best way to allocate resources given Drexel's mission and competing needs?
2. What principles shall Drexel use to prioritize and triage competing needs?
3. What budget model(s) will best enable Drexel to fulfill its mission and have maximal impact?

6. Task Force on Facilities & the Master Plan

Co-Chairs: Gloria Donnelly & Robert Francis

Suggested Key Questions:

1. How should Drexel University's campus/campuses be imagined/developed/improved/maintained to support Drexel's mission and the vision for the future?
2. How does the Master Plan, as developed to date, support Drexel's mission and vision for the future? How can it be enhanced by the work of the committee?
3. How should Drexel's mission, vision and goals inform the setting of priorities for new buildings, green spaces, maintenance etc., in light of competing interests and finite resources?
4. By what processes should Drexel University collect data/information/input from internal and external constituencies on the development the campus/campuses and their interface with communities?
5. By what mechanism should Senior Administration collate and disseminate information on the development of Drexel's environments?

7. Task Force on Educational Infrastructure

Co-Chairs: Kenneth Blackney & Eric Olson

Suggested Key Questions:

1. What resources need to be in place for an effective learning environment?
2. What transactional processes (scheduling, financial aid, etc.) need to be re-imagined and re-designed to minimize time, attention, anxiety, frustration, and attention on non-academic procedures?
3. How should their impact be measured? How can Drexel become a school rated highly for administrative procedures and student services?
4. How can Drexel create alums who value their time at Drexel?