Dear Faculty, Staff, and Students,

Provost Adesida and I thank all of you who joined us in the Beckman Institute (or watched the live stream) Monday for our Town Hall meeting to discuss the emerging vision and strategic plan for the campus.

You can see a full transcript of our comments and a link to the slides we used at: http://go.illinois.edu/apriltownhall. The archived video (with the audience discussion following the talk) is also posted there and a captioned version will follow soon. If you weren't able to watch or attend, I hope you'll take a few minutes to browse these pages and learn about the current highlights of our strategic plan and about some of the strategic actions already under way.

Working together, with your engagement, critical questions, enthusiasm and expertise, we are going to be the model of the pre-eminent public research university with a land-grant mission and global impact.

Sincerely,

Phyllis M. Wise
Chancellor

Ilesanmi "Ade" Adesida
Provost