Development of the strategic plan moves forward next week with a meeting of Council, the University’s governing body.
The discussion document, ‘Setting the scope of our ambition’, has been discussed at a wide range of meetings since it was issued on 19 October. It has garnered more than 100 detailed online responses from staff and students, and has even created positive coverage on the pages of the THES (9 November).
The Vice-Chancellor, Professor Michael Farthing, said: “I am pleased by the engagement and debate which this has engendered. I am glad that Sussex is welcoming the opportunity to think about a positive and ambitious future.”
Following the meeting of Council on 22 and 23 November, there will be further discussion at Senate later this term, with draft plans then presented to a further Council meeting in January 2008.
The campus community will continue to be kept up to date and involved as the strategic plan is developed.