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The Vision 2020 Advisory Council serves in an advisory role to the President and Provost to facilitate the implementation of Vision 2020 for Texas A&M University. The purpose of the Advisory Council is to help ensure that the Vision 2020 imperatives are important components of all University planning and strategic actions.

ADVISORY COUNCIL ESTABLISHED BY PRESIDENT GATES
August 17, 2004

Chair: Mr. Jon Hagler '58, Partner, Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Company
Coordinator: Mr. Robert T. Bisor III '86, Assistant to the President

Internal University Participants:

  • Speaker, Faculty Senate: Dr. J. Martyn Gunn, Professor & Associate Department Head, Biochemistry & Biophysics, College of Science
  • Student Body President: Mr. Jackson Hildebrand '05
  • Graduate Student Body President: Ms. Cassie Rutherford '02
  • Dr. Michael Hitt, Distinguished Professor, Joseph Foster Chair in Business Leadership & the CW & Dorothy Conn Chair in New Ventures, Department of Management, Mays Business School
  • Dr. Valerie E. Taylor, Department Head & Stewart & Stevenson Professor, Department of Computer Science, Dwight Look College of Engineering

External University Participants:

  • Dr. Ed Davis '67, President, Texas A&M Foundation
  • Mr. Hector Gutierrez '69, Managing Director-Business Development, HillCo Partners
  • Mr. Robert "Bob" Harvey '77, Executive Vice President, Power Generation & Supply, Reliant Energy
  • Mr. Paul W. "Bill" Toler '76, Vice President Iams Japan, Asia & Latin American, The Iams Company

The Council's charge is to meet periodically to assess the University's progress and development relative the goals articulated in the Vision 2020 report, including the four priorities emphasized on January 31, 2003:

  • Elevate faculty (Imperative 1)
  • Improve new space (New Imperative 13)
  • Diversity and globalization (Imperative 6)
  • Improving graduate and undergraduate programs (Imperatives 2 & 3)

2001 ADVISORY COUNCIL ESTABLISHED BY PRESIDENT BOWEN

  • Review and evaluate the strategic plans of major TAMU units regarding their contributions to the achievement of Vision 2020 targets and goals.
  • Champion the imperatives and goals of Vision 2020 to important internal and external constituencies of TAMU.
  • Recommend to the President and Provost new programs and strategic actions judged important by the Advisory Council for the achievement of Vision 2020 imperatives and goals.
  • Communicate to appropriate external constituencies the criticality of higher education for the economy of Texas; champion the importance of establishing an upper tier of research universities in Texas and that TAMU be in this tier.
  • Periodically review the imperatives and goals of Vision 2020 to ensure their continued relevance for TAMU to become one of the top ten public universities by 2020.
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