8 Texas A&M International University 1 - OVERVIEW Campus Plan Process Beginning in the fall of 2021 and coming to a conclusion in March of 2023, the campus plan process spanned 18 months and involved a large number of faculty, staff, and students from the university as well as outside alumni, partners, and community members. The process was structured into five phases: Initiate, Discover, Ideate, Develop, and Formulate. This process is structured to gather information about the campus and where it is heading, develop a series of big ideas to test with the campus stakeholders, and ultimately arrive at a preferred development concept for the near, mid, and long term futre of the campus. Each phase of the process involved an oncampus workshop, which included meetings with Executive and Vice Presidents Councils, focus group / user meetings (i.e. athletics, student life, facilities), and engagement opportunities for students, faculty and staff. Several open houses were held at different phases of the process for these members of the TAMIU community to gather input on what was important to the campus plan, share progress on the plan itself, and get feedback on the plan’s development. Highlights of this process included a student engagement session with pizza in the STC courtyard with visual preference boards, a special alumni dinner hosted on campus, and spending a saturday morning and afternoon at “Discover TAMIU,” a community open house showcasing many offerings of the university, of which the plan itself was only a small part.
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