<p>The summer months will provide many of us with time to further our individual efforts (and hopefully offer a little bit of rest). I plan to spend part of the summer furthering a planning initiative that commenced this Spring. In an effort to develop a common College vision, groups of faculty have been meeting to brainstorm what it means to be a college of excellence in 2020. This exercise, dubbed Envision 2020, relates in part to the University’s goal of becoming a top 20 public university in 2020, but it also provides us with the opportunity to create a vision of where we want to be as a college – a vision that will energize and excite alumni and friends to invest in us. My hope is that by the time school starts in August, I will have a set of documents ready to circulate to faculty and staff for comment. I look forward to continuing this discussion in forums and meetings in September.</p>