Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts

Goal 1: Provide premier education in the liberal arts and professions

Establish IAC as a nationally recognized model of cross-disciplinary and experiential liberal arts education for the 21st century.

Enhance graduate and professional education in targeted areas that build on IAC and GT strengths

Ensure excellence in learning through continually enhancing faculty quality and depth of expertise to promote excellent intellectual infrastructure.


Objectives for Goal 1

Integrate international, national or local internships, co-ops, volunteerism, activism, as well as research experiences into IAC curriculum

Lead the Institute in the development of study abroad programs, including the development and assurance of quality for the International Degree Designation

Bring together professional education and the liberal arts

Emphasize application of the arts in the creation of new knowledge and lead in integrating science and technology in the liberal arts

Increase size of tenure-track faculty by 20% in next five years


Goal 2: Lead the GT community in fostering human and intellectual diversity

Provide greater understanding of a globally interdependent world

Recruit and retain students, faculty and staff with diverse backgrounds and identities, with regard to gender, race, ethnicity, culture and intellectual commitment

Support a learning environment that promotes and respects diverse perspectives


Objectives for Goal 2

Continue to exceed GT goal of 50% in international education

Insure that IAC continues to be the college with the greatest percentage of women and reaches parity with the general population for racial diversity among faculty and students

Provide an increased focus on diversity of gender, race, culture and class in both curricular content and co-curricular experiences


Goal 3: Continue to build enhanced research identity and profile for IAC

Increase substantially the depth and quality of research faculty

Sustain momentum of increased externally funded grants and contracts

Pursue aggressively large collaborative grant opportunities

Facilitate research for faculty actively engaged in scholarly work in humanities and social science


Objectives for Goal 3

Seek 75% faculty participation in external projects (including external funding, collaboration with parties outside GT)

Double external research funding

Seek 50% undergraduate student participation in research
Create IAC research neighborhoods

Place in top 10 internationally in at least 3 research areas

Secure resources to insure faculty and graduate student resources competitive with peers to ensure high quality PhD programs in existing and additional targeted areas

Use benchmark analysis to aggressively market IAC brand in the academic market place


Goal 4: Local, national, and global outreach and service

Promote cultural, intellectual and professional outreach

Enhance connectivity of IAC with local, national and international communities through college programs and events

Boldly increase visibility and understanding of the new liberal arts at Georgia Tech


Objectives for Goal 4 Bring GT expertise to local community

Continue leadership within GT in local outreach involving poetry, economic development, and local schools

Bring national and international expertise to GT and the region

Enhance national and international programs such as Nunn forum, CPBIS

Professionalize communications

Support and reward outreach efforts


Goal 5: Reliable, transparent and user-friendly digital technology

Develop first class educational and research facilities that advance the use of digital technology

Enhance collaborative research on learning and innovation within digital environments

Insure transparency and efficiency in technology applications and processes


Objectives for Goal 5

Provide state of the art, well supported, well functioning technology in classrooms

Provide each faculty with computer equipment updates once every three years installed within two weeks of arrival

Provide seamless integration of technology in classroom, research environment and administrative support

Collaborate with the library in the development of electronic resources for social science and humanities research


Goal 6: Develop a supportive and collaborative administrative infrastructure Encourage staff development opportunities

Encourage best practices in administrative service

Improve communication among Schools, between Schools and College and with the Institute


Objectives for Goal 6

Increase staff resources to support smart and appropriate growth in programs

Provide opportunities for growth and development by working with the Institute and the USG to increase flexibility in appointments and advancements.

Increase staff coordination and communication

Insure regular meetings

Provide periodic workshops

Share expectations and IAC vision with all


Goal 7: Develop physical locations for IAC consistent with mission

Create a liberal arts community on campus

Insure that each unit occupies space that is safe, physically appropriate and up to date for its pedagogical and research needs

Insure that IAC participates in on-going planning for future educational space on campus


Objectives for Goal 7

Provide sufficient space for growth appropriate to the increased role of the liberal arts in the Georgia Tech experience

Provide proximate, environmentally sound space that attracts new students and faculty and facilitates collaboration

Incorporate café or coffee cart space that will support community development