First Objective:
MUSC will align its academic and clinical directions, include all colleges and engage its faculty in ways that meet the goals of each mission area and install supports and systems that allow us to extend and coordinate our educational efforts into the community.

First Related Strategy - Establish a governance structure that encourages and requires communication and decision-making between the clinical and academic enterprise, inclusive of all MUSC colleges.

Second Related Strategy - Create an organizational structure that provides access to educational opportunities to all students, while providing quality health care to the citizens of South Carolina.

Third Related Strategy - Incentivize and reward faculty for demonstrated excellence in teaching, similar to the bonuses, promotion and other incentives in place for research and practice.

Fourth Related Strategy - Establish and empower a coordinating body with staff support and resources to develop programs and incentives for community based preceptors; design a strategy for coordinating educational, clinical and research outreach activities to include the approval of all community based grants and the establishment of common affiliation agreements. Group should make recommendation on the evolving nature of community based education and initiatives, including the incorporation of information technology to meet its goals.

Second Objective:
The University must identify resources to support the faculty and students as they struggle to develop, and implement, the knowledge and skills needed to successfully compete in the changing academic and clinical environment.

First Related Strategy - A strong commitment by the university administration to include distributive learning systems such as off-site or distance education as an integral component of the university mission.

Second Related Strategy - Charge the University Education Infrastructure Committee (or establish a working group) with developing a plan for establishing a distributive learning support system. The duties of the Committee could include coordinating and acting as a central clearinghouse for all distributive learning activities; administering educational technology, distance education, and IT student and faculty support; etc.

Third Objective:
Develop faculty and incentives to create innovative educational programs. First Related Strategy - Create a centrally-funded center for educational excellence and professional development that promotes faculty development in creative learning paradigms and educational technologies.

Second Related Strategy - Establish focused institutional goals for education, research, patient care and business.

Third Related Strategy - Take advantage of our strongest teachers, patient care professionals, researchers and business leaders by forming small groups of 3-5 of these individuals and ask them to answer the following question: Given any desired resources, what paradigm would I develop that will further enhance my productivity and the productivity of those around me?

Fourth Related Strategy Identify processes for bringing life to each paradigm and develop a strategic plan for implementing the reengineering of critical educational, research, patient care and business processes.

Fifth Related Strategy - Develop an IT strategy for identifying the value-added and infrastructure components needed to enable these reengineered processes.