University Updates

ATU Strategic Plan

ATU recently formed an ATU Strategic Planning Council which will advise on the development of our new strategic plan and comprises of representatives from the Governing Body, students, staff, unions and external stakeholders. It meets every four to six weeks.

ATU Colleagues at a strategic plan consultation workshop

Consultation with staff

During January, internal consultation on ATU’s strategy commenced. The first event was a week long series of workshops called “17 Rooms” where staff came together to discuss the global challenges presented to us by the Sustainable Development Goals for the planet.

The aim of the workshops held in the South Sligo Community Enterprise Hub was to bring people together from all campuses with shared interests, to speak about current work in ATU under each of the 17 sustainable development goals and to formulate achievable actions to feed into the strategic plan process.

In addition, there was a series of meetings on each ATU campus with the President of ATU, seeking views of colleagues on a variety of topics included teasing out the idea of “One ATU”, how ATU can best serve the region and an introductory discussion on the values of the university.

There was a further round of campus meetings in March and other channels for consultation have also commenced.

Consultations with our external stakeholders will commence shortly and we hope to launch our next strategic plan in October of this year.

We have had a good thoughtful start to the strategic planning process. The range of ideas from the January sessions show that people have really engaged and are looking forward to the development of ATU. ”

Dr Des Foley, Strategic Plan Co-ordinator