Heart Subcommittee
Charge
The committee will consider the following potential strategies along with others that may emerge during the planning process:
- Enhance leadership co-curricular programming and curricula, including those offered in the Office of Integrated Advising & Career Readiness, the Office of Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability, the Office of Civic Engagement, and the Office of Global Citizenship;
- Expand advising and engaged learning opportunities on and off the Domain;
- Establish the University of the South as a model of social and environmental justice, civic engagement, and community involvement
- Build upon the progress of the Division of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; the Truth, Racial Healing, and Transformation Campus Center;, the Roberson Project; and Indigenous communities initiatives;
- Reinforce the University’s Climate Accountability Plan;
- Promote spiritual reflection on sustainable practices and sense of place and purpose;
- Enhance athletics and its capacity to promote student success and leadership;
- Enhance the holistic health and well-being of the University community;
- Reinforce the University’s Episcopal heritage, identity, relationships, and spiritual life on campus.
Chair:
- Kevin Reynolds, Associate Provost for Library and Information Technology Services*
Membership:
asterisks (*) indicating membership on the standing Strategic Planning Committee
- Sibby Anderson-Thompkins, Vice Provost for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion*
- Mishoe Brennecke, Professor of Art History*
- Julie Curd, Regent
- Andrea del Balso, Office of Global Citizenship
- Julia Gatta, Professor of Pastoral Theology, School of Theology*
- Peter Gray, Chaplain*
- Kim Heitzenrater, Integrated Advising and Career Readiness*
- Erica Howard, Dean of Students
- Chris McDonough, Professor of Classics*
- Sara McIntyre, Office of Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability*
- Katy Morgan, Professor of Psychology
- Amy Patterson, Professor of Politics and Director of the Office of Civic Engagement
- Kris Paul, Student Trustee*
- John Shackelford, Director of Athletics*
- Jennifer Bulkeley Staats, Trustee
- Deborah Vaughn, Vice President for University Relations
