Timeline
Timeline
Key Events2024-26
Strategic Plan Progress and Related Events
Sept - Dec 2024
- Fall 2024 - Inaugural planning
- December 2024 - Leadership surveys
Jan-Feb 2025
- (BOV) Strategic Plan Group Meetings
- Leadership Retreat: Mission, Vision, & Values
- Engage faculty and staff
March 2025
- BOV Strategic Plan Group Meeting
- Faculty and Staff Strategic Plan Survey Opened
April – May 2025
- Undergraduate student focus groups
- BOV Strategic Plan Group Meeting
- Graduate student focus group
Summer 2025
- Dean continued meetings with senior leadership
- BOV and Pillar Committees to refine plan
October 2025
- Further development mission, vision, and values based on pillars
November 2025
- Communications strategy begins
November 14, 2026
- Planning session with Board of Visitors
January 9, 2026
- Senior Leadership Planning Retreat at Homewood Community Engagement Center
January 22, 2026
- Vice Chancellor Mike Holland presents briefing on M&Q Research Capacity Benchmarking Report
February 10, 2026
- Dean Manuel shares Strategic Plan at Faculty and Staff Town Hall
- Follow-up survey distributed to faculty and staff
- Results to further inform strategic plan
February 16, 2026
- Chancellor Gabel and Provost McCarthy Engage with Faculty and Staff at Topical Research Presentations
March 3, 2026
- New design of engineering.pitt.edu launched
March 16, 2026
- Faculty and Staff Engagement Survey distributed to connect expertise and energy with Pillar Leads
March 19, 2026
- Swanson School hosts 15th annual Transportation Forum for Research, Government, and Industry
- PA Secretary of Transportation Mike Carroll Delivers Keynote
March 25, 2026
- 62nd Annual Distinguished Alumni Banquet
March 28, 2026
- Swanson School hosts the 1st Annual (Pitt)sburgh & Our Neighbors MS Engineering Open House – a free regional event that brings together five universities to collaboratively support undergraduate STEM students exploring master’s-level engineering programs.
April 2026
- 180th anniversary of the first students - Isaac Morley and J. B. Stilly - to graduate as engineers from the Western Pennsylvania University in 1846
