The Academic Planning Group will be conducting two open public consultation sessions in preparation for producing a draft of the academic plan. These consultations are aimed at elaborating on the core values laid out in our institution’s strategic plan and applying them to the academic plan. The Academic Planning Group has developed eight questions drawn from the feedback received during our survey in December 2014. We encourage every member of the UPEI community to participate in the process. Please sign up to attend a session in the Health Sciences Building, Room 104 on February 20 (2:30 pm–4:30 pm) or February 24th (10:00 am–12:00 noon) using the link below. If you are unable to attend either date, the questions will be posted after the sessions for a limited time to allow for further feedback. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1UyreVk1Uiq6hFamR9Rf4OW1a2FBXT4BpBZtghN… The academic plan is where our academic values get transformed into plans that can guide our future as a university. It will be the document of record for the things we believe in and the point of reference for the deployment of our efforts to support the pillars of the plan. It ‘reports’ on things academic to the strategic plan, and, in its own right, will inform an enrolment management plan to be developed at a later date. The academic plan is being created by the senate-appointed ‘Academic Planning Group’, which is made up of people from across the campus community. Our projected deadline for completing the academic plan is the end of March. We are currently in the final phase of our data gathering and initiating the writing of the plan. We have two data gathering methods remaining: (1) the Program Survey Instrument which asks questions of our degree granting programs on campus, and (2) the public consultations, which will use eight questions to try and gather value positions from our campus community.