With all of that input, the Task Force then engaged in a final round of evaluation. We conveyed these points to the units, and the final reports included below were then written. This narrative continues on Page 4. The campus has set a goal to increase the overall quality of campus graduate students and our graduate programs and, in particular, to raise the entering average GRE score by 20 points each year over the next five years. The charge of the Task Force is to provide a forum for our departments to work together as they develop specific objectives and ways of achieving them.
Graduate education is the responsibility of our individual units.
The expectation is that, working together and trading ideas, we will achieve a set of ambitious, achievable expectations and mechanisms for accomplishing them. Enhance the credentials of our entering graduate students through imaginative recruitment programs, and improve the quality of their academic experience once they are here. Nevertheless, we can do better, and Dean Halperin would like us to take the lead on campus in implementing Vice President Destler's vision for attracting the very best graduate students. The Task Force charges each graduate program to write a plan for improving the quality of its graduate students and their experience. These plans will be vetted in the Task Force, compared and contrasted with the others from the College, and suggestions for improvements will be made.