{"id":27896,"date":"2026-01-15T09:16:03","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/?p=27896"},"modified":"2026-01-15T09:19:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T14:19:22","slug":"metcalfs-strategic-plan-planning-for-our-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/metcalfs-strategic-plan-planning-for-our-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Metcalf\u2019s Strategic Plan: Planning for our future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Metcalf team has been working on a strategic plan\u2013and following it\u2013for the past year and now it\u2019s time to make it public! This plan takes us through 2028 when we will celebrate 30 years of bringing scientists and journalists together to engage deeply with each other, support scientists and science communicators in their efforts to make science accessible and actionable for their communities, and bring inspiring lecturers to the URI and Rhode Island community. We\u2019ve already accomplished a few of our actions\u2013such as re-imagining our public lecture series to include more alumni and creating an all-new fellowship for newsrooms\u2013but we still have a few more ideas to implement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<a class=\"cl-button  \" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1211\/Metcalf-Strategic-Plan-2025-2028-Updated-Jan.-14-2026.pdf\" title=\"\">2025-2028 Strategic Plan<\/a>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As with all good plans, we will update our strategy as we achieve our goals and re-imagine others as we better understand the communities. Please feel free to reach out if you have questions, ideas, or want to propose something for this plan or future plans. You can always reach our Executive Director Fara Warner at <a href=\"mailto:fara.warner@uri.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>fara.warner@uri.edu<\/strong><\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Metcalf team has been working on a strategic plan\u2013and following it\u2013for the past year and now it\u2019s time to make it public! This plan takes us through 2028 when we will celebrate 30 years of bringing scientists and journalists together to engage deeply with each other, support scientists and science communicators in their efforts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5333,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5333"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27899,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27896\/revisions\/27899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/metcalf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}