The goals and responsibilities of the Steering Committee are as follows:

• Recommend specific charges to each task force.
• Monitor/support interdependencies across task forces.
• Make recommendations to the chancellor regarding each of the five scenarios based on task force feedback.
• Prepare the campus to maximize potential for recruiting and retaining students.
• Help us manage resource utilization.
• Provide deans and other unit leaders with knowledge concerning how to structure their operations, make adjustments, and be prepared for various contingencies.

The goals and responsibilities of the Health and Safety Practices task force are as follows:

• Identify the conditions, practices, and processes necessary to ensure the welfare and wellbeing of IUPUI stakeholders using evidence-based guidance from public health officials, along with incorporating information from an IU-wide committee led by Dean of the IU School of Medicine and Executive Vice President for University Clinical Affairs Jay Hess. 
• Reactivate on-campus programs and services when it is safe to do so.
• Ensure we have the appropriate strategies (e.g., social distancing) and resources (e.g., personal protective equipment) in place.
• Be able to react nimbly and flexibly to ongoing pandemic-related challenges.

There are several enrollment implications for the campus, ranging from how we orient new students to how we recruit domestic undergraduate and graduate students to how we serve both continuing and new international students. Four distinct yet related task forces have been formed to address these enrollment implications:

1. New Student Summer Programs (Orientation, Bridge, etc.)
2. Resident and Non-Resident Students–Undergraduate (Domestic)
3. Resident and Non-Resident Students–Graduate (Domestic)
4. International Students and Online Programs

The goals and responsibilities of the Enrollment Implications task forces are as follows:

New Student Summer Programs

• Examine how new student summer programs, including orientation and bridge, can be offered in a manner consistent with their mission.
• Recognize how COVID-19 has likely altered collegiate planning and preparation approaches for new students, thus potentially requiring adaptation of existing interventions to address these student needs.
• Offer students effective learning experiences to launch their academic careers at IUPUI.
• Share knowledge and resources to aid in their seamless transition to IUPUI.
• Promote a sense of connection to our campus.

Resident and Non-Resident Students–Undergraduate

• Examine how IUPUI can position itself as a first-choice campus for in-state students, including those for whom attending a college out-of-state may no longer be practical or ideal.
• Position IUPUI as an attractive institution to non-resident domestic students, including markets in the Midwest Student Exchange Program.
• Recruit and admit prepared and eligible students to campus in an efficient manner.
• Ensure admissions standards are maintained while working in a period of tremendous ambiguity and flexibility.
• Maximize the enrollment of both resident and non-resident undergraduate students at IUPUI for AY 2020-21.

Resident and Non-Resident Students–Graduate

• Focus on how to recruit and serve students in the vast array of IUPUI graduate and professional programs.
• Position IUPUI as an attractive institution to both resident and non-resident domestic graduate students, including markets in the Midwest Student Exchange Program.
• Recruit and admit prepared and eligible students to graduate programs in an efficient manner.
• Promote opportunities available to graduate students at IUPUI, including unique offerings, accelerated programs, and online delivery methods.
• Maximize the enrollment of both resident and non-resident graduate students at IUPUI for AY 2020-21.

International Students and Online Programs

• Examine how IUPUI can support continuing international students, especially through online programs.
• Recruit and serve new international students.
• Keep existing international students well connected to IUPUI by offering needed supports.
• Ensure international students are able to access online and remote learning options.
• Leverage online offerings to attract new international students to IUPUI.

The goals and responsibilities of the Student Affairs task force are as follows:

• Focus on ensuring that the array of support services are best positioned to meet the needs of IUPUI students.
• Pay attention to continuing students' personal development, their mental health, and their resource needs, particularly those adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Provide students interventions to complement their academic programs.
• Be responsive to unique circumstances or challenges students, including under-resourced students, are facing.
• Ensure the flexible continuity of resources supporting student success.

The goals and responsibilities of the Academic Programs task force are as follows:

• Examine the campus's educational offerings, including the technology used to support these offerings, in acute, crisis-driven contexts to ensure IUPUI continues to promote student learning and success.
• Identify existing and potential courses and programs for online delivery.
• Propose or advance market-driven opportunities for new credentials.
• Ensure IUPUI is well-positioned to emerge from COVID-19 with an inventory of courses, programs, and credentials to be flexibly delivered in various formats.

The goals and responsibilities of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion task force are as follows:

• Examine how IUPUI can maintain an inclusive environment for those historically minoritized and marginalized in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Identify and address specific needs of affinity and related groups.
• Maintain relevant programs, resources, and services for IUPUI's stakeholder base
• Ensure underserved student needs are considered and addressed in COVID-19 planning and decision-making.

The goals and responsibilities of the Research Activities task force are as follows:

• Mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on research activities to ensure IUPUI remains supportive of faculty research, innovation, and commercialization.
• Maintain and enhance current research activities.
• Minimize adverse impacts of any research disruptions.
• Capitalize on research related opportunities to address COVID-19.

The goals and responsibilities of the Auxiliaries task force are as follows:

• Identify how the COVID-19 pandemic affects the various auxiliary services with the understanding that those services must continue to foster a visitor-friendly environment.
• Provide needed services.
• Determine the revenue impacts of disruptions or cancellations related to COVID-19.
• Identify ways in which stakeholders' needs can be met in challenging times.

The goals and responsibilities of the Community Engagement, External Affairs, and Development task force are as follows:

• Identify engagement focus areas.
• Coordinate meaningful connections between internal campus resources and external stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities to address urgent student and community needs.
• Provide important campus-community connections.
• Incorporate the perspectives and needs of the community in campus decision-making.
• Foster ongoing investment in and commitment to IUPUI by external stakeholders.