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College Begins Strategic Planning Process
Flame Statute in front of Stevenson Hall
Flame Statue located in
front of Stevenson Hall
This week the College begins an historic five-year strategic planning process. The College Council and the Dean’s Office are calling for nominations for faculty positions on a college-wide Strategic Planning Steering Committee charged with developing a very specific five-year plan for the College. According to Dean Olson, "This is perhaps one of the single most important tasks in the life of a college." The plan will establish clear and attainable goals as well as concrete steps toward realizing those goals. The plan will allow the College to make decisions that move the College in a very definite direction for clear and understandable reasons. "If taken seriously, the strategic planning process is a rare opportunity for us to ask why not, to dream of what we become as a faculty, as a college, and as an institution," said Dean Olson.

All tenured and tenure-track faculty are eligible (and encouraged) to run in a college-wide election to fill six faculty slots on the committee (two in each of the three divisions: natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities). Other appointed representatives on the Committee will include the College’s two associate deans, three department chairs representing each of the three divisions, a civil service employee, two administrative professionals, a student representative, an emeritus faculty member, and an alumnus of the College. "We set out to create a committee that would have broad representation because we all benefit from a strategic plan that represents diverse viewpoints from all across the College," said Dean Olson.
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