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The CAS Strategic Planning committee is charged to develop a broad, comprehensive,
and collaborative strategic planning document that will guide the College of Arts
and Science’s planning and decision-making processes. The committee will utilize the
information gained from the college’s visioning and strategic planning Charrettes
and align our plan within the University’s mission, vision, guiding principles to
develop a shared vision for the college.
During the Fall 2023 semester the committee will fully engage with stakeholders to
establish the college’s strategic direction and develop long-range priorities in support
of student, academic, and facility needs. The committee will present to the Dean the
results of this comprehensive and shared governance process through a coherent and
aspirational document that clearly aligns with the University’s mission and financial
position and its long-range opportunities and priorities.
Responding (at minimum) to emails over summer, attend meetings when available.
Understanding the components of a strategic plan and the process.
Planning and hosting sessions to engaged identified stakeholder groups in the development
of the objectives and goals for the institutional strategic plan, and providing feedback
to those groups on a continuing basis, through a variety of fora.
Actively working with key college-wide committees such as CGT for feedback and dissemination.
Creating and sending out surveys.
Collecting and reviewing data.
Communicating with constituents and community.
Ensuring a transparent and fair process.
Actively participating in the strategic planning committee.
Promoting and advocating for the plan to all stakeholders (internal and external).
The Committee met to discuss the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges
of the College. The Committee took into consideration the Charrette generated Objectives
and Action Items to meet a Goal. The information gleaned from the Charrette assisted
in identifying a list of issues (current state) that we could use as a starting point
as we do more work listening this Fall. Observations during the SWOC meeting included:
Does the issue rise to the strategic/institutional level or is it an operational issue?
If it is an operational issue, but symptomatic of a larger problem, the issue should
be redefined.
In many cases, there is strong correlation between strengths and opportunities or
threats and weaknesses. A discussion of these related issues often helps committee
members develop an understanding of possible solutions.
The discussion should focus on quantifiable definitions where possible.
Pertinent elements:
Identify gaps between current conditions and vision (where we want to go).
Issues that occur in more than one gap are linked to other issues (something to work
on).
Align the details of the SWOC and the vision to identify the gaps.
Strategic Planning Website development (Pi) (10 min)
Thoughts for inclusion on website
Fall Strategic Planning Departmental Meetings and Logistics (20 min)
Goal
Structure
What will we want to gather and how?
Assignments for meetings
Draft Strategic Plan Template Review (30 min)
This was developed based on the Charrette and our Gap Analysis. Attempting to keep
it minimized.
Reviewed the draft (Objectives/Themes; Action Items; Key Performance Indicatord (KPIs)).
Additional edits have been made at this point with Clay’s input. This document and
our plan moving forward this Fall will be part of the Fall CAS College wide meeting
on Aug. 10 3-5.
Discussed the process for moving forward in the Fall. Committee will meet one more
time prior to the August 10th college wide meeting.
We will plan which of our committee members will meet with which departments. Need
to discuss what information we need the departmental strategic plan liaisons (2 per
department?) to gather prior to our committee member/liaison meetings.
Agreed that Laura will send out a draft template to be discussed at our next meeting.
This draft will be provided to the departmental liaisons to assist them in gathering
feedback that we are looking for regarding their programs.
7/10/23 & 8/2/23 Meeting: Edit/Finalize Draft Strategic Plan Template
Discuss format for Fall meetings with departments, assign departments, everyone on
the committee should plan on meeting with a min. two departments.
Review content of the attached document which was developed and reviewed by the Dean
and A. Deans. Our thinking behind this document is outlined below: We now have a set of Strategic Initiatives, Objectives (more specific than Initiatives),
and Action items (more specific than objectives) in the strategic plan. Let’s find
out where the needs are (besides salary which might be addressed at least in some
capacity by the time this document is finalized). What are the wants/needs of the
faculty and staff in the departments in terms of stuff, staff, programs, and students?
Let’s ask them. This document is designed to establish things that we can do in the
first year of the strategic plan and then asks the departments to be creative is thinking
about how that need actually allows the department to grow in ways that align with
the strategic initiatives. The idea would be to accomplish these tasks and use them
as the Key Performance Indicators demonstrating that we are making progress on our
strategic plan. We would be gathering this feedback from the chairs at their leadership
team retreat, and gathering thoughts from the departments through our Fall meetings
with them. We could also offer a formstack of this document on the strategic planning website that would be open during the same time of the semester for anyone who for one reason
or another cannot meet with their departmental liaison to offer feedback. Open for
further discussion.
Discuss what we want to say about the strategic plan at the college meeting. One slide
or two?
Any feedback from College Meeting about Dream Big? Any Dept. discussions? - No submissions.
Only one deparment discussed and provided feedback to Laura.
Updates to pace of strategic planning. - This is due to the University plan due Jan
2024 to the BOG. Will have an impact on our overall planning and timeline will shift
to finalized plan being presented by end of Spring 2024.
Discuss format for Fall meetings with departments, assign departments, everyone on
the committee should plan on meeting with a min. two departments. - Assignments for
members to visit with CAS departments to get feedback on Draft Plan and Dream Big.
During the Fall 2023 semester the committee will fully engage with stakeholders to
establish the college’s strategic direction and develop long-range priorities in support
of student, academic, and facility needs. The committee will present to the Dean the
results of this comprehensive and shared governance process through a coherent and
aspirational document that clearly aligns with the University’s mission and financial
position and its long-range opportunities and priorities.
The Committee met to discuss the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges
of the College. The Committee took into consideration the Charrette generated Objectives
and Action Items to meet a Goal. The information gleaned from the Charrette assisted
in identifying a list of issues (current state) that we could use as a starting point
as we do more work listening this Fall. Observations during the SWOC meeting included:
