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Planning and Priorities Committee
Ranks Goals
The All-College Planning
and Priorities Committee met three times during the fall 2001 semester
to review and rank the 55 goals listed in the College’s institutional
plan. Those goals and the nine institutional priorities they support were
developed by the planning and priorities committee with input from the
campus community. In addition to the goals and priorities, the institutional
plan contains vision and mission state- ments, implementation strategies,
and key performance indicators. Approved by the Ithaca College Board of
Trustees last spring, the institutional plan will help determine the College’s
direction in the next several years. Members of the College community
may view a complete copy of the plan at www.ithaca.edu/plan.
"This planning
process began in 1999, with retreats and round-table discussions that
involved all segments of the campus community," says William Scoones,
interim provost and vice president for academic affairs and chair of the
planning and priorities committee. "This effort has been a constructive
endeavor involving all areas of the College community."
In considering the
goals, the committee identified resource development and diversity as
the two most pressing of the nine priorities. The other priorities are
academic program development, enrollment, experiential and performance-based
learning, facilities, quality of student life, quality of work life, and
technology.
In its fall 2001 meetings
the committee ranked the following 8 goals as the most critical of the
55 in supporting those priorities:
- Use the findings
of the strategic planning process and long-term facilities plan to determine
where we are going as an institution, identify ongoing needs of schools
and departments, and determine the needs that could be met through a
campaign or enhanced fund-raising initiatives.
- Increase the diversity
of the Ithaca College population --- students, faculty, staff, and trustees
--- with regard to age, race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation,
physical ability, and religious belief, and ensure equity in admissions
and employee positions.
- Enhance campus
residential life to position the College as a national model for living/learning
environments.
- Implement regular
program review for each of the academic programs at the College.
- Ensure that all
employees have balanced workloads appropriate to their job descriptions.
- Independent of
a campaign, maximize financial support from private and public sources
to strengthen the College’s academic and administrative programs.
- Develop and maintain
a facil-ities master plan consistent with the College’s mission statement.
- Develop a procedure
that ensures compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act and
other federal legislation on disability and enhances overall accessibility
in all facilities.
"The committee
will continue to meet monthly throughout the spring semester," Scoones
says. "We will be considering individual and group reports and continue
to make progress on our top-ranked goals, some of which we plan to have
implemented by the end of the calendar year. Some of the goals, such as
those associated with diversity, will remain ongoing projects."
In addition to reviewing
the top-ranked goals, the committee will be reviewing the status of the
lower-ranked ones. "All the goals are important, but realistically
we had to determine an order in which they should be approached in order
to be most effective in accomplishing the institutional priorities,"
Scoones said.
All-College Planning and Priorities
Committee
Chair
- William Scoones,
interim provost and vice president for academic affairs, Office of the
Provost
Members
- Mary Bentley,
associate professor, Department of Health Promotion and Human Movement
- Nathan Best
’04, SGA president designee, Roy H. Park School of Communications
- Ellen Bonaguro,
associate dean, School of Humanities and Sciences
- John Bradac,
director, Office of Career Services
- Verna Brummett,
associate professor, Department of Music Education
- Lee Byron,
associate professor and chair, Department of Theatre Arts
- Mark Darling,
recycling/resource program coordinator, Office of Physical Plant
- Gretchen DeBolt,
assistant director, Office of Alumni Relations
- Mary Ann Erickson,
assistant professor, Gerontology Institute
- Howard Erlich,
dean, School of Humanities and Sciences
- Heinz Koch,
professor, Department of Chemistry
- Mike Lindberg,
assistant director, Division of Intercollegiate Athletics
- Marian MacCurdy,
associate professor and chair, Department of Writing
- Michael McGreevey,
executive assistant, Office of the President
- Kristina Pervi
’02, student trustee, School of Humanities and Sciences
- Nancy Pringle,
vice president and College counsel, Office of the College Attorney
- Ryan Prosser
’03, student at large member, School of Humanities and Sciences
- Gordon Rowland,
associate profes-sor and chair, Department of Organiza-tional Communication,
Learning, and Design
- Tanya Saunders,
assistant provost, special programs, Office of the Provost
- Carl Sgrecci,
vice president and treasurer, Office of the Treasurer
- Lillian Tavelli,
manager, Traffic Bureau, Office of Campus Safety
- Marina Todd,
director, Office of College Relations
- Robert Ullrich,
dean, School of Business
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