This original draft time line was shared with the campus community for feedback between August 23 and September 15, 2018.
Major Stages
This timeline charts the progression of the major phases of the strategic planning process throughout the 2018-19 academic year.
Fall Semester 2018
August
- Process and aims are introduced at All-College Gathering (Aug 23)
- Community offers feedback on draft process (Aug 23-Sep 15)
September
- Process feedback period closes (Sep 15)
- Steering committee nomination period closes (Sep 15)
- Plan design team revises process, following community input
- Provost and faculty cochair assume leadership of steering committee
- Community kickoff meeting
- Development of guiding vision, mission, values, and themes begins
October
- Feedback processes with campus community
- Alumni Weekend visitors are introduced to planning themes and process (Oct 5-7)
- Board of Trustees meets on campus; some sessions discuss strategic plan (Oct 17-19)
- Steering committee refines vision/mission/values
December
- Feedback processes with campus community
- Steering committee delivers guiding vision, mission, values, and themes
- Working groups for themes are identified
Spring Semester 2019
January
- Plan is discussed at All-College Gathering (Jan 31)
- Campus-wide event
February-April
- Working groups convene regularly. They frequently connect with the community to gather input and share updates on goals, objectives, and emerging directions.
- Board of Trustees meets (Feb 13-15)
- Plenary and reflection session among all planning group participants
- Feedback process with campus community
May
- Working groups incorporate feedback
- Steering committee oversees production of draft components of strategic plan for Board of Trustees
- Board of Trustees discusses preliminary draft plan during May meeting (May 15-16)
- Draft available to community for review and feedback
Summer/Fall 2019
After the preliminary plan is shared, the steering committee will refine and finalize it. Campus-wide work will begin in the fall on the implementation plans that will support the strategic plan's goals and objectives.
Summer
- Steering committee revises plan based on trustee and campus feedback
- June: Board of Trustees retreat reviews and approves the plan story and framework (vision, mission, values, themes, goals, objectives, narrative, implications, tradeoffs)
- Final vision/mission/values are written
- Final plan is written and designed
Fall
- Late August or Early September: Implementation planning kickoff events
- October: Board of Trustees approves final plan