Charge to the Committee on Planning and Priorities

The Committee on Planning and Priorities is charged to develop specific goals, objectives and initiatives in order to accomplish The College's special emphasis for the next three years: to become "a national exemplar in the education of community members to sustain and advance the communities in which they live."

Specifically, the Committee is charged to focus its attention on the following areas:

• An accountable and open planning process inclusive of voices from all stakeholder populations.
• A continued commitment to excellence in scholarship and academic ideals that will be manifest in academic planning, with particular attention to interdisciplinarity.
• A commitment to diversity that will be manifest in proactive faculty, staff, and student recruitment and retention plans, and in academic and co-curricular planning.
• An encouragement of international perspectives that will be manifest in academic and co-curricular planning.
• Valuing the sense of shared community that will be manifest in facilities planning, academic and co-curricular planning, and administrative structure review.
• An acknowledgement of the necessity to reach out to the larger world, particularly to the corporate communities and public service agencies, that will be manifest in facilities master planning and academic and co-curricular planning.
• A recognition of the importance of communication and of the exponential growth in information in the 21st century that will be manifest in facilities and academic planning that integrates and enhances the use of technology and information management.