Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning Committee
Minutes/Notes - Wednesday, April 3, 2002
Teague Library

Present: Rick Foreman, Wes Miller, Paul Ogren, Sara Penhale, Newell Pledger-Shinn, Bob Southard, Monteze Snyder, Doug Bennett, Kirsten Bohl

White Papers

· Financial Aid - is posted on the Web site
· Faculty and Staff - is ready to be posted on the Web site
· Student Life - is posted on the Web site

In the case of the Faculty/Staff papers, we are also in the midst of seeking feedback from particular individuals/groups on campus.

We discussed the Community Life white paper and gave feedback to Sara for revisions.

Doug will write a short blurb reintroducing the white papers to the community as drafts-in-progress.

Value/Perception Matrix

We discussed the placementof "housing" on the value/perception matrix. We agreed its proper place on the grid (considering all the data) should be "low Earlham performance/medium importance to students."

We agreed that next Wednesday, we will declare the value/perception matrix final. (That is, we will declare our confidence in the placement of various items on the grid according to all the data we have reviewed.)

Doug distributed a very preliminary first draft of the committee's final report. (For circulation within the committee.) He invited committee members to send him input on the draft.

We approved the minutes for March 13 and March 27.

We agreed that future meetings would begin at 3:30 rather than 3:00 p.m. Doug will be absent next week (and cannot call into the meeting); he'll be attending an NAICU board meeting and hosting an alumni gathering in Atlanta.

Next Meeting

Next meeting will be Wed., April 10 from 3:30 till 6:00 p.m. in Teague Library.