STRATEGIC PLANNING COMMITTEE
May 20, 2005
Present: C. Bailey, C. Denard, M. Godbout, D.
Hutchinson, F. Lacomb,
N.
Pellegrino, L. Purdy, W. Roberts, A. Rollo, S. Sloan, A. Staples, S. Talbot,
Meredith VanDuyne, and P. Wahlen (speaker phone)
The
meeting began at 8:35 am.
·
Carolyn
announced that this would be the last meeting
·
The
meeting would follow the following format:
1.
Review
changes to foundations from last meeting
2.
Review
vision and mission statements, and go over rewritten introduction
3.
Review
timeline document
4.
Work
on feedback form
Carolyn
reviewed the corrections made to the document at the last meeting. Additional corrections are noted.
Pg. 7 ACADEMIC PROGRAM, D., 2. Off
Campus should be hyphenated.
Pg. 11 FACULTY,
D., 3. student Honor Code should be changed to Wells College Honor Code.
It should also be changed wherever it appears in the document.
Pg. 11 FACULTY,
E. rewritten Encourage recruitment practices and a campus climate that continues the
strong presence of women on the college faculty. ** The group struggled with this goal trying to put forth the
ideas of wanting an appropriate faculty ratio of female to male, maintaining
the strong presence of females on the faculty, and not wanting to send the
wrong message of discriminatory hiring practices. Ideas of not wanting to allow the percentage of female faculty to
drop below 50% were generally endorsed, but it was felt that putting such
quotas into the plan could lead to future difficulties. Explicit recruitment strategies and ideas to
create a climate, which encourages women to stay on at Wells (such as daycare,
tenure tract strategies, etc.), could be appropriately covered in the action
plan under this section.
Pg. 12 STAFF, C., 2. student Honor
Code changed to Wells College
Honor Code as previously mentioned.
Pg. 16 COMMUNITY, A., strength
to strengthen
Pg. 16 COMMUNITY,
A., 2. Insert that between ensure and the Community
Pg. 19 HISTORY,
A., 2. Change the word Create to Support
Pg. 22 PHYSICAL
ENVIRONMENT, C., 1. & 2. Switch the order to keep chronological sequencing
Pg. 22 PHYSICAL
ENVIRONMENT, C., 3. Change date of
Spring to date for Spring
Pg. 22 PHYSICAL
ENVIRONMENT, D., 3. Insert comma after library
personnel
COLLEGE MISSION STATEMENT & VISION STATEMENT
Pg. 5. Remove the word and
in fifth line following academic. On
same line, insert a comma after the
word resources.
***the
question came up about the revision dates located at the bottom of the
pages. They are only there for the
writing process. They will not appear
on the final documents. The suggestion
was made to include the word draft on
each page of the document as it is being submitted for review and comments.
1st line Change solidify and enhance to address
5th line Eliminate the phrase that expand the Colleges programmatic reach into new areas of
expertise
Line 14 Change move to position, and into to for
.
Carolyn
explained that she rewrote this introduction to reflect changes in the nature
of the document that developed as the plan was being written. With the few minor changes listed above,
Carolyn was applauded by all for the exquisite wording of this section and for
her efforts in the whole of the project.
TIMELINE FOR
.
A
date is to be inserted for presentation of the Plan to the alumnae.
Carolyn
submitted a rough draft of a form just as a starting place from which to
begin. A first question in developing
the form might be For what purpose are the results of the feedback to be
used? It was felt that questions
should be open-ended and solicit comments rather than a yes/no response. They may concern viability of success of the
Plan, how well the plan takes into account what is of importance to the
reviewers, and the inclusiveness of the Plan.
Since the alumnae as a group had not been formally included in making
suggestions while the Plan was being written, it is felt that a separate
introduction and feedback form be written in a way that gives them the
opportunity to comment and make suggestions at this time.
The
final draft to the general community population will go out via email today or
Monday, along with the feedback form.
Carolyn will write an introduction that will explain that this is a draft and does not include more specific
action items and benchmarks. Return of the feedback forms will need to be
returned by June 15th either by US mail, campus mail, or email. The introduction to the presentation of the
draft will also explain that the Alumnae will receive a copy of the Plan draft
under separate cover.
Acknowledgement
was made that the task of writing this plan has sometimes been difficult and
the words not easy to formulate, but all should feel a great sense of
accomplishment and reward for a task well done. Special tribute was paid again to Carolyn for all of her work and
efforts.
The
meeting adjourned about 10:20.
Respectfully
submitted: Andrea LaBaron