(At the bottom of this page is a "response sheet" that you can use as a guide when you e-mail your responses regarding other goals and/or initiatives that you would like to see added to the Strategic Plan Draft. Thank you.)

1. Goal: To provide an educational experience of the highest quality that supports a rigorous, joyful, accessible, and safe engagement in the study and practice of the liberal arts and sciences.

Initiatives:

New Science Building

Access for Physically Disabled

Increase Library Holdings

Increase Tenure-Track Positions

Air-conditioning in public-use spaces

Renovation of the first floor of Main

2. Goal: To honor the 136-year history of Wells as a women’s college by establishing significant and lasting ways to acknowledge the history of the college and the contributions of women to Wells, to the nation, and to the world.

Initiatives:

Founders’ Day Ceremony

Establishing Endowed Chairs Named for Wells Women

Establishing the Wells College Center for Research on Women

Wells Women Hall of Fame

1868 Club

Tenure-track lines in Women’s Studies

Foundation Course in Women’s Studies/History

Curricular Sensitivity to Women’s History

3. Goal: To support and encourage a campus-wide community environment that fosters awareness and respect for gender, cultural, and social diversity as it encourages responsible, ethical action in an interdependent world.

Initiatives:

Support the Development and Implementation of a Community-Wide Diversity Plan

Workshops and Programming on Diversity, Ethics, Awareness

4. Goal: To maintain and support a faculty that is skilled in teaching, dedicated to rigorous intellectual development, and actively committed to pursuing new knowledge and learning strategies.

Initiatives:

Increase Faculty Salaries

Increase Technology Use and Access for Teaching and Research

Continue to Provide Research Sabbaticals

Faculty Workshops

Scholarly Lectures

Encourage Conference Attendance

5. Goal: To provide opportunities for students to understand the ways in which the study of the liberal arts improves their intercultural understanding of the world beyond the academy and enriches their lives as creative and contributing members of the society.

Initiatives:

Experiential Learning

Service Learning

Internships

Entrepreneurship Models

Student Research

6. Goal: To support the academic pursuit and holistic development of students by offering a living environment that is safe, respectful, healthy, educational, and fun.

Initiatives

Improvements to dormitories

Encouraging a smoke-free environment

Building a more useful physical education facility

Increasing access and use of technology in learning

7. Goal: To provide a supportive work environment for college staff that is open, respectful, safe, healthy, educational, and fun.

Initiatives:

Staff development days

Increase Salaries

Smoke-free workplace

Air-conditioning of public spaces

Continued updates in access and use of technology in the workplace

8. Goal: To create an innovative, supportive, and transparent environment for faculty, staff, students, and administrators transitioning from a single-sex to a coed institution.

Initiatives:

Conflict Resolution Teams

Training for Teaching in New Classroom Environment

Trainers to Facilitate the Transitions in Administration and Recruitment

Involving Students in Recruiting

Update Meetings and Shared Communication

Ready Dorms for Men Students

Add Physical Education Teams and Facilities
 
 

9. Goal: To celebrate and enhance the environmental sustainability, physical beauty and the small-town intimacy of our college and our village community.

Initiatives:

College Recycling Program

Campus "Green" Activities

New Wells College Logo

New Sign for College Lawn

New Signage for College Buildings

New Flower Landscaping and Design

Plaza with a Fountain

"Welcome to Wells" Banners on Lamp Posts

Town and Gown Activities

10. Goal: To establish a stronger financial base for the College in order to support immediate and long-range goals and initiatives.

Initiatives:

Increase enrollment by broadening national and international marketing and recruiting.

Increase enrollment by targeting specific groups well-suited for the location and mission

Begin a New Capital Campaign "Wells for the World"

Increase Alumni Giving

Increase Major Corporate Giving—Wells Fargo and American Express Especially

Increase Major Pre-Professional Offerings—Teacher Certification, Nursing, Engineering, Business,

Target and Enhance Special Niche Areas: Book Arts Center, Bachelor of Fine Arts, Summer Writers’ Workshops, Performing Arts.
 
 

To comment on the above draft by email, print out a response sheet to use as a guide.

Click HERE to get the Adobe version of the response sheet

Click HERE to get the HTML version of the response sheet
 
 

Complied by Carolyn Denard, Associate Dean of the College

10/12/04