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Scenes from Faculty Senate

Joint Strategic Planning Committee

June 11, 2003

1:00 p.m. - 3:04 p.m.

Green Hall Conference Room

Attendance: Robert L. Carothers, M. Beverly Swan, Bob Beagle, Ann Morrissey, Abu Bakr, Tom Dougan, Judy Beckman, Mary Hollinshead, Faye Boudreaux-Bartels, Steve Grubman-Black, Michael Rice, Bill Rosen, Sheila Black Grubman, Kevin Lopes, Earle Degraphenried, Soledade Surrette, Linda Barrett

Minutes: The Minutes of the May 28, 2003 meeting were approved as distributed.

Capital Campaign and Feasibility Study

Bob Beagle outlined for the committee the phases in the development and conduct of a capital campaign and responded to questions about his presentation.

Discussion ensued with regard to the various aspects of fund-raising and on finding a strategy to ensure that the University's academic priorities are included in the fund-raising campaign.

Setting Priorities/Making Decisions: The Committee discussed the JSPC's role in setting priorities for the institution and their role in integrating the various aspects of planning. It was agreed that the committee had a role to play in assisting the Vice Presidents; the Provost and the deans in the integration of planning and the setting of priorities. The Committee decided that it would be useful to know how various units were responding to the goals within the President's Strategic Plan.

Beverly Swan reported that she was working with the deans on strategies to make better use of university resources, including the possible reorganization of colleges and/or departments. She agreed to share with the committee some of the preliminary ideas under consideration later in the summer. She indicated that she expected to have a detailed report on the strategies by November.

Ann Morrissey and Abu Bakr announced that they had sent surveys to all department heads asking them for information about planning within their individual units. This will serve as a first step in coordinating planning within the institution. They said that they would be able to provide the initial results of their surveys to the committee at its next meeting.

Follow-up: Ann Morrissey distributed flow-charts on the JSPC and on the process for developing and approving space allocation, which had been revised after the committee's earlier discussion. She asked that members of the committee review them prior to the next meeting.

Abu Bakr gave a report on his progress with regard to modifying the format for monitoring targets based on discussion at the previous meeting. He said that he expected to provide data that would serve as baseline for the various targets that are established in the Strategic Plan, as well as clarify the targets themselves at the next meeting.

The committee agreed to discuss strategies for communicating progress to the faculty and other members of the university community at their next meeting.

It was further agreed to discuss President Carothers' administrative reorganization plans at that time.

Next Meeting: The next meeting will be held on June 25 at 1:00 p.m.

The meeting was adjourned at 3:04 p.m.