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Progress Report:
March 21, 2003 Tifton Campus
Attendance: Anne Young, Brian Tankersley, Carol Spruill, Judy
Hibbs, Katy Stevenson, Louie Perry, Louise Hill, Mark Reiger, Mel
Garber, Mike Lacy, Patricia Smith, Rob Shewfelt and Tony Tyson
Mike Lacy welcomed everyone to the meeting and
thanked Anne for making the room arrangements.
Mike briefed those present on the concerns that
have been expressed on the Strategic Plan. The Advisory Council and the administration
have expressed concern that the planning process is proceeding too slowly
and that a plan is essential for support from our most-loyal supporters.
Faculty and staff indicate an unwillingness to engage in the process due primarily
to the widespread perception that the current plan did not make a difference
in the college. The administration is urging us to make sure that we gain
better support from the faculty and staff and that we must not move faster
than the buy-in can be achieved. The general conclusion is that we must speed
up to provide a plan to the administration and our supporters while we slow
down to elicit comments and gain support from the CAES personnel. Specific
suggestions were to publicize concrete accomplishments that have been implemented
in the current plan, adopt The Vision We Share 2.0 as the title of the upgrade
of the current plan, carefully word a series of email messages to the CAES
List-Serve, and try to emphasize any early success. Rob and Mike will be
responsible for engineering a marketing campaign for the plan.
Assistant Dean David Bridges stopped by as an
observer for a few minutes and expressed his support for the Task Force and
its task. Brian provided an update on the Visioning modeling committee of
which he will co-chair with Brahm Verma. Their first meeting will be in Athens
on April 1. They will be charged to provide three clearly distinct scenarios
for the College in 2010 and a roadmap to reach each destination.
Most of the rest of the meeting was devoted to a training session
by conducting a mock modeling session. Steps one (development of
critical success indicators), two(brainstorming) and three (convergence
into general concepts) were completed. All present indicated a much
better familiarity with the strategic modeling process that will
be used to intensively study each issue that is selected.
Brief presentations were made on the Mission and
Values. A survey will be conducted on a streamlined version of the Current
Mission Statement and possible additional Values. Each model will need to
be aligned with the Vision, Mission Statement and Values. Before adjournment
a request for the addition of a 16th issue to the issue survey
was approved when it was pointed out that no issue specifically mentions research.
The approved issue is
What criteria should be used to prioritize CAES
research programs?
The next meeting of the Task Force will be held
in Athens on April 25. The meeting was adjourned at 4:40.
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