Strategic Plan Status Updates
March - April 2023
Key Activities
- Pres. Lewis named Co-Chairs and Executive Council members
- Executive Council selected Steering Committee members
- Executive Council interviewed consulting groups to assist with planning
- Executive Council began gathering and reviewing relevant internal and external data
May - June 2023
Key Activities
- Executive Council selected and engaged Huron Consulting Group
- Kick-off meeting of the Steering Committee held
- President charged the Steering Committee
- Phase 0 completed with Huron
- Huron met biweekly with Executive Council
- Desired outcomes and timeline discussed
- Relevant data was obtained, analyzed, and shared
- Phase 1 commenced with Huron
- Huron began working on market scan and benchmarking analysis
- Huron attended June meeting of Steering Committee
- Huron held several small group interviews with Steering Committee members
- Surface themes began to emerge based on Executive Council and Steering Committee meetings
July 2023
Key Activities
- Executive Council worked with MarComm to develop a word mark, tagline, and website
- Huron asked Executive Council to begin identifying internal and external stakeholders to engage to contribute to the planning process
- Huron facilitated a strategic planning session with the Cabinet and Extended cabinet at the President’s Workshop
- At monthly Steering Committee meeting, Huron shared preliminary results of market scan and benchmarking analysis
August 2023
Key Activities
- Co-Chairs provided strategic planning updates at President's fall faculty meeting and per the request of the College of Health
- Executive Council finalized its list of external stakeholders and submitted it for the President's approval
- Executive Council created tentative schedule of internal engagements for September when Huron plans to make campus visits
- Executive Council worked with MarComm to finalize the website
September 2023 - October 2023
Key Activities
- Strategic Planning Website launched
- Completed engagements with various internal and external community members through 1:1 interviews, focus groups, workshops, and surveys
- Held monthly Steering Committee meetings to review market scan and benchmarking analysis, share feedback from engagements, and discuss potential mission, values, and priorities related to the same.