Here are a couple more answers to questions you’re raising about CASL’s strategic planning.
What’s the final product? What constitutes a strategic plan?
This question has three answers – none of which can stand without the others. The first product is an educated, connected, and engaged CASL Community, investing together in our individual and collective success. Second, we will make many changes as we go, putting our inspiration and clarity to good use. Finally, we will end this process with a document that articulates our priorities and strategies for getting there for the next 5-10 years. We need to develop and test our ideas in the ways that can only happen by putting them in writing, and we need to be able to share that vision with others. It is my goal that we have that document complete during the 2015/2016 academic year.
Are other colleges doing this too?
At present, CASL is taking the lead at UMD in engaging in this kind of process. This arises from my desire, as a new Dean, to be in deep collaboration with the CASL community to ensure that our future is all we want it to be. This process is also being supported by CASL’s external Advisory Board. Historically, this group of alumni, donors, and industry leaders has held a more ceremonial function, distant from the day-to-day life of the College. But they, too, are aware that we need to change. These are former students who have risen through the ranks in their companies, and who know the skills that industry is looking for. But they don’t know how we need to evolve to meet these needs; rather they are here to support us in bringing our best thinking together to find our way. I am confident that our efforts will spill over to the other UMD colleges in direct and indirect ways, and I am excited by our potential to lead the way into this new territory.
Join the conversation. The CASL Strategic Planning survey is open through Wednesday, December 3, 2014.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CASLCommSPSurveyB
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