An update on strategic planning
Dear William & 玛丽 Community:
We write to provide a brief update on the College’s strategic planning activities¬and to encourage your participation in this process.
The six subcommittees formed around the “grand challenges” defined last year have been actively meeting, gathering data, developing metrics for assessing progress on goals and objectives, and working with the appropriate campus groups to carry out the implementation steps in the plan for this year. For example, the group focusing on the overarching grand challenge of being a leader among liberal arts universities is developing principles for making decisions on the action steps needed to accomplish its important goals. With College goals of increasing by 25% our external research funding and providing greater support to graduate students, the subcommittee on a new financial model has been working with the key stakeholders to develop strategies for reaching them. Overall, the plan has 110 implementation steps for this academic year, some large and some small, which collectively represent a significant agenda for moving the College forward.
The strategic planning process has sought to be broadly inclusive and on its various committees sit faculty, students, staff, administrators, members of the Board of Visitors and the W&M Foundation Board, and alumni. We are a community with many parts and the strategic plan covers many of our aspirations. So, broad participation is needed. We invite your participation in the College’s strategic planning process, which is described at www.wm.edu/strategicplanning There are many ways to contribute to the ongoing discussion:
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