We Need You: Strategic Plan Draft Launch and Review
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to share with you a draft plan that outlines our strategic imperatives for the coming years. Please visit the Strategic Planning website to see the full text. Now we need your thoughtful input to finalize the plan.
I look forward to seeing you in Council Chamber at 11 a.m. (or via Zoom) this morning, where we will officially “launch” this next stage of the process. Here’s the Zoom link: https://lclark-edu.zoom.us/j/91215692796
On the website you will find a calendar of additional events where you can provide feedback on the draft. These will include events on all three campuses for faculty and staff (Sept. 16 and 17), Administrative Assembly on Sept. 18, and a series of small-group dialogues. You may also provide feedback by emailing strategicplan@lclark.edu..
This plan is part of a dynamic and iterative process that will set a future direction for us. Our plan outlines where we will invest additional resources in the coming years and where we must come together in more collaborative ways.
This document of imperatives is not an operational plan, so you won’t see everything we do reflected. But, of course, we will keep doing well those things that are important and at the core of our mission.
Also on the website, if you wish to engage more deeply, you may find a library of the twenty-eight Big Ideas proposals we received at the end of May. When combined with our work from last year, these Big Ideas documents were invaluable in helping the Executive Council construct the draft strategic imperatives. We listened and extracted themes from what we heard and read. We share the proposals now in the interest of transparency and as evidence of common and overlapping themes that emerged for Executive Council during review this summer. The good work represented in these proposals is inspiring and beneficial, and we’ll return to them and the Big Ideas process later in the fall.
Our strategic planning efforts are more important than ever. In the current higher education landscape and in our own budget context, we need to be focusing on big ideas, our distinctiveness, and strategy. We must harness our collective energy and resources toward developing and implementing a plan that doubles down on the qualities of Lewis & Clark that are most distinctive and special.
The draft plan now needs all of your input before a final version is crafted and shared with the Board of Trustees for approval in October.
Sincerely,
Robin H. Holmes-Sullivan
President
