Strategic Planning Committee Minutes, March 4, 2002

Strategic Planning (SPC) Committee Minutes
March 4, 2002

MEMBERS PRESENT:Bruce Morton, Jon Wraith, Mary Noll, Betsey Centa, Bill Brown, Mark Sheehan, John Carlsten, Kay Chafey.

MEMBERS ABSENT: Jaynee Groseth, Greg Johnson, Michelle McLendon.

OTHERS PRESENT: Kathy Attebury, Ben Sharp.

The meeting was convened at 3:00 PM by Chair Bruce Morton.

ANNOUNCEMENTS.

• There will be no meetings on March 8, 11, or 15.
  
• The next SPC meeting is scheduled for Monday, March 18, at 3:00 PM, in the Bradley Conference Room (Wilson Hall).
  
• Mark Sheehan will discuss IT issues with the committee on March 22.
  
• Provost Dave Dooley has been rescheduled to meet with the committee April 12.
  
• The IT task force report has been released.

• The most immediate task of SPC is to develop a short list of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats that will help guide UPBAC's decisions for FY 03.
  
• Although a SWOT analysis is a way to organize thinking, it doesn't necessarily lead to strategic planning. However, it's a place for this committee to begin working.

After discussion, the committee agreed upon the following SWOT's. Bruce will organize, elaborate where necessary, and send the draft out to the committee for editing. Strengths

• Sense of community
  
• Land grant mission
  
• Location
  
• Areas of excellence in teaching and research

• Need for strategic focus
  
• Recruitment/Retention
  
• Infrastructure
  
• Level of investment in employees

• Exploit location (12 x) <-> research agenda
  
• Economic development partnerships
  
• Student recruitment
  
• (Others on this list that were at the bottom)
  
• Distributive learning environments - not necessarily distance learning
  
• Mobilize constituents

• Unstable policy, planning and fiscal environment,
  • Especially loss of IDC's
  
  
• Tuition/scholarships
  
• Competition and inefficiency among MSU campuses
  
• (Others on this list that were at the bottom)
  • Image