How should Mac look in 10 years?
That’s the challenge the college’s Strategic Planning Committee began grappling with early in 2013. Last month the campus community reviewed the committee’s findings: a strategic plan that will guide Macalester for the next decade. (Visit macalester. edu/strategicplansummary)
AMONG THE PRIORITIES IDENTIFIED:
- Reinforce Macalester’s distinctive excellence in internationalism
- Make entrepreneurship—social and commercial—an area of strength
- Become a leader in offering issuefocused academic programs
- Strengthen the connections between a liberal arts education and vocation by making career paths more obvious and accessible
- Increase diversity within our student body, faculty, and staff
- Become a leader in using technology to broaden our reach
- Create a culture in which strategic thinking and careful, timely decision-making are the norm
- Build a sustainable financial model
- Create the institutional will to stop doing some things we do now, while recognizing that every program has some value and support
- Move from a model of divided governance to a model of truly shared governance to facilitate informed, strategic decision-making
November 6 2014
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