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CAES Strategic Planning 2020
Final Survey Data Now Available
Visit the Minutes & Reports section of this site to see the results of our online, written, and face-to-face surveys.
The Report is in Sight — April 2012
Laura Perry Johnson
The CAES Strategic Planning Committee met for two days in April and is making progress sorting through the data and beginning to form goals that help give direction and focus to our college. Many people have asked what our report would look like. That has been hard to say up until this week. We have been committed to following the process and the data and letting that guide our actions. Presently, we have seven to eight broad goals with more specific strategies and action items under each one. You will have to wait a few more weeks to know what the actual goals are, so stay tuned!
What else will be in the final report? We will begin with an introduction that gives a brief history and background of our college. The committee has reviewed the mission, vision and core values of the organization and a slightly edited version will be presented. We will follow that with a section that tells us what CAES is doing well. Yes, we do have many areas where we can improve, but it was gratifying to find broad consensus on the things we do well and need to continually improve. We will follow with the goals we developed and the strategies and action items that will move us towards the goals.
Once the report is written and presented, will we be done? Definitely not! Then comes the challenging and exciting job of actually implementing the goals. At this point we will have to broaden our scope and reach out to many others in the college and beyond. Many of you have the expertise needed to implement some of the programs and goals, so we will definitely need your help. Please look for ways to be involved.
We have posted our raw data and summaries of this data to the CAES Strategic Planning web site ( http://caesplan.caes.uga.edu/minutes.html ). That way anyone who wants to can read the raw data for themselves. I warn you, it is hundreds and hundreds of pages long! It took the 22-member committee almost two months to read, analyze, re-analyze and summarize. (You may just want to read the summaries.)
The committee, comprised of your peers, has done an incredible job developing and implementing a process that will result in a plan we can all be proud of and that will lead us to be stronger and more focused. Jean Bertrand, my co-chair, and I applaud their efforts and would appreciate you letting them know that you appreciate their efforts on behalf of CAES. Here is a complete list of the committee: http://caesplan.caes.uga.edu/committee.html.
As always, we encourage you to stay tuned to the process and the website. Much more information will be forthcoming.
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