Strategic Engagement

Strategic Engagement

Communication after Engagement

Overall Participation

• 152 Staff Members Participated in Sessions– 115 out of 138 Full Time Staff or about 83%

• 115 Faculty Members Participated in Sessions– 53 out of 63 Full Time Faculty Members or about 84%

• 31 Staff Members were team leaders

• 25 Faculty Members were team leaders

Initial Feedback

• The aspects of strategic planning that I have been involved in at Centenary College have been effective. – 65% of respondents agreed or strongly agreed.

Initial Feedback

• The presentation given provided me with a greater understanding of this aspect of the star. – 75% of respondents agreed or strongly agreed.

• The team sessions provided me with the opportunity to help shape the strategic vision of the college. – 82% of respondents agreed or strongly agreed.

Process

• On January 17, 18, and 19th most of the college faculty and staff came together to work in groups of five on the strategic plan that the Executive Staff had created.

• The recommendations were collected from each group and carefully compiled.

• Executive Staff carefully examined all contributions and decided which contributions should alter the strategic plan.

• Through significant debate, Executive Staff reached a consensus on the strategic plan.

Overall ChangesGoals

• One new goal was added.

• One goal was eliminated and the initiatives combined with another goal.

• Two strategic goals were kept the same.

Overall ChangesInitiatives

• Six new initiatives were added.

• Fifteen out of twenty initiatives were adopted from the group work.

• Three out of twenty had slight language modification.

• One initiative was deleted.

• One out of twenty initiatives remained the same.

Strategic Goal 1:

New: Each Centenary student engages in and practices true learning (Eruditio Vera)

• Deleted Goal 5: Each Centenary student engages in and practices reflective inquiry.

• Initiatives are combined in True Learning.

Leader: Mike CorsoTeam Members: Carol Yoshimine, Lynn Taylor,

Kathy Turrisi, Judith Melbairde

Strategic Initiative 1.1

• ORIGINAL: Enhance the partnership between students and the staff, alumni, and faculty in the life of the Centenary and global community to create life changing experiences.

• NEW: Create life-changing experiences through collaboration between students, the global community and Centenary faculty, staff, and alumni.

Leader: Carolyn Coulson-GrigsbyTeam Members: Octavia Brown, Tom Brunner, Kathleen

Boody, Beverly Slayton

Strategic Initiative 1.2:

• ORGINAL: Tie community service and employment to curriculum, citizenship, and giving back to create a powerful learning and developmental experience.

• NEW: Integrate community service and civic responsibility with the curriculum and co-curriculum to create a powerful learning and developmental experience through the practice of reflective inquiry.

Leader: Melissa BarryTeam Members: Stephanie Bolan, John Autore, Jean

Robert, Dean Bethea


• ORIGINAL: Create authentic assignments that demonstrate competency in our students.

• NEW: Create intellectually supportive and safe curricular and co-curricular environments that allow students to engage in problem-based learning and to demonstrate growth.

Leader: Carolyn Coulson-Grigsby

Team Members: Octavia Brown, Tom Brunner, Kathleen Boody, Beverly Slayton


• ORIGINAL: Continue to develop, support and assess a highly effective staff, faculty, and senior administration that can implement very effective pedagogy and service, and embrace continuous improvement.

• NEW: Support, develop, and assess a highly effective staff, faculty, and senior administration that can engage all students in critical thinking, inquiry learning, problem-solving skills and lifelong learning.

Leader: Melissa BarryTeam Members: Stephanie Bolan, John Autore, Jean

Robert, Dean Bethea


• ORIGINAL: Enhance developmentally-appropriate curriculum with broad faculty input that is deliverable and customizable in multiple ways.

• Consensus from groups was to leave this one as originally proposed.


• NEW: Through intentional experiences, engage all students in understanding themselves, their contexts and perceptions to apply this knowledge from various sources to real world challenges.

Leader: Chris Adamo

Team Members: Sparky, Gary Caal, Kim Carswell, Christopher Linne

Strategic Goal 2:

• ORIGINAL: Each Centenary student engages in and practices service leadership.

• NEW: Each Centenary student engages in and practices service leadership and team building.

Leader: Ken Autore

Team Members: Suzanne Cubberly, Roxanne Thompson, Sally Cleary, Diane Brooks


• ORIGINAL: Provide service-learning experiences supportive of the College’s mission that connect students with their communities.

NEW: Provide service-leadership and team building experiences supportive of the college’s mission that connect students with local and global communities.

Leader: Barbara Hetzel

Team Members: Paul Kaser, Shane Fitzpatrick, Shannon Jonas, Michelle Gustavson


• ORIGINAL: Foster a commitment to informed and engaged participation in global concerns.

• NEW: Intentionally integrate academic programs with service leadership experiences.

Leader: Ray Frey

Team Members: Lauretta Farrell, Maryann Fegan, Ray Flash, Beth Freeman


• ORIGINAL: Foster a commitment and sense of responsibility to purposeful volunteerism consistent with the College’s history and mission.

• NEW: Foster a life-long commitment and sense of responsibility to purposeful volunteerism and humanitarian concerns consistent with the college’s history and mission.

Leader: Ray Frey

Team Members: Lauretta Farrell, Maryann Fegan, Ray Flash, Beth Freeman


• ORIGINAL: Student is able to recognize multiple meanings of leadership and practice accordingly so that they can understand where they best serve.

• NEW: Provide students with opportunities to engage in the multiple facets of leadership in order to recognize and understand where and how they can best serve.

Leader: Amy D'Olivo

Team Members: Candace Chase, Ginny Elsasser, Andy DeStephano, Kathy Eastman


• NEW: Create an atmosphere for students to initiate and take ownership of service leadership opportunities.

Leader: Norm Cetuk

Team Members: Mike Corso, Tish Carpenter, Nicole Comerro

Strategic Goal 3:

• ORIGINAL: Each Centenary Student engages in and practices a values-centered life.



• ORIGINAL: Develop a student/faculty culture that continually challenges and supports each other in order to meet a values-centered life.

• NEW: Develop a student/faculty culture that continually challenges and encourages all to live a values-centered life.

Leader: Dean Bethea

Team Members: John Autore, Dolores Bosco, Carol Bodrogi


• ORIGINAL: Develop, support and assess a welcoming staff that practices and teaches the College’s shared values.

• NEW: Develop, support, and assess a welcoming college community that practices and teaches the College’s shared values.

Leader: Tish Carpenter

Team Members: David Spencer, Theresa Fleming, Angela Elliott, Robert Frail


• ORIGINAL: Develop a student body that knows how to gather and use information about their rights in order to civilly engage with members of any organization.

• NEW: Develop a student body that knows how to gather and use information about their rights and responsibilities in order to civilly engage with members of any organization.

Leader: Tish CarpenterTeam Members: David Spencer, Theresa Fleming, Angela

Elliott, Robert Frail


• NEW: Develop a student body that applies their shared values to their personal and professional interactions.

Leader: Glenna Warren

Team Members: Donna Williams, David Sandri, William Radem, Rosa Osario


• NEW: Create a welcoming environment which leads to a more diverse student body and that embraces differences of religion, culture, race, socio-economic status, age, and disability.

Leader: Bryon Grigsby (substitute)

Team Members: Josh Huber, Candace Halo, Chris Selena, Mim Gulick

Strategic Goal 4:

• Each Centenary student engages in and practices global citizenship.



• ORIGINAL: Develop a sense of global citizenship in the curriculum and the co-curriculum that is modeled through the faculty and staff.

NEW: Develop global citizenship in the curriculum and co-curriculum that is modeled through the faculty and staff.

Leader: Jen Novak

Team Members: Ruth Ann Mueller, Peter Mathews, Matt Mendres


• ORIGINAL: Create opportunities for students to partake of a life-changing international experience.

• NEW: Create opportunities for students to partake in transformative international experiences.

Leader: Octavia Brown

Team Members: Kerry Barnett, Frank Bucci, Chris Adamo, Carol Bodrogi


• ORIGINAL: Develop inter-cultural competencies so they can move across boundaries and into unfamiliar territory to see the world from multiple perspectives

• NEW: Develop the intercultural skills and competencies to function autonomously and with sensitivity in a foreign culture.

Leader: Kyle Baillie

Team Members: Marianne Raimond, Joe Repice, John Holt

Old Strategic Goal 5Each Centenary student practices reflective inquiry.

• Strategic Initiative 5.1: Through intentional experiences, engage all students in understanding their own perceptions and historical perspectives.

• Strategic Initiative 5.2: Create opportunities for students to continually analyze and integrate what role they played in a particular experience.

• Strategic Initiative 5.3: Develop ways for students to apply the knowledge they have learned about themselves and others in authentic, real world experiences.

• Strategic Initiative 5.4: Intentionally integrate all the experience and opportunities both curricular and co-curricular that lead students to developmentally progress toward the practice of reflective inquiry.

Leader: Mike CorsoTeam Members: Carol Yoshimine, Lynn Taylor, Kathy Turrisi, Judith

Melbairde

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Strategic Goal 5:

• NEW: Each Centenary student engages in a physical environment that is conducive to learning.

Leader: John Simone

Team Members: Maureen Mastro, Ginny Elsasser, Denise Keller, Ray Frey


• NEW: Provide space for social interaction, leadership, reflectivity, and team work

Leader: John Simone



• NEW: Provide an easily accessible study and studio spaces for collaborative learning.

Leader: John Simone



• NEW: Provide secure, comfortable living and learning spaces

Leader: John Simone


Next Steps

• A Situation Analysis needs to be compiled that demonstrates the trends higher education that will face over the next six years and how this plan responds to those trends.

• A series of focus groups need to be done with prospective students, current students and alumni for appropriate fit.

• A Metric Team will be created to articulate how we will measure the strategic plan.

• A Financial Planning Model has been built to model what we need to do to fund the goals and initiatives.

Next Steps

• Centenary College’s graphic arts students are working on an emblem that will best explain the vision for the strategic plan.

• After the students have completed the emblem, we will allow the entire college community to vote on which one they like best.

• Thanks to Gary Caal and all the hard work he is doing with his students to meet this goal.

Strategic Plan in Action

• Through careful financial modeling and trend analysis, the President with Executive Staff will identify which initiatives will be commissioned, how they will be measured, and what resources will be needed.

• An Executive Staff member will own the initiative and work with the VP of Strategic Implementation to create a project charter and project plan for execution.

• Every two years, the community will review the accomplishments over the past two years and examine the next two years in order to make adjustments as needed.

Strategic Plan, 2006-2012

Engages in and Practices Service Leadership and Teambuilding

Engages in and Practices a

Values-Centered Life

Engages in and Practices Global

Citizenship

Engages in and Practices True

Learning(Eruditio Vera)

Each Centenary

Student

Engages in a physical environment that is conducive to learning.

Strategic Engagement

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