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Timeline
Contact information
Additional resources
February 6, 2006
The ADGP Staff and Faculty have recently completed a consensus feedback process. The Ongoing Processes Combined Document articulates specific processes as well as the benchmarks or timelines for those processes.
January 9, 2006
As a result of the ongoing Strategic Planning Process, the ADGP department has recently completed a summary of our Planning Goals and Desired Changes. This document can be downloaded here.
November 30, 2005
Announcement from Dean Paul Burkhardt:
Dear ADGP community members,
As your elected ADGP Strategic Planning Taskforce, we are excited to continue our ADGP Strategic Planning processes together. We write this letter to not only describe our ongoing processes, but also to invite the full participation of the entire ADGP community. Our college-wide strategic planning process was initiated at the October Community Meeting. President Dan Garvey invited each unit (e.g., RDP, ADGP, etc.) to respond to the following questions by March 15:
- What are the three most important goals your group would like to see achieved over the next five years?
- What are the three most important changes you’d like to see in the College, outside of your particular area?
- What ongoing processes do/will you use to ensure the activities of your group are achieving your intended goals over the next five years?
President Garvey also laid out a set of underlying assumptions that should be considered in our answers to these questions:
- Goals and changes should increase the diversity of our community and promote increased access to the College.
- Goals and changes should support excellence in learning and scholarship so that we continue to be known for our academic programs
- Goals and changes should improve and support our physical and technological infrastructure to help create positive learning environments and healthy communities.
- Goals and changes must be financially sustainable; necessary enrollment growth must be attained; any “needs” must improve the financial sustainability of the College.
The ADGP community began our unit-level planning process at our retreat of November 1-2. We have attached a summary of the transcripts, flipcharts and conversations from the retreat. We invite you to review this summary of our common values, vision and process so far.
To continue the work begun at the retreat, the taskforce has identified a process and timeline for responding to the President’s three questions. Due to logistic constraints, much of the ongoing work must be done at the site or program level, in other words, through direct interaction with those people with whom you regularly work, regularly communicate. Thus, Task Force representatives will organize conversations and planning activities within their particular areas (e.g., MAP faculty, ADP faculty, Tucson staff, Admissions, ADGP students, mentors, advisors, alumni, etc.). Each group should plan to use time at their regular faculty and staff meetings to advance our planning process. For example, during the next ADP faculty meeting, the ADP faculty may discuss their responses to the planning survey due December 15 (see attached or below). In addition to enabling cross-program communications, the Moodle discussion areas and planning websites will allow students, mentors, advisors, and alumni to communicate, to participate and to see our progress (see addresses below). Students, mentors and advisors will also have opportunities at orientation and colloquium to inform planning processes. In addition, the Task Force will be creating mechanisms to integrate ADGP planning processes with RDP, etc. If you have questions about how to participate in these processes, please ask your appropriate Task Force representative (see list of email addresses below).
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Timeline
To complete our responses by March 15, the Task Force has developed the following general timeline for ADGP as a whole:
- December 5: 3:30-5:00 p.m. PC Chapel, RDP planning presentation from Cultural & Regional Studies, Environmental Studies, ADGP invited.
- December 15: All surveys (see below or attached) returned to generate initial categories for “three goals” and “three changes”; Task Force representatives have initiated ongoing conversations within their particular areas; ADGP community begins Moodle conversations
- December 16, 1-3 p.m.: Task Force meets to analyze all input, prioritize and construct three large categories describing the five-year goals and changes voiced by the ADGP community. Shared “three goals” and “three changes” with explanatory narrative distributed to ADGP community.
- January 2-31: Site and program level work to generate the specific “ongoing processes” your group will use to accomplish these “three goals”. Each site or program level group will develop a written description – or “how to list” – of the various ongoing activities that will achieve the general ADGP goals in their specific areas. Due to Task Force by February 1.
- February 6, 1-3 p.m.: Task Force meets to analyze all site / program level “how to lists” to integrate into a whole ADGP five-year strategic plan. Draft is complete and distributed to ADGP community for input by February 24.
- March 6: ADGP community returns all input on whole ADGP five-year strategic plan. Task Force revises accordingly.
- March 15: ADGP submits five-year strategic plan document to Advisory Council.
- April 15: Advisory Council planning group reviews and prioritizes unit-level plans and sends to President’s Council.
- May 1: President’s Council generates 2 page white paper.
- Note: The ADGP Task Force has requested that ADGP representatives on the Advisory and President’s Councils assure that the processes of integration and synthesis in March and April include authentic Prescott College Community input.
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The Task Force believes that it is important for all ADGP community members to participate fully in these planning processes and we are hereby inviting and encouraging each of you to do so. We have attached a brief survey designed for two purposes. First, we want the input of all ADGP community members on key questions first identified at the retreat. Second, we need all ADGP community members to express their particular priorities as we continue the process of creating the five-year ADGP strategic plan.
The Task Force appreciates your participation in helping to shape our common futures as members of the ADGP community.
Sincerely,
The ADGP Planning Task Force, adgpstf@prescott.edu
Christina Lawson, MAP Tucson Faculty, clawson@prescott.edu
Rick Medrick, MAP / PhD Prescott Faculty, rmedrick@olts-bt.com
Debbi Wilson, ADGP Prescott Staff, dwilson@prescott.edu
Frank Cardamone , ADGP Prescott Staff, fcardamone@prescott.edu
Jerri Brown, ADGP Prescott Staff, jbrown1@prescott.edu
Terril Shorb, ADP Prescott Faculty, tshorb@prescott.edu
Tom Potter, ADP Tucson Faculty, tpotter@prescott.edu
Esther Almazan, ADGP Tucson Staff, ealmazan@prescott.edu
Ann-Marie Benz, ADGP Student, AMHeins@PrescottCreeks.org
Kaia Lael, ADGP Student, combatfaerie@riseup.net
Amara Mitchell, ADGP Tucson Staff, amaramitchell@prescott.edu
Darrell Burrell, ADGP Alumni, dnburrell@excite.com
Darcy Riddell, ADGP Graduate Advisor, darcy@hollyhockleadership.org
Robert Widen, ADGP Graduate Advisor, rwidenco@mfire.com
Additional Resources
Prescott College Strategic Planning Homepage
ADGP Fall Retreat Agenda
ADGP Fall Retreat Session Summaries
Dean Burkhardt's Powerpoint Presentation
Strategic Planning Discussion Forums
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