The Strategic Planning Context:

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• The Strategic Planning Context
• Assumptions and Expectations

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Differences Time Frame
Business Model

• 2 to 3 years

College Model

• 5 years or more

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The Planning Context Weaknesses

• Tuition costs
• Tuition dependence
• Geography
• Weather

• Size
• Social life
• Cultural homogeneity
• Lack of connection with traditions

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The Planning Context Opportunities

• Womens College Coalition
• Liberal arts preparation
• Alumnae
• Outreach

• Population growth
• Womens athletics
• Social values
• Community service

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The Planning Context Challenges

• Competition ? diversity ? technology ?
  learner-focus ? lower-cost ? more choices
  ? academic ? social

• Decline in single-sex colleges
• Decline in funding
• Increasing financial aid
• Increasing student independence
• Changing technology

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Expectations for the College

• Mission-driven center of higher education for
  women
• A pioneer in womens education, honoring a
  tradition of leadership
• Strengthen Catholic identity

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Expectations for the College

• Increase diversity of faculty, staff, students

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Expectations for the College

• Build a learning community committed to the
  holistic growth of students

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Expectations for the College

• Develop an integrated curriculum in general
  education
• Enhance strengths of academic departments
• Educate for a multi-cultural world

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Expectations for the College

• Strengthen commitment to social justice and
  service

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Assumptions

• Remain a Catholic womens college
• Commitment to liberal arts
• Achieve a sustainable enrollment
• Focus traditional, undergraduate, residential
• Increase percentage of students living on campus

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Assumptions

• Fiscal stability
• Increase endowment
• Increase unrestricted gifts
• Fund the facilities master plan