The meeting was convened at Windsor House at 5:40 p.m. The faculty in attendance included: R. Osgood, J. Brand, J. Swartz, P. Smith, D. Caulkins, W. Ferguson, B. Grey, K. Kamp, T. Moore, B. Voyles. The Board members in attendance included: R. Allen, N. Brue, W. Lazier, C. Little, F. Little, P. Sebring.
The President explained that this meeting was called to bring the Board up-to-date on a series of special meetings of the Executive Council in follow-up to their meeting with consultant Jim Collins in October, 2000. He noted that, according to the Faculty Handbook, the Executive Council is the faculty body charged with long-range academic planning, but the regular meeting agenda of the Council is so taken up with day-to-day business that it was determined that long-range planning needed to be undertaken as special meetings of the Council. As an overview, he noted that these special meetings had been devoted to further articulation of the Collins construct in light of long-range academic issues. He stated that over the course of the year, some members of the campus community have begun to develop a new mission statement. He then mentioned that the Council had produced a memorandum for the Board members attending this meeting which broadly reflected the essence of Council thinking at this time and B. Grey would lead further discussion which would be focused on that document.
B. Grey opened the discussion which focused on the following issues.
1. Council's representation of things the College does exceptionally well and which the faculty are passionate about:
2. Board member's desire to have the Council differentiate between core values (what), strategies (how), and tactics.
3. Council's intention to follow a process
for long-range academic planning which provides for the participation
of the full faculty.