Strategic Planning

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During 2001, CIC undertook a strategic planning process to determine future directions for the organization. Over 20 roundtable discussions were held on member campuses between March and October 2001. Presidents, chief academic officers, and CIC board members were among the major constituent groups participating. Individuals from over 200 member and non-member institutions contributed to the discussions.

Following an endorsement of the plan by CIC's Board of Directors, a final report, Strategic Planning Initiative: Report to Membership was published in January 2002. The report is divided into three sections. The first section describes the current challenges for private institutions, as revealed through the roundtable discussions, for which there was considerable agreement. The second section looks at both current CIC programs as well as possible new ones, and frames the issue in terms of emphases--that is, whether CIC should devote greater or lesser attention to particular types of programs and campus constituencies as CIC addresses these challenges. The final section of the paper discusses organizational issues.

Click here to view the full Strategic Planning Initiative: Report to the Membership in PDF format. This is a PDF Document. In order to read it, you must have the Adobe Acrobat Reader, available for free download from the Adobe Web site.

Click here to view an article in the Winter/Spring 2002 issue of the Independent that reports on the results of the strategic planning process.