Members put forth questions and discussed their ideas and suggestions on how to proceed with network strategic planning. Notes from that discussion are attached as an addendum to these minutes. Perhaps it would be beneficial to hold a half day meeting where members could go through the outline section by section to flesh it out. Vision of the network from the perspective of the users is very different. Incoming generations of students more demanding and sophisticated.
Buildings are a major problem.
We must give more attention to the periphery of the network. Colleges are generating ideas. We need to work on specifics and planning. There is ever increasing pressure for accountability because of tight budgets. Next 10 years we must carefully justify expenses.