The Action Plan offered here is for guidance only. Following text will suggest an Action Plan reaching several years into the future and a plan of immediate action. It will prove that, if CU-Colorado Springs is to position itself to meet the demands of its potential program and enrollment growth, it must move quickly. After all, delays at the beginning show up big time at the end of a schedule. In campus master planning, there is an orderly progression of steps.
Information comes first.
Planning responds to information. If that simple formula is reversed, the quality of planning choices is doomed. This book is an effort to assemble and overview the knowledge now available. Preparation of a time schedule forces one to consider the scope of the task and to place its various steps in a logical and achievable sequence. And, to properly locate and design the needed facilities, the campus master plan must be in place.