Details on committee membership and the charge are found in Part I of this document. The strategic plan will drive, directly or indirectly, all of the college's processes including the budget, faculty and staff hires, curriculum development, and all other areas of our college's operations. They are few in number but address every major area of the college's mission, vision, and core value statements. Objectives are concrete goals that we will set for ourselves in order to move forward in ways that are consistent with our strategic directions . The objectives give structure to each of the strategic directions, suggesting ways of making our plan operational.
Tactics are statements with clear operational import .
They spell out something to do, and they do so in a way that allows unambiguous determination later as to whether we have done it or not. All tactics are be associated with the resources needed to achieve them, i.e., they are articulated with UNM-Valencia's Budget Process, and with space, technologies, and other human, financial and physical resources needed to implement the tactics. The Strategic Planning Committee met on nine occasions in 2000 from July 18 th through December 8 th .