The purpose of the planning process is to involve the university community in setting directions for the future which support the university strategic plan . The strategic plan has a vision and mission statement. To support the mission there are eight goals. Further, each goal has several objectives, for a total of about forty objectives.
Strategic planning is about setting directions.
To start the planning process, please refer to the planning overview and schedule , which suggests that planning be strategic, focusing on a few areas that are priorities over the next four years. It is important to follow the schedule to permit the timely completion of the planning and budgeting process. This will enable you to make changes to the text of last year's plan, and incorporate the revised text in your new plan. This will enable you to create and submit entirely new entries to be incorporated into your new plan. This will call up the record you need from the database.