New tech fee proposal from Math to get external disk drives for 3 MACs in lab and card-key lock system. Strategic planning needs to continue. Disciplines examine stated goals and see where they can best position themselves in defining efforts for the year consistent with University's and School's larger plan. Chair or faculty rep. School SP subcommittee collates suggestions, makes modified plan.
School discusses modified plan.
Herein followed a long discussion of the purposes of strategic planning. The major point of misunderstanding seemed to be that individuals or individual programs have veto power over the goals of other programs or over the general decisions that must be made by administrators. The strategic plan sets the general direction of university goals and actions for a given year, in addition to governing the approval of expenditures outside of ordinary budgets. This means that initiatives from any program must serve the agreed-upon strategic planning principles. When a unit endorses a plan, it is endorsing the general guiding principles, even though faculty might individually quibble with another program's goals.