In her Welcome Back address on 31 August 2011, President Gitenstein announced that this academic year the campus community will be engaging in a thoughtful review and update of our institutional strategic plan. At the same time, we will also be reviewing and updating our Facilities Master Plan. These concurrent and integrated planning processes will engage a wide range of stakeholder groups, both on and off campus, and will be conducted in keeping with the approach to planning that has benefitted us in the past; planning that is organic, responsive, inclusive, transparent, and results-oriented.
Last spring the Committee on Planning and Priorities (CPP) recommended to the President that TCNJ engage in such a strategic planning process. This recommendation was forwarded to the President’s Advisory Council which met in June and endorsed the proposal. In June President Gitenstein appointed Susan Bakewell-Sachs as Interim Provost and as Co-Chair of TCNJ Strategic Planning Taskforce and in July Morton Winston was appointed as faculty Co-Chair of the Strategic Planning Taskforce. In August Susan and Mort vetted several candidates for Strategic Planning consultants to help us to design and implement an efficient strategic planning process. We have engaged the services of Tim Fallon and Stacy Zawel of TSI Consulting Partners to guide us through the updated strategic planning process. The firm of Sasaki and Associates has also been engaged to carry out the update of the Facilities Master Plan.