Discovering (or Refining) Institutional Vision Through College Participation

This workshop focuses on the development of a college vision or the redevelopment or revision of a college vision. The presenter shares a method for determining college strengths and weaknesses from everyone at the college, affirming or refuting the collective wisdom through institutional research, leading the college to debate potential options for vision through facilitated department and all-college meetings, endorsement of new or refined vision by college and board; defining early goals, setting up measures for those goals, and ensuring that institutional planning and budgeting reflect the new or revised mission. This method is discussed in “Starting Again: The Brookhaven Success College,” Leadership Abstracts, Vol. 15, number 2, February 2002. The methodology has been in place at Brookhaven College for six years and is producing significant improvements. The workshop can focus on the methodology only, or it can include subsequent sessions to carry the college through the entire process. The outcome should be a new understanding of the important elements of vision and college collective engagement in vision; the development of a new or renewed vision for the college that is embraced by all of the college; and the development of goals and measures to support the new or renewed vision.

To find out more, email Ed Leach or call (480) 705-8200, x233.