To: The William Paterson University Community
From: Kathleen Waldron, President
Re: Board of Trustees Adopts Strategic Plan 2012-2022
Date: March 23, 2012
The Board of Trustees formally adopted the William Paterson University Strategic Plan 2012-2022 at its meeting on Monday, March 19, 2012, culminating a ten month collaborative process that included faculty, staff, and students at William Paterson. Click Here for Internal Access to the Plan. On behalf of the Strategic Planning Steering Committee, I am delighted that the Board has taken this important step that will guide our collective endeavors over the next ten years.
The Strategic Planning Steering Committee presented the Plan to the Board of Trustees after receiving input from the University community from feedback sessions in late January and February 2012, including town hall meetings, the Fall and Spring Faculty Meeting, and meetings of the Faculty Senate, Director's Council, students via the Student Government Association, and retreats with the Board. The Committee thanks the University community for playing such an important role in bringing forward issues of concern, all of which were thoughtfully discussed at the Committee meetings. The final document incorporates many of the comments and suggestions that were received from the various feedback sessions.
The Faculty Senate engaged in a series of discussion and feedback sessions, and ultimately endorsed the Plan. The 36-5 vote in favor of the Plan is an indication of the strength of support for this Plan, and I thank John Parras, chair of the Faculty Senate, for his leadership in guiding the Senate’s discussions, and the Senators who gave thoughtful consideration to the Plan and provided such important feedback.
I want to commend the work of the Steering Committee and the commitment they made to insuring that the process was deliberative, transparent, and comprehensive. Each member made a valuable contribution to the success of the project, and the University owes them a debt of gratitude for the time, effort, and good counsel they provided.
Now we turn to the implementation of the Plan. For each of the five overarching goals in the Strategic Plan, a team of faculty, staff, and students will lead the implementation and oversee progress toward the achievement of each goal. Each team will be led by a vice president and will be charged with crafting an implementation plan with recommended timetables, metrics and methods of assessment of the strategic goals. In addition, each team will provide minutes of its meetings and an annual report on the progress against the goal. It is expected that each team will utilize the existing councils, committees, standing committees and administrative and governance structures we have in place at the University today and form new groups if needed in a collaborative way with all parts of the campus community. Each team should complete its initial plan by the end of the Spring 2012 semester. Some meetings are already underway, others are being planned.
In addition to the five implementation teams, the University will form Committee 2022 with the specific responsibility of receiving the five annual reports of the implementation teams and communicating annually to the William Paterson University community on the progress of our strategic planning efforts. Committee 2022 will provide input to the President as to the progress of the University and recommendations and suggestions for improvement.
The five implementation teams, Committee 2022, and their proposed membership are listed below. Invitations have been extended to faculty, staff, and students to participate, and as membership becomes finalized, we will update the rosters accordingly.
IMPLEMENTATION PLAN TEAM MEMBERSHIP
TEAM ONE: Offer Academic Programs of the Highest Quality – Chair Edward Weil, Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, faculty, and representatives from the Academic Affairs Council
TEAM TWO: Achieve Student Success by Increasing Matriculation, Retention and Graduation – Chair Kristin Cohen, VP Enrollment Management and the Strategic Enrollment Management Committee
| Sandra Bembry | Director of Student Accounts | |
| Cindy Cohen | Associate Director, Athletics | |
| Kristin Cohen | Vice President, Enrollment Management | |
| Kim Daniel Robinson | Director, First-Year Experience | |
| Janet Davis Dukes | Executive Director, Academic Development Programs | |
| Francisco Diaz | Assistant Vice President for Campus Life | |
| Christine Diehl | Director, Marketing Communications | |
| Rebecca Fegeley | Assistant Director of Residence Education, Residence Life | |
| Pixie Ferris | Professor, Communication, College of Arts and Communication | |
| Colleen Fuller | Director, Undergraduate Admissions | |
| Jean Fuller-Stanley | Associate Dean, College of Science and Health | |
| Rosemarie Genco | Associate Vice President for Finance and Controller | |
| Martin Gritsch | Professor and Assistant to the Dean, Economics, Finance and Global Business, Cotsakos College of Business | |
| Stephanie Koprowski-McGowan | Director, Office of Educational Enrollment and Certification, College of Education | |
| Jonathan McCoy | Executive Director, Enrollment Management & Technology | |
| Kathleen Odell-Korgen | Professor and Department Chairperson, Sociology, College of Humanities and Social Science | |
| Donna Potacco | Director, Science Enrichment Center | |
| Sharon Rosengart | Director, Career Development and Advisement Center | |
| Julie Rosenthal | Assistant Professor, Elementary and Early Childhood Education, College of Education | |
| Kenneth Schneider | Director, Center for Student Services, Enrollment Management | |
| Nina Trelisky | Director, Registration Services | |
| Jeff Wakeman | Director, Campus Activities | |
| Robert Wolk (or Designee) | Special Collections & Archive, Cheng Library, Faculty Senate Council on Admission and Enrollment Management | |
| Jane Zeff | Director, Institutional Research and Assessment |
TEAM THREE: Provide Students with Exceptional Opportunities Beyond the Classroom – Chair John Martone, VP Student Development and committee to be determined
TEAM FOUR: Enhance the Sense of Community Throughout and Beyond the University – Chair Pamela Ferguson, VP Institutional Advancement and committee to be determined
TEAM FIVE: Be a Model of Outstanding and Affordable Public Higher Education –
Chair Steve Bolyai, VP Administration and Finance with representatives from the Campus Facilities Committee, the Campus Safety Committee, the ACUPCC Steering Committee, the Senate Budget and Planning Committee, the Banner User Group, the Learning Spaces Committee and the IT Advisory Committee
COMMITTEE 2022:
| Edward Weil, co-chair | Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs, Chair of Team 1 | |
| Steve Bolyai, co-chair | Vice President for Administration and Finance, Chair of Team 5 | |
| Kristin Cohen | Vice President for Enrollment Management, Chair of Team 2 | |
| John Martone | Vice President for Student Development, Chair of Team 3 | |
| Pamela Ferguson | Vice President for Institutional Advancement, Chair of Team 4 | |
| John Parras | Chair, Faculty Senate | |
| Kim Daniel-Robinson | Chair, Director's Council | |
| Undergraduate Student | ||
| Graduate Student | ||
| AFT Representative | Selected by AFT | |
| CWA Representative | Selected by CWA | |
| Academic Dean | Rotating every year | |
| Alumni Executive Council Representative | ||
| Stuart Goldstein | Associate Vice President for Marketing and Public Relations, staff to Committee 2022 |
