October+29,+2009

Minutes

To Do Gather info from futurists, perhaps in the form of readings Use resources of the NAIS to supplement these readings Bring together the committee in a Retreat Have representation from all groups - alums, students, faculty - all divisions, athletics, Gather data/ brainstorm ideas from large groups - diverse populations Take ideas/ thought capital and send this to the working groups for processing, revision, …etc. Divide into subgroups based on topics filtered through the main group… then a few authors can write the plan

Bob Walker - let's look at how our teachers and students' days work. The stimulus for the retreat would be a better understanding for how we can make their days better. Bob's team at work went out and interviewed people to stimulate ideas of how people started their day… those ideas then were the stimulus for new solutions. They started with a dinner of 30 people to

Bill Oglesby: How does the community feel about the school - non-W families, neighbors, community partners How do students and parents experience the school How do colleges experience our school?

Bill C. How do we get started? To what extent do we need to expend a lot of energy on non-W constituencies…..

Bob W - we do need to understand those who don't even consider a W as an option, why not ??? Then we can better serve all…. Our goal is really to better serve our customers… we want to be sure that we know what their issues and concerns are and why they made the decisions that they make every day…

Clay's summary
 * 1) Some kick-off event
 * 2) Some market research activity
 * 3) Some group of people to process the information -
 * 4) When - Jan/Feb?? Maybe a dinner to kick-off the plan - research day - reporting day - Compressed plan??
 * 5) Committee then chews on the data
 * 6) Goal is to collect data late spring
 * 7) Draft document in early fall
 * 8) Be ready for winter visit of 2010
 * 9) Possible timeframe of November 2008 to November 2009
 * 10) Jere and Clay to meet to work on logistics
 * 11) Who should be in the group?
 * 12) What are the good readings that we need to explore before we start meeting?

Who should we interview: Brand new teacher 30 year old male teacher Someone who didn't even apply Single parent who chose not to come Family of 2 in Marietta who chose not to come Single parent here Family here in the middle income Coach Wealthy family Graduates Teacher nearing retirement Goal is to stretch our thinking to many different edges of the population

Books: 10 Faces of Innovation A whole New Mind - Daniel Pink Take 8 books, have two people to read and present the most germane points the group, with the emphasis on the ideas Who should be on the committee: Members of this committee. ( Jere) let's select a young faculty member vs. Tim Irwin. Jere stated - SACS accreditation review in 2010-2011, and so falls the 60th anniversary. Andrew - What's our objective? What do we want the new plan to look like? Let's be sure that we know how we're going to get this into a plan….. old plan had 5 pillars and associated goals and objectives, let’s be sure that we have these same kinds of goals so we can check off progress…Let's be sure that we can subdivide the work on the back end so it can get done…. Can we be sure we can have a report card tool that we can use to check our progress and a goal setting tool?