During the 2006-2007 academic year, the Strategic Planning Committee (SPC) engaged in a series of discussions about the College’s identity and the experiences the College offers its students, the role of the College’s core curriculum in shaping the College’s identity, and better ways to offer students a premier liberal arts college experience within the context of Christian humanism and the Augustinian tradition.

The SPC’s purpose and mission is to examine ways to improve work processes and operations in the College; its membership includes the Dean of the College, all associate and assistant deans of the College, and all department chairs within the College.

The principal motivation behind these discussions was a desire to improve and, quite simply, to do what it is that we do better: the College is very good now, but what things could we as a College be doing better to offer all of our students a premier liberal arts college experience as articulated above?

In February 2007, the SPC reached consensus that the time had come to solicit the input from College faculty to continue and broaden this conversation. To accomplish the task of gathering faculty input, the SPC invited John Kelley, Ph.D., executive director of the Office of Planning, Training, and Institutional Research (OPTIR), to help design a focus group questionnaire to guide a series of focus group discussions involving faculty members from all ranks within the College.
 

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