The College is near final adoption of a new Strategic Plan, developed throughout the past year by a group of faculty, staff, and students known as the “Dream Team.” Dean Hal Salwasser outlined some of the major initiatives being proposed as part of the new plan at the annual All-College Meeting in September:
    • Increase the numbers, quality, and diversity of the College’s student body
    • Adopt new degree programs in hydrology and integrated global sustainability
    • Seek gifts to create additional

endowed fellowships and scholarships
  • Diversify the College’s faculty, student body, and staff and improve the sense of community
    • Institute an internal competitive grants program
   • Embrace recreation and education on the McDonald-Dunn Forests
    • Seek gifts of forest properties to create a Discovery Forest Network around the state.
   • Continue and expand research partnerships
   • Strengthen communications andmarketing programs

      The Dean outlined a set of specific goals under the slogan “Four 10s by 2010 plus one.” “We need ten new endowed faculty chairs,” he told the College faculty and staff. “We need ten new endowed programs, ten new endowed fellowships for graduate students, and ten new endowed scholarships for undergrads.”
       What’s the “plus one”? If the College accomplishes all these goals by 2010, he said, “We’ll need to add a new wing onto Richardson Hall.”

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