Strategic Planning Focus Group Notes

October 27, 12:00 p.m. Goodman and Johnson

Be More Responsive to Our Environment

Discussion prior to selection of objectives

1. More presence in K-12. More awareness of the current curriculum in schools.
2. Links with schools. Bring High school students to campus for various programs.
3. Upgrade equipment and physical space to meet expectations of incoming students.

Visual appearance of classroom

Chairs in the classroom should be the same color and style

Repair ceiling tiles

Update carpeting ? some of the carpeting is very old

Entrances to buildings should be cleaner

Bathrooms are dirty

Repair and wash windows

Explore funding to replace GMW's lost in budget

4. Responsiveness to out neighbors. Invite them to a meal on campus to thank them for being good neighbors to us.

Ask their opinion.

5. Many of the above listed items will cost money. We need to do more private fund raising.
6. Hire a fund raiser. Doug Hamilton does a good job in the area of communication but he cannot do the fund raising too. St. Cloud State, Mankato State, UND, NDSU, Concordia all have fund raisers.
7. Have a cleanup day once a month. They don't seem to be proud of their facility so treat it badly.
8. Education. More teachers are returning to add/change licenses. We could do more for this group. Do more to publicize what we are offering. Assess their needs.
9. Improve ties to business/industry/education/artistic community.
10. Develop alternative locations and means of delivery of courses. This has to be supported and incentives provided. Offer more workshop courses. Comment-NDSU offers course for $40.00 per credit. How do we compete when we insist on charging regular tuition prices?
11. Restate Objective #2.

Refocus use of MSU resources

Objectives that were not listed by the strategic planning committee that should have been included.

1. More interaction/awareness/presence between MSU community and regional K-12 community.

Measurable outcomes of Objective #1

More interaction/awareness/presence between MSU community and regional
K-12 community.

1. More presence in K-12. More awareness of the current curriculum in schools.
2. Links with schools. Bring high school students to campus for various programs. When high school students are visiting the planetarium and other university facilities, give them something to take away (MSU pencil, etc.)
3. More teachers are returning to add/change licenses. Do more for this group. Publicize what is being offered.
4. Improve ties to business/industry/education/artistic community.
5. Develop alternative locations and means of deliver of courses. Support this activity by providing incentives. Offer more workshop courses in "topical" areas.
6. Deliver workshops via television on current topics. Learn from competition (University of Mary, etc.)

Objective #2

Refocus and increase use of MSU's resources to improve visual appearance in the learning environment.

1. Upgrade equipment and physical space to meet expectations of incoming students.
2. Improve visual appearance of classrooms.

Chairs in the classroom should be the same color and style

Repair ceiling tiles

Update carpeting

Entrances to buildings should be cleaner

Keep bathrooms clean

Repair and wash windows

3. Increase resources by doing more private fund raising

Hire a fundraiser. (Who has fundraising as his/her sole duty?)

4. Have a cleanup day once per month. Students will be prouder of their facility so will treat it better.

Although we did not get to the vote on priorities of goals, there seemed to be an overwhelming consensus that #2 needs to be a high priority for MSU

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