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President Corrigan's ViewPoint

ViewPoint by President Corrigan is published in First Monday for the faculty and staff at SFSU on the first Monday of the month during the fall and spring semesters by the Public Affairs and Publications offices. EXT 8-1665. pubcom@sfsu.edu


December 3, 2001

We are inviting you to participate in a process that will help determine the future of San Francisco State University: the “second wave” of strategic planning that we will, for now, call “CUSP II.” As a campus, we want to build on the successes and recommendations of the CUSP process and our recent WASC review and undertake the important process of shaping - as a community - the San Francisco State of the 21st century.

If this new phase of our ongoing strategic planning is to be as successful and collaborative as the first, we will need to enlist the participation of a wide range of faculty, staff, students and administrators. We realize that such important work will demand much of people who are already deeply involved with teaching, scholarship and service and their already-full work lives here, but we want you all to know that active participation in a process so critical to the future of our campus will be recognized as service of the highest priority. We seek your expertise, your vision, and your involvement.

Our first step is to establish a steering committee that will begin to develop a process and priorities for CUSP II. As we saw with CUSP, this committee is crucial to the success of our endeavors. Once again, we are seeking to build a broadly representative group whose members are diverse in their perspectives but united in their concern for the University’s future. We ask that you consider nominating yourself or others and, at the same time, provide a brief statement (no more than a short paragraph) as to why you (or your nominee) want to be part of this process; what you would like to contribute; and what you see as some of the key issues in strategic planning.

All nominations will be reviewed jointly by the Senate Executive Committee and the President’s Cabinet. Our efforts will be directed at establishing from the pool of nominees a group that offers not only a range of expertise, but also represents both junior and senior members of the campus and is able to take a University-wide view, helping to forge a vision of the University’s future that is broad and inclusive.

Since we are both building on and continuing CUSP’s work, we anticipate that the steering committee will begin by undertaking a thorough scan of CUSP’s previous work, including the CUSP recommendations, and by reviewing the recent WASC recommendations.

We envision that, in addition to the steering committee, a number of working groups or task forces will also be needed, so we encourage all of you to consider ways in which you might participate in a process that is both critical to the future of our campus and, at the same time, represents the best of what we do - shared governance and collegial interaction. We want to emphasize that all of you who wish to participate will be involved in some way. Shaping the future of our University - including the setting of academic priorities - must include us all.

So that the steering committee will be in place by the start of the Spring 2002 semester, we have set Friday, Dec. 14, as the deadline for these nominations. Please submit them to the Academic Senate, ADM 551 either via campus mail or e-mail ( senate@sfsu.edu). If you have questions, please e-mail them to the Senate.

We know that we can come together to plan successfully - our first CUSP process demonstrated that clearly. We hope that many of you will choose to join us now in the continuation of that positive and rewarding enterprise.

Sincerely yours,

Robert A. Corrigan

President

Pamela Vaughn

Chair - Academic Senate


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