Overview / Philosophy: 

CFAES wishes to position strategic planning as a learning and alignment process instead of a compliance requirement. This flips the traditional, linear process to a learning process that promotes focus on clarity, possibility, and encourages alignment via iteration. This will improve and transform the way we do things to meet our mission.

Our Guiding Question:

Given the grand challenges facing Ohio and our world today, how can our college become a modern and effective institution that consistently makes decisions and allocates resources in support of our mission in the next 3 to 5 years?

Objectives:

• Socialize our Mission:  "We Sustain Life".
• Delineate our values and explore “Land Grant Principles”.
• Implement processes and practices to support our mission, vision and values.
• Articulate priorities for a modern and effective CFAES.
• Strengthen and align CFAES organizational culture.

Timeline:

1. Finalize process for input, writing the plan, and communicating [Jan-Feb 2019]
2. Gathering input [March-July 2019]
3. Writing / wordsmithing [August-September 2019]
4. Communicating outcomes (rolling out the plan) [Fall 2019]

How to get involved:

• Qualtrics Surveys:
  • Strategic Alignment Questions, Round 1 - Closed 
  • Strategic Alignment Questions, Round 2 - Open through May 10, 2019
  • Strategic Alignment Questions, Round 3 - Open through May 24, 2019
  • Strategic Alignment Questions, Round 4 - Open through June 14, 2019
  • Strategic Alignment Questions, Round 5 - Open through June 28, 2019 
• Engagement Exercises
• Contact Strategic Alignment Team - The Strategic Alignment Team will help guide the process of gathering input and writing up a strategic alignment document.

Resources:

One Mission We Sustain Life (pdf)