Welcome to the Strategic Planning Site

Dear Members of the Campus Community:

      This is an exciting time at Salisbury University.  SU continues to attract national attention and acclaim.  Our numbers are growing and student quality continues to increase steadily, along with applications.  We have all watched the new TETC building quickly approach completion.  The TETC will be followed before long by a parking garage and a new Perdue School of Business – both of which are in design.   

      While all of this is great news for SU, significant changes such as those we are experiencing require careful planning.  The timing is appropriate, therefore, to continue the process to develop a new strategic plan for SU that will chart the University’s course for the next five years (2009-2013).

      The strategic planning process being launched this month across campus will be the umbrella that will encompass other planning efforts on campus including those focused on enrollment strategy, facilities master planning, sustainability initiatives, enhancements to residence life, long-range academic planning, and others.  To kick off this important initiative, I am asking for your help.

      Next week, we will launch a series of workshops across campus to encourage input from students, faculty, staff, board members, and all members of the campus community.  The workshop will take only a small amount of your time, but will provide an important opportunity for each of you to express your opinion about what makes SU distinctive.  This input will help shape the foundation of our planning efforts.   A list of the workshop times and dates is included in this e-mail.  Please sign up for a workshop, and encourage your friends, roommates or coworkers to do the same.  Contact Amy Oneal-Self at aeoneal@salisbury.edu.  You need no preparation or materials for the workshop.  But I believe that if you participate, you will have fun and enjoy a thoughtful discussion. 

      In addition, we have established a Web page to keep the campus community informed about the planning process (http://www.salisbury.edu/president/strategicplanning/).  The page will include a listing of members and minutes from the Strategic Planning & Budgeting Committee, results of the community input workshops, pertinent data and a forum for you to submit questions or comments about the process.  Whether you participate in one of the workshops or stay engaged through the Web site, I encourage each of you to take the time to make your voice heard.

      The process will move expeditiously, with input and any research completed by June, a plan drafted over the summer months, with a draft available for review by the campus community in the fall.  The plan will be finalized by the end of 2008, and implementation will begin in 2009.

      At this important time in the history of the University that we all love, I appreciate your thoughtful participation and support as we move this important initiative forward.

Janet Dudley-Eshbach
President