Old mission statement target of new revisions

Typically a mission statement is no longer than a few paragraphs, which leaves the college’s current slab of script looking a little bloated.

A hybrid task force of students and faculty met Jan. 5 for a ram-and-jam brain typhoon, where the group surveyed for thoughts on the college’s goals and priorities.

“From an admission’s viewpoint (the mission statement) allows for a consolidated viewpoint for students with specific ideals looking for specific colleges, and from an administrative viewpoint it provides a standard for administrators to operate by,” said Andrew Whittaker, a sophomore political science major and Student Government Association senator.

The current mission, the Institutional Mission Statement and Strategic Plan, is part of the college’s Technical Memorandum, which can be downloaded online. The three-page document is full of items and legal-sounding language.

“What we want to achieve is a more streamline, user-friendly version of our current mission statement,” said Patty Maguire, a senior English major and student representative on the mission statement task force. “It was interesting to see that both faculty and student representatives had a lot of the same insights and goals.”

In addition, the mission statements of four other universities, namely: North Georgia College & State University, Brown, Columbus and Georgia Tech were surveyed.

No date has been set for a follow-up meeting, but speculations by committee members point toward early to mid February with a tentative goal of completion set for fall 2010.

Posted by Stephen Hundley on Jan 29 2010. Filed under News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry