Strategic Planning Committee Guidelines and Recommendations

• The needs of our students and the people we serve are paramount. We should strive to maintain diversity in our students, faculty/staff, and clientele.
• There should be open and sufficient communication regarding decisions.
• Allow departments and county offices to have input to decisions affecting them.
• Operations and Maintenance (O&M) budgets should not be converted to faculty/staff salaries.
• Classified staff should be largely untouched, not converted to faculty/staff salaries.
• Make realignments instead of cuts, whenever possible.
• Do not combine Cooperative Extension Service and Academic departments.
• Do not penalize departments regarding tenure decisions.
• Do not close county Extension offices.
• Do not overburden remaining faculty/staff without giving adequate resources and recognition.
• Try not to cut graduate assistantships.