RESPONSE TO PUBLIC COMMENTS While creating the SE Plan, we sought to engage the faculty, staff and administrators during its development. Opportunities for extended engagement included serving for one year on the SE Plan steering committee or one of three subcommittees. Opportunities for public comment included placing the draft strategic enrollment plan on a dedicated website, providing a platform for online comments, hosting a university discussion forum centered on the goals and how to achieve them, and presenting the plan to over twenty groups - colleges, academic and student support departments and faculty senate representatives. Public comment always deserves a response. What follows addresses the themes that emerged during presentations and online comment. The complete notes from the breakout sessions and transcripts of the online comment are included in Appendix A. THE STRATEGIC ENROLLMENT PLAN Theme: The strategic enrollment plan seems light on details and long on general strategies. How are we actually going to implement those strategies? What resources will they take? When looking at KPIs, how will we attribute those to specific resources? The purpose of a strategic enrollment plan is to identify quantifiable and measureable enrollment goals, and identify strategies to achieve them. The SE Implementation and Assessment (IAA) plan. Will identify the actual boots-on-the-ground tactics, many of which are best practices, needed to meet the goals. If the initiatives require additional resources, those will be considered during the annual budget planning process. The IAA will use the KPIs as quantifiable measures of how well CWU is meeting the goals of the SE Plan. It’s likely the list of KPIs will change as part of the IAA plan development.
Theme: I would like to see that enhancing environmental sustainability at CWU is identified as a priority in the strategic enrollment plan.
Enhancing environmental sustainability is outside the scope of a strategic enrollment plan. It can be considered in a university strategic plan.
Theme: I know a lot of work has been put into this and the focus on a data driven imperative is a good start. It may or may not be relevant to whether my input is relevant to this project, but I am familiar with strategic planning in private organizations, and my PhD is in Management, with the major focus in Strategic Management and Planning. I don't see what could be considered a strategic plan in this document. There are goals in several disaggregations of the components of enrollment.
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