November 6, 2013
Dear Campus Community:
As I hope you are aware, we have been developing a strategic plan and have actively engaged the campus for input
on both the Mission, Vision, and Values that define us and on the overall strategic plan that will guide us in the
coming years. The purpose of this email is to update the campus on the status of this overall strategic planning
effort.
President Scoggins formally launched strategic planning in January of 2013 by informing the board of this year long
effort. Campus open forums were held in the spring, the Strategic Planning Working Group was established, and we
published our first iteration of Mission, Vision, and Values in July of this year. Attached to this email is the sixth
version of Mission, Vision, and Values. I want to thank all of you that have added your thoughts to the development
of these statements; your input was very valuable. As they currently stand, we have considered inputs from all
sectors of the campus and have carefully solicited BOT input as well. We have the support of the Board in these
statements as written.
A first draft of a strategic plan was presented to the Board in September and this plan was also released to campus
for comment. Using a series of campus forums, we collected comments on the draft plan. These comments may be
found on the Blackboard site (https://blackboard.mines.edu course: Mines.perm: SPWG: Strategic Planning –
Forum Results – Fall Forums) along with the first draft of the plan (in the Draft Summary Documents folder.) The
overall input from the campus forums has been extraordinarily useful and these inputs were critical in further
improving the plan. The current draft of the plan, which reflects BOT as well as campus input, is attached to this
email.
We are currently in the process of soliciting input from the strategic planning working group (names listed below)
and we are also requesting input from the broader campus on this revised draft of the plan. Your input can either be
direct (please send to planning@mines.edu) or to a member of the strategic planning working group. In the coming
weeks, we will also present the plan to all of the organizational units on the campus.
As we enter the month of November, we all note that the fall semester is more than halfway over. This in turn
brings into focus all that we must accomplish in the coming weeks before graduation. Within these time constraints,
if at all possible, please do find a bit of time to consider the strategic plan (again, provide comments electronically to
planning@mines.edu). As always, thanks to all faculty and staff for all that you do for Mines.
All the Best!
M. W. Scoggins
Tom Boyd
Peter Han
Terry Parker
Kirsten Volpi
President
Associate Provost
President’s Chief of Staff
Provost
EVP, Finance and Administration
Members of the Strategic Planning Working Group
John Poate
Tony Dean
Kevin Moore
Ramona Graves
Rod Eggert
David Marr
John McCray
Pat Kohl
Dendy Sloan
John Spear
Nigel Middleton
Barry Martin
Dan Fox
Heather Boyd
Colin Terry
Karen Gilbert
Vicki Nichol
Kay Schneider