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From the article:

Thames and Exline's questions about the period - and their assertion the problems existed beforehand - bothered Henry.

"I was quite surprised and disappointed that they would make those kinds of statements," Henry said. "It seemed to me like this was to shift the focus from what the reality is. The reality is this administration has focused on a lot of other things besides strategic planning. ... I regret they have told the story as they have so far."

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One of Henry's accomplishments as provost, he said, was spending a year to help create a strategic plan for Southern Miss that is inclusive and tries to engage "all parts of the campus."

That plan, finished in 1999, might have served as a basis for improving the university's reporting and assessment of itself to SACS, but Henry said the plan was never put into place.

"That strategic plan got lost on the shelf," Henry said.

But Southern Miss officials have created a new strategic plan for the university which was begun last year and a draft of it has been distributed to administrators, Exline said.

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Is this (CLICK HERE) the spoof "plan" that Dr. Exline says "was begun last year and...distributed to administrators"?  --

Give me a break, that was cooked up in an hour or less just so someone could say we have goals.  That is obviously moronic, sophomoric work. I know.  I used to BE a moronic sophomore.

Does anybody know where to find the comprehensive plan that was developed under Dr. Henry's guidance?  My recollection is that it ran to 50 pages or so.  Can anyone confirm?

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Originally posted by: ram
"__________________________________________________________________________________ Does anybody know where to find the comprehensive plan that was developed under Dr. Henry's guidance?  My recollection is that it ran to 50 pages or so.  Can anyone confirm?"

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Took a bit of digging, but here it is:  http://www.usm.edu/pubs/strategicplan/pdf/usm/strategic.pdf

Someone may want to print it out before they zap it from the Internet.

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Originally posted by: truth4usm/AH
"One minor detail, though:  why include Jameela's age and not Myron Henry's age??"

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'Cause Myron was smarter than I was on that question!

Jameela (now officially tagged as an oldster)

Yep -- I have all the copies of this puppy. I even brought it with me to my meeting with Brad Bond in our straegic plan focus group.  just in case. But it didn't come up (not Brad's fault).

I agree with Amy -- the "goals" were first given to me in a meeting with Dean Pooid and the chairs. It was given to us -- pretty much in this same form -- as a working document which we should use as we went about putting together our reports on assessesments, gorwth, etc.

I wrote Joan an email and indicated to her that I felt this was pretty thin stuff. I understood goals to be qantitative things -- things you can actually accomplish and prove you accomplished them. But I also said (speaking for myself) that without some kind of qualitative umbrella to support and embody the goals it would be difficult to talk about processes (how are we going to get there) and it would be particularly difficult to understand how to prioritize our efforts to reach those goals. This, to me, suggests a "strategic plan." I got back a little thank you indicating she'd take my suggestions into consideration.

That's it. The goals are still pretty much the same. And I have no idea what "continue to evaluate and improve student learning" without the student learning having some kind of qualitative vision the helps establish a direction of teaching, learning and assessment.