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Strategic Thinking Initiative
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Welcome to the University of Central Arkansas' Strategic Thinking Initiative (STI). You have reached the Strategic Thinking Steering Committee’s information site, a web place that chronicles the development of UCA's Strategic Framework. Here you can find not only the results of the first part of STI, but can trace its progress through draft documents and other information created as the initiative unfolded.
The Strategic Thinking Initiative was and is right for UCA--not simply for the sake of accreditors or to bolster the university’s reputation, but to reflect on and reaffirm the university’s long-standing educational commitments, to focus and articulate its new initiatives, and to ensure campus-wide participation in its decision-making processes. Vital to this initiative has been our shared commitment to move forward now. As UCA "fills in" the Framework with Academic Planning, Campus Master Planning, and other initiatives across the campus, that initial impetus must not be lost.
UCA began the process of developing a much-needed strategic planning and thinking initiative during early March 2003. President Lu Hardin asked Provost Gabriel Esteban to form a small advance planning team of administrators and faculty to begin the process. That team, the Strategic Planning Advance Team (SPAT), first identified a proven planning process model consistent with suggestions from the National Consortium of Continuous Improvement in Higher Education and with the best on-campus thinking available. In September 2003, SPAT was folded into a larger, more representative group, the Strategic Thinking Steering Committee (STSC). This group was charged with guiding the Strategic Thinking Initiative in the development of a university strategic framework within which the university's vision may be realized and its mission fulfilled. The Board of Trustees approved the UCA Strategic Framework as Board Policy 110 on August 13, 2004.
Please feel free to explore this site and its information--and please get as involved as you are able in our continuing planning and thinking initiatives.
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