Working Group

Members

Mark Christel, Director of Libraries; Susan Clayton, Professor of Psychology and Environmental Studies; Grant Cornwell, President; Roger Dills, Senior Systems Administrator; Ellen Falduto, Chief Information & Planning Officer; Shawna Ferris, student (’13); Heather Fitz Gibbon, Dean for Faculty Development and Professor of Sociology and Anthropology; Scott Friedhoff, Vice President for Enrollment and College Relations; Steve Gault, Chair Campus Stewardship Committee (trustee); Thomas Gilliss, student (’13); Kurt Holmes, Dean of Students; Laurie Houck, Vice President for Development; John Hopkins, Associate Vice President for College Relations and Marketing; Angela Johnston, Secretary of the College, Secretary of the Board of Trustees, Chief of Staff; Christie Kracker, Associate Dean of Students; Hank Kreuzman, Dean for Curriculum and Academic Engagement, Associate Professor of Philosophy; Sharon Lynn, Associate Professor of Biology; Jackie Middleton, Associate Vice President for Facilities and Auxiliaries;
Jeff Mori, Facilities Procurement and Projects Manager; Carolyn Newton, Provost; Sara Patton, Senior Advisor to the President for Development; Laurie Stickelmaier, Vice President for Finance and Business (chair)

Working Group Charge

The College of Wooster is engaged in an effort to develop a Campus Plan by March 2012. Two committees will guide this effort. The Steering Committee is composed of the senior staff in the President’s Cabinet and will be responsible establishing goals and objectives as well and for making final decisions on  direction and priorities. They will have the advice of an ad hoc college working group convened formally to represent the College community in the process. While the Steering Committee is a decision-making body, the Working Group’s role is that of a decision-shaping body.

Members of the Campus Plan Working Group will act as the College’s primary representatives in hearing, reviewing and reacting to the work of the consultant team engaged by the College to prepare the Plan. Accordingly, the Working Group will be broadly representative of the College’s multiple constituencies.

The Working Group will commit to meeting on average once a month during the course of the study. Most of these meetings will be with the consultant team and will provide multiple opportunities for group members to react to findings, comment on proposals, and generally to represent the best interests of the College as the process advances.

Working Group members should also act as liaisons between the group and their colleagues at the College to disseminate information about the process and informally collect input from the College community.

The Working Group will be supplemented by a number of focused task forces concentrating on different aspects of the Plan. These bodies will report their observations and recommendations to the larger Group.

As the process nears its conclusion (scheduled for March 2012) the Working Group should organize itself to develop a brief summary report that will address the following points:

• An overview of the group’s participation in the process;
• The key issues determined to affect the development of the plan and its implementation;
• A recommendation to the Steering Committee on plan adoption.

This report will be included in the consultant-prepared report that documents the process.

(May 11, 2011)

Consultants:

Arthur Lidsky, Principal, Dober-Lidsky-Mathey
George Mathey, Principal, Dober-Lidsky-Mathey