2008 Woodie Awards
Outgoing provost developing strategic plan
Benjamin Pomerance
Issue date: 3/7/08 Section: News
Originally published: 3/6/08 at 3:57 PM EST
Last update: 3/6/08 at 3:55 PM EST
In three months, Plattsburgh State Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Robert Golden will leave his office for the last time, embarking on his new career at the PSUC branch campus in Queensbury.
He plans on going out with a bang.
Between now and the end of June, Golden will be spearheading PSUC's strategic planning process, a college-wide effort that could initiate sweeping changes on campus by the spring of 2009.
The new strategic plan, which Golden hopes will be finalized by November 2008, will define PSUC's goals and directives for the next three to five years. Primary items up for discussion range from college technology objectives to campus diversity to increasing the percentage of full-time faculty in academic departments.
The upcoming plan could potentially create new undergraduate and graduate programs at the college, alter PSUC's selectivity standards and establish, as Golden puts it, "a distinct overall mission for Plattsburgh State."
And while he will soon be leaving this campus, Golden said he can't wait to start planning for its future.
"This is a very exciting process to be part of," he said. "We are at a point now where this campus is moving in a positive direction. This plan needs to define ways in which the entire campus - students, faculty, academic departments and everybody else involved at Plattsburgh - can keep moving in the right direction."
Defining the terms of change, Golden said, is a vital part of the duties facing the architects of the strategic plan. He believes the college's most recent strategic plan, designed by the committee in 2004, did not include enough specific, ongoing initiatives in their final report, a problem he hopes will not recur in this new effort. "That didn't work," Golden said of the previous plan. "There were some excellent ideas put forth in the planning process, but because we decided the proposals could be for one-time initiatives only, many things ended up falling by the wayside. That's not very strategic."
He plans on going out with a bang.
Between now and the end of June, Golden will be spearheading PSUC's strategic planning process, a college-wide effort that could initiate sweeping changes on campus by the spring of 2009.
The new strategic plan, which Golden hopes will be finalized by November 2008, will define PSUC's goals and directives for the next three to five years. Primary items up for discussion range from college technology objectives to campus diversity to increasing the percentage of full-time faculty in academic departments.
The upcoming plan could potentially create new undergraduate and graduate programs at the college, alter PSUC's selectivity standards and establish, as Golden puts it, "a distinct overall mission for Plattsburgh State."
And while he will soon be leaving this campus, Golden said he can't wait to start planning for its future.
"This is a very exciting process to be part of," he said. "We are at a point now where this campus is moving in a positive direction. This plan needs to define ways in which the entire campus - students, faculty, academic departments and everybody else involved at Plattsburgh - can keep moving in the right direction."
Defining the terms of change, Golden said, is a vital part of the duties facing the architects of the strategic plan. He believes the college's most recent strategic plan, designed by the committee in 2004, did not include enough specific, ongoing initiatives in their final report, a problem he hopes will not recur in this new effort. "That didn't work," Golden said of the previous plan. "There were some excellent ideas put forth in the planning process, but because we decided the proposals could be for one-time initiatives only, many things ended up falling by the wayside. That's not very strategic."
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