The Planning Process
The new five-year College of Arts & Sciences strategic plan was created utilizing input from department chairs, faculty, and staff during the course of the 2023/2024 academic year. Important steps in the process included the following:
- Academic departments and other support programs contributed their ideas during the listening sessions with the University Strategic Planning Group.
- Concomitantly, a University-wide call for “white papers” was announced, which asked faculty and staff for new ideas to help chart the strategic pathway for Baylor in the coming five years.
- Four subcommittees of faculty, staff, and associate deans from A&S were appointed in the summer of 2024 to make recommendations on important topics, with access to the appropriate white papers.
- Thirty-five members of the College of Arts & Sciences Board of Advocates were surveyed on their ideas for the future of Baylor University.
- Also during the summer, the subcommittee recommendations and information gleaned from the Board of Advocates by the associate deans and staff were compiled into a single document.
- The plan was then submitted to the Arts & Sciences Council of Chairs for review and comment before finalizing the document, which was submitted on December 1, 2024, to the Office of the Provost.
- Beginning in the spring of 2025, departments and programs within Arts & Sciences will be asked to respond to how they will contribute to the implementation of the A&S strategic plan.