1998 All-University Planning Retreat Agenda

September 18, 1998
School of Law

1:00 Opening Remarks – President Casteen and Donald Kennedy, president emeritus and Bing Professor of Environmental Sciences, Stanford University

Room: Withers-Brown Hall Room 104

2:00 Focus Groups – Session I

(Note all rooms are in Withers-Brown Hall)

  Fine and performing arts (Room 104)
  Sciences (Room 152)
  Public service and outreach (Room 154)
  International Programs (Room 102)

Sample questions for discussion:

1. What are our aspirations in this area?
2. Who should we compare ourselves to?
3. What will it take to achieve our goals in this area?

3:30 Break

4:00 Focus Groups – Session II

(Participants attend a second focus group from list above. Rooms are the same as in Session I.)

5:30 Break – depart for working dinner at Carr’s Hill

6:00 Dinner

7:30 Retreat summary and closing remarks – President Casteen

What have we learned?
Topics we didn’t get to
How will retreat feedback be used?
Where do we go from here?

8:30 Retreat concludes