Charting the Future

Abstract

Today, the MnSCU Board of Trustees will review the final version of Charting the Future. Although our Hopes and Dreams process preceded and was quite different in approach from Charting the Future, some areas overlap. You may remember that our process led us to focus on five priorities: People, Programs, Price, Place, and Pride. Some of these themes overlap with Charting: Price, for example, corresponds with the Affordability theme evident in Charting the Future. When we have used the term People as part of our hopes and dreams, we have spoken of diversity as a major component – another theme in Charting the Future. In addition, the report has a lot to say about academic programming, something we have also chosen as one of our themes. Although our process and structure are very different from those associated with Charting the Future, there is a complementarity that I think we can harness to enhance our success.