Re-Rad Strategic Planning Spring 2011

On January 27, 2011, Re-Rad members gathered together to decide on the on Re-Rad's strategic goals and to begin devising a concrete plan that will allow us to reach our goals. To do this we participated in a strategic planning workshop much like the one the college used.

First, we divided into pairs and interviewed each other. We ask questions such as "What attracted you to Re-Rad?", "What have been some high points of being involved in Re-Rad?", and "What do you see as priorities for Re-Rad?"

Everyone involved in this strategic planning session then wrote down strategic goals for Re-Rad on post-it notes. There were numerous priorities suggested including outreach, working more with other student groups, reaching out the community, getting more faculty involved, holding public events, making t-shirts, writing more collaborative documents, aggregating student opinion, civil discourse, keeping Hampshire true to its experimenting academic philosophy, exploring what it means to be a liberal arts school, working on greater school of thought cooperation, having students be actively engaged in their own education, advocating for staff and faculty rights, working for a low student faculty ration, working on improving advisor/advisee relationship, maintaining a voice in college governance, using Re-Rad as a place where you can learn about Hampshire, working for transparency, keeping good representation on campus committees, working to limit the "culture of competition" surrounding evals and passing out of divisions, empowering students, building effective and inclusive governance structures, focusing on student government problems, creating an atmosphere of student "ownership" and responsibility for governance structures, and keeping housing for all students who want it.

We then, as a group, organized this extensive list into groups that fell under overarching themes: "Outreach", "Building Ties," "Internal and External Communication", "Shared Governance," "Unique Academic Program/Pedagogy," "Academic Program Implementation," and "Unique Hampshire (outside of academics)." Each participant in this process was given three stickers, and we all placed a sticker on the goals we felt were most important for Re-Rad to focus on this upcoming semester.