<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><span>As you may have
        heard, the College has begun a process to build on the work done
        in 2011 to
        create an expanded strategic plan that will engage the whole
        Hampshire
        community in defining our priorities and goals for the coming
        three to five
        years. </span></p>
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    <p class="MsoNormal"><span>A sound planning
        process blends the vision of leaders with the ideas of the
        community and
        it creates the space and time for that blending to occur
        iteratively over time,
        through several cycles of input and reflection. We want to
        engage
        everyone—faculty, staff, and students—and benefit from
        everyone's knowledge,
        experience, and perspectives. To accomplish this, the Strategic
        Planning
        Steering Committee (SPSC), co-chaired by Norm Holland and
        Theresa Leroux,
        is facilitating many opportunities for members of the community
        to think hard
        and share their thoughts with colleagues in inclusive and
        respectful ways.
         </span></p>
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    <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Hampshire is working
        with Keeling & Associates (K&A)—a comprehensive higher
        education
        consulting group—to support and advise this process. The SPSC is
        organizing almost 100 individual and small group meetings this
        fall in which K&A
        will gather community input.</span></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span><br>
        <b>The SPSC invites</b></span><b><span> students connected with Spiritual Life</span></b><b><span>
          to join Keeling & Associates for a discussion on
          <span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">Wednesday, November 13</span></span>
          from <span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">5:00-5:50 p.m.</span></span> in the Bradford room, second floor of the
          Library. 
          Please mark your calendars.  As you prepare for that meeting,
          please think
          about these questions:</span></b></p>
    <p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
    <ul style="margin-top:0in" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal"><span>What <u>must</u> be on the table in considering
          Hampshire's priorities for the coming three to five years?</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span>What should <u>not</u> be on the table? That is,
          what is so fundamental and distinctive that it should not be
          up for review or change?</span></li><li class="MsoNormal"><span>What should the "next approximation" of Hampshire
          College be? </span></li></ul>
    <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.5in"><span> </span></p>
    <span>For more information,
        see </span><a href="http://strategicplanning.hampshire.edu/" target="_blank"><span>strategicplanning.hampshire.edu</span></a><span> or
        email </span><a href="mailto:spsc@hampshire.edu" target="_blank"><span>spsc@hampshire.edu</span></a><span>. 
        </span></div>