To achieve this the strategic planning process will explore what are the core values that inform this goal?

1. To educate highly promising students and promote the intellectual and personal maturation required for global citizenship
   
   Trained in critical inquiry, Lafayette graduates possess verbal, written, and quantitative literacy. They are morally knowledgeable and possess multicultural sophistication. Our alumni are conversant in technology and the arts. While they have disciplinary expertise, they are broadly educated, understand the multi-disciplinary nature of complex problems and are life-long learners.


2. To support highly qualified faculty as teachers and scholars who make meaningful contributions to the lives of their students and to the knowledge and conduct of their disciplines.


3. To support a highly qualified and professional administration and staff who are essential to the functioning and advancement of the College.


4. To be a caring and engaged community whose members are mutually interested in the well being and flourishing of all.

The subcommittee will be examining the College’s current policies and practices with respect to enhancing diversity on campus among students, faculty, and staff.

To that end, the subcommittee intends to look closely at the current admissions and financial aid practices and analyze their impact on, and effectiveness in enhancing, diversity among students on campus. The subcommittee will also be examining Lafayette’s employment efforts to enhance diversity. With respect to campus culture, the subcommittee will analyze the College’s ability to support a more diverse environment including issues related to academic support, student social life, support for Lafayette employees, and the enhancement of diversity through other means (including efforts to reach out to diverse business partners and speakers, and the inclusion of diversity training on campus).

The subcommittee intends to perform this work through “sub” subcommittees that will focus on our current admissions practices, current financial aid practices (including the effect of merit aid), modeling the effects of different admissions and financial aid approaches, a study of best practices at other institutions aimed at enhancing diversity, a review of Lafayette employment efforts to enhance diversity in our faculty and staff, and a study of campus climate issues related to diversity.

Objective:
Discuss how the arts can play an enhanced role in the life of the campus and its community.

Issues for Discussion:

• What do you consider to be your department’s/area of expertise’s assets?
• How would you enhance those assets?
• What new programs would you propose?
• What staffing needs would you need in order to actualize present or proposed programs?
• What facility needs would you require in order to actualize present or proposed programs?
• What can we learn from comparable institutions in developing arts and interdisciplinary collaborations?

• The Third Street corridor from the foot of College Hill to Rt. 22
• Our adjacent neighborhood on College Hill
• Academic engagement through community-based teaching, service outreach, and educational programs for the public
• City-wide issues not covered under the other three areas such as, safety, encouragement of local business, and individual participation in community organizations

The group will make recommendations both regarding programs that deal intensively with foreign areas and regarding general education for all students.

• That Lafayette faculty and students will have access to the information they need to excel as scholars and learners and that Lafayette graduates will be “information literate” (i.e., that they will know how to find, evaluate, and use information and understand the ways in which information is created, organized, and disseminated).
• The Lafayette’s special collections (including manuscripts, rare books, photographs, institutional records, and cultural artifacts) will be enhanced and expanded and will make a greater contribution to the College’s teaching mission and institutional distinctiveness.
• The Lafayette’s data infrastructure and services will be sufficiently accessible, reliable, and secure to support the intensive electronic communication and computation that has become a necessary condition for learning, scholarship, and business in a global society.
• That all Lafayette constituencies (including current and prospective students, faculty and staff, alumni, and the community) will have tools to enhance communication and collaboration and thus better serve the educational mission of the College. A particular focus will be issues involving the Internet and the ways that the College community can best use Internet-based technology.

The LSI Committee is examining the life sciences broadly and hopes to develop exciting and creative new programs in this important field. As part of its work, the Committee will also propose a conceptual framework for a new facility that could house these programs, including the Biology Department.