MILESTONES
How the strategic planning process unfolded
June 2021
- Action: Deans & Chairs began discussions on process
- Outcome: Feedback and transparency on process and potential outcomes
September - November 2021
- Action: Department Councils visits, Faculty Council discussions, townhall and individual conversations. Strategic planning became a recurrent agenda item at Faculty Council
- Outcome: Feedback and transparency on process and potential outcomes; initial information gathering phase
November 2021
- Action: Called for nominations (including self-nominations) for the Strategic Plan Committee
- Outcome: Recruited committee members, so that the committee would be constituted for January 2022
- About the Strategic Plan Committee and its members
November - December 2021
- Action: Questionnaire sent out to the community (pre-consultation on Concordia’s strategic directions and current research, teaching, community and other objectives, priorities and concerns)
- Outcome: Initial information gathering phase. Created a word/concept visualisation to be shared with the community in January 2022
- Results of the survey
December 2021 - January 2022
- Action: Field analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats)
- Outcome: Concrete assessment of FoFA’s position and potential. Results shared with the community in January
- Results of the field analysis
- Read the indigenization/decolonization report
January 2022
- Action: A strategic plan draft was prepared by the Dean’s office, drawing on preliminary discussions, the questionnaire results and the field analysis. It was shared in January, along with supporting documents
- Outcome: This document will serve as the basis for Winter 2022 consultation
- See the Faculty of Fine Arts Strategic Plan template
January - April 2022
- Action: Consultation that involved faculty, staff and students (world cafés, idea labs and survey)
- Outcome: Gathered feedback on strategic plan draft and developed new ideas to contribute to the plan
- Anonymous survey: Understanding that asynchronous participation may be what is most convenient for you, we launched a survey-style consultation, active from March 15th - March 28th.
April 2022
Action: Strategic Plan Committee interpreted and developed strategic plan (during a facilitated retreat—three half days)
Outcome: Interpretation, collectively set strategic goals, drafted plan
Summer 2022
- Action: Small group and individual feedback; Revisions and design
- Outcome: Testing intelligibility and feedback; Final document produced
Fall 2022
- Action 1: Strategic plan launch, presentation to FoFA community (starting with Deans & Chairs and Faculty Council)
- Outcome: Information, connecting outcomes to process, calls to action
- Action 2: Invitation to all FoFA units (departments, research units, CDA, CTLs, VCR, FoFA Gallery, etc.) to develop action plans
- Outcome: Leverage and implementation
Yearly
- Action: Review of goals, actions and progress indicators or benchmarks
- Outcome: Calibration and accountability
- Read the 2022-2023 Action Report
