These task forces emerge from work done by the Strategic Planning Committee. The committee’s most recent report to the community set forth three broad goals:
- Goal One: Mount Holyoke College will demonstrate a deep and abiding commitment to a liberal education grounded in the arts and sciences which prepares the next generation of women leaders for life, profession, and service through purposeful engagement with the world.
- Goal Two: Mount Holyoke College will develop and begin to implement a financial model that is sustainable and achieves the College’s goals while continuing to produce a balanced annual operating budget.
- Goal Three: Mount Holyoke College will ensure that its policies, practices, and campus culture support the mission and values of the College, and are innovative, responsive to challenge and change, and continuously assessed and improved.
Slicing across the three goals are four areas that have emerged as high priorities for immediate, even urgent, attention. Those areas are the focus of the Presidential Task Forces:
| Curriculum to Career | |
|---|---|
| Chris Benfey | Professor of English and Acting Dean of Faculty—Chair |
| Alan Bloomgarden | Coordinator of Community Based Learning |
| Renae Brodie | Associate Professor of Biological Sciences—CPC Liaison |
| Michael Davis | Professor of Art |
| Darby Dyar | Professor of Astronomy and Chair of Astronomy |
| Steve Koppi | Director of the Career Development Center |
| Katie Kraschel '06 | Student, Harvard Law School |
| Catherine McGraw | Associate Director of Admission |
| Jane Zachary | Executive Director of the Alumnae Association |
| New Markets | |
| Lenore Carlisle | Coordinator of Educational Programs and Assistant Professor of Education-CPC Liaison |
| Tara Fitzpatrick | Director of Corporations and Foundations |
| Steve Herman | Senior Advisor to President |
| Janice Hudgings | Professor of Physics, Associate Dean of Faculty for Science, and Chair of Physics—Chair |
| Vanessa James | Professor of Theatre Arts and Chair of Theatre Arts |
| Jale Okay | Director of International Experiential Learning |
| Patricia VandenBerg | Executive Director of Communications and Marketing |
| Alex Wirth-Cauchon | Director of Research and Instructional Support, LITS |
| New Markets-Subgroup | |
| Diane Anci | Interim Vice President for Enrollment and College Relations and Dean of Admission |
| Lee Bowie | Professor of Philosophy and Chair of Philosophy |
| Lenore Carlisle | Coordinator of Educational Programs and Assistant Professor of Education-CPC Liaison |
| Alison Donta-Venman | Director of Institutional Research |
| Mary Jo Maydew | Vice President for Finance and Administration Emeritus |
| Matt McKeever | Associate Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean of Faculty |
| Mike Robinson | Professor of Economics and Chair of Complex Organizations |
| Peggy Wolff '76 | Trustee of the College |
| Academic Core | |
| Nick Baker | Instructional Technology Consultant, LITS |
| Robin Blaetz | Associate Professor of Film Studies, Chair of Film Studies, and Associate Dean of Faculty |
| Amber Douglas | Assistant Professor of Psychology and Education |
| Darren Hamilton | Professor of Chemistry and Chair of Chemistry—Chair |
| Matt McKeever | Associate Professor of Sociology and Associate Dean of Faculty |
| Joshua Roth | Associate Professor of Anthropology |
| Sharon Stranford | Associate Professor of Biological Sciences |
| Ken Tucker | Professor of Sociology |
| Lucas Wilson | Associate Professor of African American Studies and Economics—CPC Liaison |
| Admission/Retention | |
| Diane Anci | Interim Vice President for Enrollment and College Relations and Dean of Admission |
| Kathy Blaisdell | Director of Student Financial Services |
| Rachel Cartmell | Director of Development Communications |
| Krista Denno | Administrative Assistant, Admission |
| Lori Hendricks | Associate Athletic Director |
| Amy Martin | Associate Professor of English—Chair |
| Becky Packard | Professor of Psychology and Education and Co-Director of the Weissman Center for Leadership and the Liberal Arts |
| Mike Robinson | Professor of Economics and Chair of Complex Organizations |
| Donna Van Handle | Senior Lecturer in German and Dean of International Students |
| Tanya Williams | Coordinator of Multicultural Affairs and Associate Dean of Students |
The charge of each Presidential Task Force will be to develop recommendations for bold yet realistic change through review of current practice at Mount Holyoke and best practices elsewhere, and through creative and focused exploration of steps that will improve the College’s situation both in the pressing short term and for a sustainable longer term.
More specifically, each task force will be expected to approach its work through the lens of the three goals plus several other filters including integration of technology, Five College collaborations, best practices, the future of higher education, marketing, impact on staffing, and building on the College’s strengths. An additional group will look at financial dimensions of evolving recommendations to ensure progress toward Goal Two. Task forces will report to the planning committee and president. Their recommendations will be reviewed by standing committees where appropriate.
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