Review decision-making processes and improve communication.

• Facilities Needs & Planning Committee (1999) recommended new communication procedures and practices to Council
• Annual facilities forums for campus and neighbors, Winter 1999 and ongoing
• Quarterly "Construction and Planning Updates" in Currently @ Carleton, Summer 1999 and ongoing
• Annual construction report to College Council, Fall 2000 and ongoing
• Instituted Web-based project descriptions
• Periodic retreats of TWM & Faculty Council initiated 1998-99

Develop initiatives to enhance our sense of common purpose.

• Committee on Convocation and Common Conversation (CCCC) 1999-00 issued report in Spring 2000.Recommendation that convocation
  be refocused on more common issues.
• ECC proposal on common time approved by faculty and College Council, Spring 2000.Common time on Tuesdays and Thursdays initiated in fall 2001.