Summary of Recommendations - 2002
HUMAN RESOURCES
- Increase significantly our pool of talented, diverse applicants
- Re-evaluate our principles and policies regarding financial aid
- Redesign some of our extracurricular programs to improve students' learning and living environment
- Adopt new strategies to increase and strengthen the College community of faculty and staff of color
- Intensify our commitment to staff and faculty development
- Reaffirm our commitment to fair and competitive compensation for all employees
- Extend our current programs and initiatives which bring alumni into closer partnership with the College
- Provide more coordination and oversight of the curriculum by creating a programs and curriculum committee to advise the Dean of the College on decisions related to the academic program
- Reassess and perhaps restructure the curricular organization of the College, including departments, interdisciplinary programs, majors,
concentrations, area studies, and special majors - Rejuvenate the advising system, particularly for first-year students
- Examine the senior year, paying particular attention to the senior integrative exercise and the transition out of Carleton College
DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES, COMMUNICATION, AND COMMUNITY
- Review decision-making processes and improve communication
- Develop initiatives to enhance our sense of common purpose
PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT (IN ORDER OF PRIORITY)
- Develop a Center for the Arts
- Expand the capacity of the library
- Ensure a sufficient number of high-quality classrooms
- Develop a Center for Modern Languages
- Construct additional on-campus student housing
- Consolidate several offices into a single Student Administrative Services Center
- Develop and improve academic space for departments in the humanities, social sciences, and interdisciplinary programs
- Renovate the Burton kitchen, serving, and dining areas
- Renovate Scoville
- Renovate Goodsell, perhaps as a Center for Interdisciplinary Studies