Vision and Goals

Over the last several years, we have focused increasingly on leadership development in our students. We should continue to do so. In fact, we have the unique opportunity to transform the concept of leadership by connecting superior classroom learning with real-world experience within the context of the liberal arts. This will require that all faculty, students, and staff are engaged in the educational experience and committed to being leaders in whatever they pursue.

Goals

1. Doane College will recruit, develop, and support accomplished and innovative teacher-scholars who provide leadership and service to the College in realizing its mission.
2. The Doane College liberal arts and sciences curriculum will emphasize high expectations, personal responsibility, leadership, free inquiry, and innovation.
3. Doane College will recruit and support students who seek to be actively engaged in the intellectual enterprise and the community.
4. Doane College will recruit, develop, and support accomplished and innovative staff who provide leadership and service to the College in realizing its mission.
5. Doane College, in its curriculum and community, will embrace local, national, and global diversity and will demonstrate our commitment to its value.
6. Doane College will be fiscally responsible and enhance its financial profile.
7. Doane College will promote its public reputation of scholarship and high achievement

Here are elements of the Central Planning Committee's Foundational Document:

• Mission Statement
• Pillars 
• Barriers to Meeting our Goals 
• Strategies