CONTENTS Welcome Highlights of 1998-99 Major Goals The Vision for Bates -- 15 Priorities for 2005 A Tour of Bates in 2005 Statistical Review of Bates College Board of Trustees

We present below a selection of the College's established goals for 1998-99. While this list is not an exhaustive presentation of goals adopted for 1998-99, it gives a sense of the short-term planning process that guides Bates College. The goals, involving all College departments, are organized using the four elements of the Vision for Bates, supplemented by a category of "infrastructure" goals. These annual goals are directly connected to the College's priorities and the Vision for Bates.

• Emphasizing Academic Rigor and Achievement
• Strengthening an Ethos and Culture of Engagement
• Developing Connections and Integrating Cohesion
• Organizing a Flexible and Principled Residential Community
• Addressing Infrastructure Priorities
  
  

Emphasizing Academic Rigor and Achievement

• Enlist faculty in interdisciplinary conversations with view to developing specific outcomes.
• Implement support for means of emphasizing senior thesis experience.
• Implement Colby-Bates-Bowdoin study-abroad collaborative project.
• Implement program of support for enhanced faculty research leaves.
• Implement new endowed professorships.
• Accomplish groundwork to establish Mathematics Center.
• Develop Healthy Choices program to address abusive uses of alcohol and related behaviors.
• Begin conversations regarding proposals for addressing support of teaching.
• Implement newly adopted faculty policy regarding study-abroad procedures.
• Begin implementation of specific diversity objectives.
• Implement defined programs and activities that begin to align staff functions with core educational mission of College.
• Experiment with modes of strengthening advising with process for determining improvements.
  

• Continue to be recognized with highest reputational rankings.
• Identify specific target populations and increase their awareness and judgment of the value of liberal arts and the excellence of Bates College.
• Initiate strategic alliance with Lewiston/Auburn communities.
• Integrate consideration of the defining qualities of Bates into presentations of the College and its objectives.
• Develop a College-wide marketing plan that enhances Bates' reputation among the elite liberal arts colleges in the country, defining audiences, key messages, and implementation techniques.
• Expand existing leadership program with connection to social justice.
• Adopt further environmental initiatives and action steps; achieve campus recycling rate of 50 percent.
• Achieve 90-percent retention of current first-year-student cohort.
• Implement enrollment management targets and strategies.
• Implement Alcohol Task Force recommendations.
• Open campus discussion regarding disabilities and begin to relate to overall objectives.
  

• Design an Alumni College program.
• Consider a Learning and Teaching Center.
• Foster campus-wide conversations regarding vision, realities of change, and available resources.
• Implement programs and actions that align staff with core educational mission of the College.
• Continue development of Web communication and other techniques to ease access and communication.
• Consider a Center for Cocurricular Opportunities.
• Achieve 3,800-plus applications (for a class of approximately 450), leading to 4,000 applications by 1999-2000.
• Increase student diversity to 20 percent (including U.S. and international students).
• Achieve athletic recruiting that is supportive of other College goals.
• Help express relation of the value of a Bates education to the affordability of Bates.
• Establish a Visitors Center.
  

• Establish Dorm Councils and expand cocurricular and extracurricular learning opportunities in residences; develop overall set of plans for how this might be significantly increased.
• Begin Honor Code considerations with view to moving toward the crafting of a proposal.
• Accomplish high-level training for staff that provides leadership in areas of tolerance, diversity, and importance of difference.
• Complete Sexual Assault Task Force report and present to community.
• Achieve positive experiments with advising improvements.

• Complete the academic building construction, Lake Andrews restoration, Ladd Library renovation, and the renovation of the Shortridge property into a coastal studies center.
• Plan and execute the continuation of the Dana Chemistry and Commons Quad projects.
• Study campus space needs to guide the reassignment of Coram Library and Libbey Forum following the opening of the new academic building.
• Using the results of such a study of space allocation and utilization, plan for the necessary renovations in Coram, Libbey Forum, and other buildings and spaces.
• Continue recent initiatives to improve handicap accessibility of the campus.
• As a part of the budget development process, develop and propose long-range funding requirements for capital maintenance of campus buildings.
  

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