Goal I: Provide professional development training and educational opportunities to District members

Strategies:

• Conduct a District conference in Baltimore that is geared for professionals at all levels, and provide added value as institutional professional budgets are trimmed.
• Sponsor non-conference programming that meets targeted member needs through initiatives funded by the Venture Capital Fund (VCF). In the VCF funding process, give some priority to programs for two target constituencies: professionals at community colleges and at independent schools.
• Add panel presentation of VC winners at conference to communicate their awards and programs funded.
• Create more scholarships to allow individuals to attend who may not have the funds budgeted for conference attendance.

Coordinated by:

Megan Mercier & Tom Hanrahan-Conference Co-Chairs
Ivan Adames - Venture Capital Fund Co-Chair, Stephen Dare - Venture Capital Fund Co-Chair

Financial support:

• Conference budget
• Venture Capital Fund: $30,000 (2 funding rounds of $15,000 each)
• Scholarships for community college and independent schools and first time attendees to District II Conference: $10,000

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Goal II: Develop strategies to aid institutional members in the recruitment and retention of staff and recruitment of new institutions to District II

Strategy:

• Develop deliberate programs that will assist CASE members to recruit and retain staff. In the first year, add this focus to the programs that are already in place, including: Conference Student Delegate program
  • Conference Emerging Leaders Workshop
  • Conference New Professionals Workshop
  • Opportunity and Inclusion Committee
  • CASE/ASAP network
  • Venture Capital grants
• Identify and distribute best practices for staff retention
• Board members support recruitment and retention of institutional members and new institutions to District

Coordinated by:

t.b.d. Need volunteer from the Board- Membership Coordinator

Financial support:

$1,500 for Opportunity & Equity Committee
Other funding is in place through the conference budget and the Venture Capital Fund

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Goal III: Formalize and enhance the operations of the Board

Strategy:

• Review the structure and profile of the board, with a goal to make the board fairly reflective of the makeup of the District
• Develop stewardship practices for volunteers
• Develop communication strategies for the Board members

Coordinated by:

Executive Committee of the Board

Financial support:

None specified or necessary at this time.

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Goal IV: Develop communication strategies and vehicles to enhance communication with District members

Strategy:

• Communicate the benefits of District II and CASE membership
• Create regular and consistent messages to membership to reinforce the value of District II membership
• Develop new Web site content - Enhance and maintain the Web site, keeping content fresh and relevant
• Research new communication tools for the members, i.e. E-Newsletter
• Create communication tool to highlight District Award winners
• Communicate the work of the District Board members to their institutions
• Conduct needs assessment to determine professional development needs and areas of interest of District members
• Communicate advancement best practices to our members

Coordinated by:

District communications coordinator, Wendell Collins
District treasurer, Julie Siler

Financial support:

$2,500

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Goal V: Continue to recognize outstanding professional practices and people through the District Accolades/Awards program, and provide a way to disseminate best practices to members.

Strategy:

Use Accolades and Achievement awards program as primary vehicle; continue to recognize award winners at conference; add more recognition of award winners on Web site; consider naming the unnamed Achievement awards after District luminaries;

Coordinated by:

Awards Committee: Lori Eastman, chair

Financial support:

Awards event at conference has financial support from Board via the conference budget
Note: Awards program is expected to generate $28,000 in income for District operations

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Goal VI: Enhance the diversification of the institutional members and their staff members throughout District II.

Strategy:

• Focus on opportunity and equity throughout all the District goals
• Support the recruitment of a variety of types of institutions and increase the ethnicity, gender, minority representation, etc. within the institutions
• Coordinate with CASE-DC on strategies and implementation

Coordinated by:

Board Committee on Opportunity and Inclusion Chair
Rob Henry - CASE - DC provide support

Financial Support:

TBD