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One of the big tasks we face as a community this semester is the rewriting of GSPM's strategic plan. We last did a full plan in 2003, and that five-year plan is now seriously out-of-date.

This week the leadership team began the process of creating the new plan with an exercise to identify our strengths and weaknesses. That was a great session, and I thought everybody involved brought great ideas and great energy to the effort.

We will be producing a draft of the plan in the next several weeks, and we will share that with the whole community. I hope to hear from current students, alumni, faculty and our friends and supporters out there – this plan needs to reflect the best thinking of all of us.

To that end, I am pleased to invite everyone to the first of our monthly community forum meetings, on Wednesday, February 17, 2010 from 7-8 PM in the Marvin Center (Room 402). We will have one of these every month from now on, and it will be on a different night each month so class schedules will not lock anybody out from attending at least some of the meetings.

So get ready to take part in defining the next five years of GSPM, and helping us to build on what we have accomplished in our first 23 years.