Spring 2021 CLASP Committee

The CLA Strategic Plan Committee (CLASP) met for two full-day sessions (March 29-30, 2021) to review and synthesize a wide range of past input and recent feedback and identified four general themes that capture the needs that a CLA strategic plan should address:

  1. The need for a sense of belonging and community in CLA, quality education, and student success, by addressing isolation and specific obstacles that faculty (in particular members of shared identity groups), staff and student groups experience and that inhibit or constrain their abilities to succeed.
  2. The need for consistent communication and information between the administration and all constituencies involved, including all faculty, shared identity groups, students, and staff, supported by the right infrastructure of staff, data, and resources.
  3. The need for more transparent governance (i.e., decision-making and resource allocation) and effective administrative structures (especially Chairs and Dean’s Office), especially to better serve students.
  4. The need to address a range of additional faculty concerns, mostly around the inequities in recruitment, hiring, retention, promotion, salary, and workload.

You can find the full CLASP committee report here.