{"id":162,"date":"2007-08-30T14:10:46","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T14:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2007\/08\/30\/president-white-explains-planning-process\/"},"modified":"2007-08-30T14:10:46","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T14:10:46","slug":"president-white-explains-planning-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/2007\/08\/30\/president-white-explains-planning-process\/","title":{"rendered":"President White Explains Planning Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><em>Howard W. Hewitt<\/em> &#8211; Wabash College\u2019s strategic planning was put into perspective Thursday after President Patrick White gave the first Chapel Talk of the new school year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cWe often say we stand on the shoulders of Little Giants before us, but if all we do is look down we might not see clearly and we might fall,\u201d the President said in outlining plans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.wabash.edu\/www2images\/White2.jpg\" align=\"left\" alt=\"\" \/>White announced he would create a President\u2019s Student Advisory Committee to the large crowd of Wabash men gathered for his talk. The Committee will advise the president throughout the year and provide input to the strategic plan.\u2020<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">President White also announced he would ask 40 members of the faculty and staff to join committees to work on various areas of the new plan. He hopes to deliver the strategic plan to Wabash College Trustees during their May, 2008, meeting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cAll colleges do plans,\u201d White said. \u201cBut some do plans out of necessity. We have the fortune of planning from a position of strength.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">White noted the first-week census counted 917 students \u2013 perhaps Wabash\u2019s largest-ever enrollment. He noted the endowment is strong with more than $380 million and the completion of a very successful annual fund drive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The strategic planning will go hand-in-hand with a master plan on campus facilities, White said. But he warned the students not to think of strategic planning as a boring exercise, but a chance to have a hand in shaping the College\u2019s future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThis may sound technical and dry, but it\u2019s very, very important work. You as students must help us. It\u2019s the men and women in the Chapel today who must carry Wabash forward. We&#8217;re Little Giants when we stand tall, but we&#8217;re Little Giants even more when we see far.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Hear White\u2019s full Chapel Talk by clicking on this <a href=\"http:\/\/caleb.wabash.edu\/podcast\/White_Podcast.mp3\">Podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Dean of Students Tom Bambrey will give the Sept. 6 Chapel Talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard W. Hewitt &#8211; Wabash College\u2019s strategic planning was put into perspective Thursday after President Patrick White gave the first Chapel Talk of the new school year. \u201cWe often say we stand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/fyi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}