Planning & Effectiveness
Effective strategic planning and budgeting are crucial to our success both in providing a quality education to our students and to enhancing our standing in the academic community.
Institutional Effectiveness
Institutional effectiveness is an accountability function that specifically pertains to the assessment of major areas of WCU through a continuous review of performance and improvement. This web page contains information concerning institutional effectiveness at Western.
Strategic Planning
Strategic Planning and budgeting represent two key tasks for all members of the University community. This page contains key information on the strategic planning and budgeting processes.
Budgeting
Campus budgets, strategic plans and institutional effectiveness and assessment efforts are all aligned activities important to the success of Western. This page contains key information on budgeting processes and how they are tied to the overal strategic planning process.
SACS
The SACS Web Page contains information on the status and progress of Western's reaffirmation process.
Past Reports (Paulien, Program Review, Pricewaterhouse, etc.)
These reports represent points of progress as the university has engaged in its role as an educational leader. Many of these documents have been cited in the SACS reaccreditation documents.
University Policies
University policies concerning institutional research and planning activities are linked from this page.
University Master Plan
This page contains links to the Capital Construction Progress web page and contains a copy of the 2002 Master Plan. It also includes links to the Millennial Initiative documents and information about future plans.
Resource25
Resource25, or R25 as you will hear it called, is "a true campus-wide, multi-user course and event management system which includes robust reporting capabilities and a powerful web component." Information about the system and reports are available from this web page.
Proposed New Mission Statement
This page contains the text of our proposed new mission statement awaiting approval from the Board of Governors.
The Spring 2002 extended mission statement and vision statement are available in this document.