Is the new major strategic planning process something that was mandated by the ongoing self-study?
LL: SACS does mandate strategic planning. It mandates assessment, accountability and continuous improvement. It requires us to assess what’s happening, hold people accountable for what’s happening and ask these people to get better at what they’re doing. We could have done that in a number of ways that would have satisfied SACS but would not have been as significant a process as what we’ve just talked about. What the President did was decide that we are going to build on the work that we did for SACS and do much more than that. He wants to use strategic planning to get the University to where it needs to be. We’re going to use strategic planning to make sure we allocate resources in the very best way to create a Christian research university. The reaffirmation of accreditation work we did for SACS makes this much easier to do. BN: Let me finish by asking a big picture question. What do you think the end result for Baylor is going to because of the major strategic planning process? LL:
