Planning and Budget Council
The council is currently inactive — 7/1/14
2013 Minutes [pdf]
August 28, 2013
2012 Minutes [pdf]
March 8, 2012
January 30, 2012
2011 Minutes [pdf]
November 28, 2011
April 13, 2011
2010 Minutes [pdf]
May 5, 2010
2009 Minutes [pdf]
May 11, 2009
April 29, 2009
February 18, 2009
2008 Minutes [pdf]
March 27, 2009
October 29, 2009
December 10, 2008
2007 Minutes [pdf]
June 13, 2007
December 5, 2007
2006 Minutes [pdf]
January 18, 2006
February 8, 2006
February 22, 2006
March 15, 2006
April 4, 2006
April 11, 2006
October 16, 2006
December 13, 2006
2005 Minutes [pdf]
January 12, 2005
February 9, 2005
March 2, 2005
April 13, 2005
May 11, 2005
September 21, 2005
October 12, 2005
November 14, 2005
December 8, 2005
2013 Focus Group
2013 Focus Group Recommendations [pdf]
Mission: To develop a dynamic strategic planning process that identifies goals, objectives, and the funding mechanisms to ensure Minot State University’s competitive advantage, quality, and growth.
Meetings: Monthly; second Wednesday; 3:00-5:00 P.M. subcommittee meetings convening regularly to conduct research, fact finding, and monitoring of plan.
Membership: nominated by respective governance groups; appointed by president for terms of three and two years; faculty, staff, student and administrative representatives; ex-officio members from Board of Regents and Alumni Board.
Processes: chaired by president; agenda distributed via email by Monday of the week of the meeting and available to campus on the MSU web site; minutes recorded and approved at the following meeting; approved minutes are distributed to members of each respective unit.
Principles:
- Open and honest deliberation
- Institutional viewpoint
- Professionalism
- All key issues and topics affecting institution are to be raised and discussed
- All decisions are supported externally
Purposes:
- Initiate and implement strategic change
- Oversees strategic planning processes
- Establishes strategic planning research procedures (defining key performance indicators, conducting environmental scan)
- Assesses internal and external environments, identification of strengths, threats, challenges, and opportunities; identifies appropriate strategies, goals, and objectives aligned with mission and market).
- Coordinate and facilitate listening, reflecting, communicating and seeking consensus
- Communicating with campus constituency groups (e.g., senate)
- Assess achievement and failures
- Presenting cogent case to campus; communication objectives, explaining plans, encouraging involvement in the processes
- Seek total understanding and commitment by campus
- Learning about planning strategies
- Reassess and question mission, confirm core values
- Setting clear timelines and processes
- Implement a process of institutional review, prioritization and plans for consolidations, elimination, and reallocation
- Conducts public forums and focus groups; collecting information from institutional data reports and internal and external stakeholders
- Aggregates information collected from stakeholders; identifies institutional strengths; discusses and examines key points from stakeholders
- Oversees identification and reporting on Cornerstone Goals (aligned with strategic planning processes)
- Works to align college and specific units’ plans
- Leads public open forums in November and April on planning objectives and budgeting
- Prepares annual report on accomplishments and progress
- Identify five-year and ten year visions and time frame