With one thing and another, the last few years at The New School have been years of stopping and starting, so when our faculty were invited to a "visioning session" as part of a Strategic Planning process initiated by the president who walked out over the summer, we were a little weary. Strategic planning is be a good thing, of course! But we've been tumbling through overlapping accreditation, strategic planning and, well, presidential search processes, each of which would work better if the others were in place... So is it any wonder we drew a blank when asked to imagine The New School in 2030? Half of us (perhaps half of each of us) balked: so there will be a New School in 2030? The other half scoffed: that's just around the corner, too close to bring about meaningful changes. Plus ça change...
Friday, November 17, 2023
Unstrategic
With one thing and another, the last few years at The New School have been years of stopping and starting, so when our faculty were invited to a "visioning session" as part of a Strategic Planning process initiated by the president who walked out over the summer, we were a little weary. Strategic planning is be a good thing, of course! But we've been tumbling through overlapping accreditation, strategic planning and, well, presidential search processes, each of which would work better if the others were in place... So is it any wonder we drew a blank when asked to imagine The New School in 2030? Half of us (perhaps half of each of us) balked: so there will be a New School in 2030? The other half scoffed: that's just around the corner, too close to bring about meaningful changes. Plus ça change...
