Strategic Planning Committee

We have created a Strategic Planning Committee website in order to communicate the history, ongoing activities, and future of the planning process for UMKC. On the website you can view reports that provide background to the planning process, and you can examine strategic plans of the various units. Minutes from the meetings of the steering committee and the subcommittees will be posted as they become available. We encourage you to view the website for regular updates and we are open to receiving your comments by using the “Contact Us” link on the website.

The Strategic Planning Steering Committee is made of students, faculty, staff and community members in an effort to include voices from the various entities that comprise UMKC. Below is a list of the individuals who are serving on the steering committee (which are also listed on the Strategic Planning Committee website):

• Chrisanne Arnold, Staff Council, Department of Environmental Health
  
• Adam Brown, School of Law Student, 2nd Year
  
• Paul Cuddy, Professor and Senior Associate Dean, School of Medicine
  
• Karen Dace, Deputy Chancellor of Diversity Access and Equity
  
• Jennifer DeHaemers, Assistant Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs
  
• Lawrence Dreyfus, Dean of the School of Biological Sciences
  
• Sandy Gault, Director of International Student Affairs
  
• Mary Pat Henry, Professor, Conservatory of Music and Dance
  
• Mary Lou Hines Fritts, CIO and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs
  
• Bridgett Johnson, Student Government Association President, Senior, School of Nursing
  
• Patricia Marken, Professor, School of Pharmacy
  
• Meghann Martens, School of Nursing Student, Freshman
  
• Sarah Morris, Assistant Vice Chancellor, University Communications
  
• Nancy Murdock, Chair and Professor, Department of Counseling and Educational Psychology
• Bonnie Postlethwaite, Librarian IV - Associate Dean of University Libraries
  
• John Purk, Associate Professor and Director, Department of Oral Biology
  
• Walt Rychlewski, Visiting Professor, Bloch School of Business
  
• Jim Sheppard, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
  
• Bob Simmons, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Administrative Affairs and Campus Facilities Management
  
• Michael Strait, President of Staff Council and Director of Academic Assessment
  
• Steve Stroud, Associate Director, Department of Intercollegiate Athletics
  
• Lisen Tammeus, Development Director, Alumni and Constituent Relations
  
• Jeff Thomas, Associate Dean, School of Law
  
• Kevin Truman, Dean of the School of Computing & Engineering
  
• Mel Tyler, Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs
  
• Thad Wilson, Associate Dean, School of Nursing
  
• Hugh Zimmer, Chairman of Zimmer Co.

Ex-Officio

• Larry Bunce, Director of Institutional Research Assessment and Planning
  
• Gary Ebersole, President of the Faculty Senate, Professor and Chair, Department of History
  
• Leo Morton, Interim Chancellor of UMKC
  
• John Readey, Chair of the UMKC Board of Trustees
  

Meetings of the Strategic Planning Steering Committee have been scheduled through February, 2009. Sub-committees are being formed now and will include:

Economic Development
Diversity/Campus Climate
Life and Health Sciences
Visual and Performing Arts
Undergraduate Education/Student Success
Urban Mission/Community Engagement
Science and Technology