Issues and questions to be addressed:

• What can be learned from the experience of others? What, for example, has been the experience of other institutions, similar to Mary Washington, who have moved to "university status" in recent years? Are there other institutions, within which exist "semi-autonomous" units, which might serve as models for our new university?
  
  
• In light of "university status," what changes should be made to the institution's Mission Statement?

• What new degree programs, graduate and undergraduate, should be developed, and what organizational entities (centers? schools? colleges?) should be created to deliver them? Should new degree programs be considered for the Fredericksburg campus as well as for the James Monroe campus?

• In what ways and to what extent will the two "semi-autonomous" campuses be truly independent, and in what ways will they be interconnected? What new functions and policies need to be developed for each campus and for the university as a whole?

• To what extent will separate institutional images and identities for the two campuses be promulgated and maintained?

• What unintended consequences might there be of any of the proposed changes, and how might those consequences be avoided?

 

With respect to all of the above, what are the priorities? What facilities, spaces, and other resources will need to be secured beyond what is currently available or confidently anticipated? What action steps will need to be taken? Who will be responsible for taking each of those steps? What timelines should be projected?

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