1. What are (will be) the characteristics (demographics, economic status, etc.) of alumni at each campus?

2. What other schools have faced similar problems and what solutions did they come up with?

3. How did the mission and image of other schools change after they moved to university status? What were the positive/negative changes? What was unexpected?

4. What did other schools do with respect to separate images, publications, commencement, etc.

5. What are (smallish) universities which originated from liberal arts colleges, and which colleges still maintain a strong identity as a college?

6. Which colleges still maintain a strong identity as a liberal arts institution? E.g. Harper College/Binghamton University - 1965. How does Harper College maintain such a strong sense of identity within the larger university? How did the university build on the strong foundation provided by Harper?

7. What should be the structure of the alumni relations programs in the new university?

8. What should be the structure of the development programs in the new university?

9. What constitutes an alumnus/alumna at each college? (Do we need to be more specific than college?

10. Who are the targets of our development efforts?

11. What are the goals of the development program now?Ó ÏWhat will the goals be 10 years from now?

12. What is a friend of MWC? Who will be a friend of the University? What are the characteristics of friends?

13. How should marketing and image concerns be addressed? What kind of marketing do we need? Admissions, Alumni, Development, Community

15. How do we maintain and develop our reputation for excellence in all of our academic endeavors?

16. How important is creating a larger endowment? very important, moderately important, etc.

17. What are the important factors that you consider when selecting a college or university? (Question from New Programs Committee. Data available from past research of prospective students for each campus.)
 
 

How do we communicate the change to university status.. . to alumni and other constituency groups? (Question added by research subcommittee of the University Relations Committee in August 2001)