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Thursday, 25 January 2007 |
Strategic plan should guide university, students for years
Appalachian State University’s new strategic plan is something that will hopefully guide our university for years to come.
While most are unaware of the plan, The Appalachian encourages students to get involved in its creational process.
Granted,
the strategic plan’s effects will be felt mostly in the long run,
students should take stock in how their university will look once they
have left the school and entered into the real world.
Furthermore, the new plan will hopefully propel the university to even greater heights.
At the strategic planning open forum last semester, Provost Stan R.
Aeschleman compared Appalachian State alongside peer institutions by
SAT scores such as Miami University of Ohio, the College of Charleston
and James Madison University.
Already, it is nice to see Appalachian alongside such reputable
universities. The new strategic plan will only help to improve our
university’s image.
Aeschleman also outlined the new strategic direction for the University
of North Carolina system, which included helping transform the economy
of North Carolina through, among other things, high quality degree
programs.
Appalachian’s strategic plan will surely encompass these ideas in an
effort to help create quality workers who will bolster both the North
Carolina and U.S. economies.
Though the strategic plan will be long in the making, it will yield great results if carried out successfully.
LLC arsonists: grow up
Since February 2006, there have been four arson incidents in the Living
Learning Center where bulletin boards have been burned while hanging on
the wall.
These pranks transcend normal, college tricks and could potentially cause serious harm to others.
The Appalachian urges whoever knows any information regarding the
vandalism to come forward to authorities so these acts do not happen
again.
Though you are in college and have the freedom to do what you want,
when your choices begin to adversely affect others, then that freedom
is taken away.
In the most recent incident, LLC residents had to wait outside for
nearly three hours while fire and police authorities swept through the
building.
Furthermore, if the LLC’s sprinklers were to go off, it would amount to thousands of dollars of property damage.
To be blunt: grow up.
You’re in college now and lighting things on fire should have lost its luster in third grade.
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