Daily Bulletin, Tuesday, October 18, 1994

WRITING A PLAN:  The president of UW last summer set up a "Commission on
Institutional Planning" to "shape a new plan for the university's
development". The first task of the Commission is to review the UW mission 
statement. The mission statement is meant to set out the essential 
character and aspiration of the university as it is felt and understood 
by faculty, staff, students, alumni and friends of UW.  

The commission is issuing a bulletin this week which notes that "Consultation
with all these groups is vital to this process.  At this time we invite 
your suggestions and opinions on UW's current mission statement as 
articulated in the report Planning for the Fourth Decade.  Please submit 
your comments to any member of the Commission by the first week of November."

The mission statement from the Fourth Decade report, which UW adopted in
1987, can be found on UWinfo.  Look under the Daily Bulletin heading and
"Documents of Current Interest" subheading.
   
The commission is chaired by UW provost Jim Kalbfleisch.  Other members:

   Gordon Andrews, mechanical engineering faculty member
   Susan Bellingham, library
   Rose Bilicic, undergraduate student
   Gail Cuthbert Brandt, principal, Renison College
   Doug McMullen, alumnus
   Bruce Mitchell, geography faculty member
   Prabhakar Ragde, computer science faculty member
   Susan Shaw, recreation and leisure studies faculty member
   Eric Sutherland, graduate student, statistics
   Lynne Taylor, history faculty member
   John Thompson, dean of science
   Joanne Wade, registrar's office

Staff support for the commission is provided by Heather White, executive
assistant to the provost (phone ext. 5466, e-mail heather@provost-admin).

UNITED WAY pledges are off to a good start.  As of last Thursday, staff,
faculty, retirees and graduate students had already contributed $55,258
towards this year's goal of $150,000, says campaign chair Helen Kilbride.

HAPPENING TODAY:  Andre Killan, high commissioner of South Africa, speaks
on "Nelson Mandela's South Africa", tonight at 7:30 in Needles Hall
room 3001.

The ad hoc committee on harassment and discrimination holds the last of
its public sessions at 12:30 today (Arts Lecture room 113).  Undergraduate
students are particularly invited to comment on the issues facing the
committee -- possible improvements and "rationalization" to the policies,
procedures and committees that handle discrimination and unethical
behaviour at UW.

Chris Redmond
Information and Public Affairs, University of Waterloo
888-4567 ext. 3004      credmond@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca