Reporter Volume 25, No.10 November 4, 1993

By ANN WHITCHER
Reporter Editor

Discussion of strategic planning for the university and an ideal set
of new construction projects highlighted President Greiner's
appearance Oct. 26 before the Professional Staff Senate in University
Inn and Conference Center.
	Greiner noted the current process of review and redefinition
under way following his Sept. 14 address to the Voting Faculty and
Provost Aaron N. Bloch's Oct. 5 talk before the Faculty Senate. "I
tried to lay the foundation for some strategic thinking as the
university marches toward the next century," Greiner said.
	The process continues Nov. 16 at 2 p.m. in 200 The Commons
with a public forum featuring the president, Provost Bloch and Senior
Vice President Robert J. Wagner during a meeting of the Faculty
Senate. 
	"We really have to think ahead and lay the foundation for the
process of development over the next ten years," Greiner said, "in
which we do a little bit of additional capital development on the two
campuses." 
	While there will likely be some physical capital to "round out
the two campuses," Greiner said, "the real investment over the next
ten years, I think, has to be in human resources, the human capital.
That means developing and helping the people we have on board to
develop. I really do think that the smart universities over the next
decade will begin to look much more carefully and strategically at
human resources and at developing faculty and staff."
	Asked what he would do if he had the resources to create the
ideal physical plant, Greiner cited the need for a Student Services
Building to allow students in a large university to do "one-stop
shopping" for such services as registration.
	"We need a building for Mathematics," he added. "We must move
the Math Department from the South Campus. In that process, we would
also provide consolidated space for the Department of Computer
Science. And we would also use this opportunity, in Phase II of the
Natural Sciences and Math Complex, to build a complete home for the
Department of Geological Sciences." Geological Sciences is located at
Ridge Lea; Computer Sciences now occupies various locations on the
North Campus.
	Important, too, in long-range planning, said Greiner, is
another science tower on the North Campus with modular labs. This
would free space now occupied by temporary buildings, he said.
	"Continuing down the road, we need to bring the Architecture
School onto the North Campus," Greiner told the capacity audience.
"It's the right thing to do academically," he said. This building is
projected for the area just south of The Commons, to the west of the
Fine Arts Center, and to the north of Clemens and Baird Halls.
	Greiner also described long-range plans to bring together
departments in the Faculty of Social Sciences and also relieve
pressure on the libraries as more units move from the South to the
North Campus. Important, too, he said, is the manner in which newly
available space on the South Campus is used in the future. (A South
Campus master plan process is now under way.)
	The question-and-answer session also covered such topics as
classroom scheduling, parking, development needs of professional
staff, and South Campus rehabilitation concerns.