Improving our capacity to achieve our mission...limited only by our imagination.

Looking to the future we will most intently focus on:

1.)  Ensuring that students and the student experience are the primary focus of our attention.

  Suggestions:

• Create an admissions strategy that balances our tradition of open enrollment with limited capacity, aimed at attracting whom we want in the numbers we want.
• Provide more housing in a quality campus environment.
• Provide ample quality advising and counseling services, both academic and personal.
• Educate the whole person (international study opportunities, more closely integrated general education curriculum, fitness programs, etc.)
• Provide "high tech" administrative services online (registration, financial aid).
• Provide web content and services in an integrated, consistent, coherent, and dynamic framework to support the college mission, its business practices, and its strategic initiatives.
• Address overcrowding; acquire major new building within five years.
• Provide state-of-the-art educational facilities.
• Create more common spaces for students (student union, ensemble and performance spaces, exercise facilities, etc.)
• Provide access to majors and classes of choice.
• Become the leading accredited online music college.
• Improve the sense of connection students and alumni feel to Berklee as an institution.
• Provide opportunity for student and faculty exchanges with domestic and international educational institutions (semester abroad programs, etc.)
• Plan acquisition of new facilities to build a sense of place—a Berklee campus.

2.)  Providing world class faculty and teaching methods

  Suggestions:

• Recruit, develop, and retain faculty at the cutting-edge of contemporary music, technology, and production.
• Target diverse, world-class faculty candidates, and bring them to Berklee.
• Conduct a comprehensive review of the first and second year core music curriculum (Arranging, Ear Training, Harmony, Music Technology.)
• Provide more experiential learning and internship opportunities.
• Improve the caliber of faculty/student interaction.
• Increase cross-departmental interaction, teaching and cooperation.

3.)  Accessibility and diversity

  Suggestions:

• Ensure Berklee is an open, welcoming, and inclusive culture for people of color and women.
• Create a more diverse community. Set recruitment goals for students, faculty, and staff.
• Address gender equity. Set recruitment goals for students, faculty, and staff.
• Ensure Berklee is an open, welcoming, and inclusive culture for people of different religious beliefs, sexual orientation, abilities, cultures, learning styles, and musical preferences.
• Provide ample tools (scholarships, loans, etc.), making Berklee accessible to all.
• Provide full tuition, room and board scholarships to talented students who would not otherwise be able to attend.
• Recruit, retain and graduate a diverse student body.

4.)  Governance, culture, and visibility

  Suggestions:

• Build a board with the capacity and vision to enable greatness.
• Raise funds at a level commensurate to our ambitions and needs.
• Launch the college’s first capital fundraising campaign.
• Empower all community voices in decision-making.
• Decentralize decision-making authority: Generally let those closest to the situation make the decision.
• Create a performance appraisal system that rewards achievement.
• Continually assess and improve the status of morale, culture, and fairness.
• Host high-impact symposiums; establish Berklee as the premier authority on matters relating to music and music education.
• Deliver outspoken views on contemporary music, worthy of international media focus.