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              <titleproper>Guide to the Rhode Island College. Presidential Committees and Task Forces. Strategic Planning Committee records <date type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian" normal="1984/1985">1984-1985</date>
                    
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                <author>Finding aid prepared by Rey Plante.</author>
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                <publisher>Special Collections</publisher>
                <address>
                    <addressline>James P. Adams Library</addressline>
                    <addressline>Rhode Island College</addressline>
                    <addressline>600 Mount Pleasant Ave</addressline>
                    <addressline>Providence, RI, 02908</addressline>
                    <addressline>Tel: 401-456-9653</addressline>
                    <addressline>email:digitalcollections@ric.edu</addressline>
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                <date era="ce" calendar="gregorian" normal="2025" type="publication">2025 October</date>
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            <creation>This finding aid was encoded by Veronica L. Denison, <date era="ce" calendar="gregorian" normal="2025" type="publication">2025</date></creation>
            <langusage><language langcode="eng" scriptcode="Latn">English</language>English</langusage>
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            <unittitle type="primary">Rhode Island College. Presidential Committees and Task Forces. Strategic Planning Committee records</unittitle>
            <unittitle type="filing">Rhode Island College. Presidential Committees and Task Forces. Strategic Planning Committee records</unittitle>
            <unitid countrycode="US" repositorycode="US-RPRC"  type="collection">CA-0127</unitid>
            <repository><corpname>Special Collections, James P. Adams Library</corpname>
                <address>
                    <addressline>Rhode Island College</addressline>
                    <addressline>600 Mount Pleasant Ave</addressline>
                    <addressline>Providence, RI, 02908</addressline>
                    <addressline>Tel: 401-456-9653</addressline>
                    <addressline>email:digitalcollections@ric.edu</addressline>
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            <langmaterial><language langcode="eng" scriptcode="Latn">English</language></langmaterial>
            <physdesc><extent>0.25 cubic feet</extent></physdesc>
            <unitdate type="inclusive" era="ce" calendar="gregorian" normal="1984/1985">1984-1985</unitdate>
            
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                <corpname role="Creator (cre)">Rhode Island College. Presidential Committees and Task Forces. Strategic Planning Committee</corpname>
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            <abstract>The Rhode Island College Strategic Planning Committee records include organizational memorandums, progress reports, and perspectives on the success, importance, and progress of the committee. This stage of the strategic plan was to be implemented between 1984 and 1988. The documents in the collection are dated 1984-1985.</abstract>
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        <bioghist><head>Biographical/Historical Note</head>
            <p>The Strategic Planning Committee was initiated to improve the success and enrollment projections of the college. This stage of the strategic plan was to be implemented between 1984 and 1988. With the work of committee members and various departments across campus, a majority of the items in the master list were implemented over several years.</p>
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
            
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            <head>Collection information</head>
            <scopecontent>
                <p>This collection comprises organizational items for the Strategic Planning Committee at Rhode Island College, spanning its 1984-1988 phase of work. The collection dates between 1984 and 1985. Much of the collection includes memos organizing meetings and meeting agendas. The collection also includes the master list of strategic planning projects from 1984-1988, as well as various annotated lists marking progress and timeline changes, and progress reports from different departments. Finally, the collection includes memos from the Commissioner of Higher Education for the State of Rhode Island requesting updated enrollment projections for RIC, URI, and CCRI, as well as reports from those institutions.</p>
                
                
                
                
                
                
                
                
                
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            <userestrict><p>Rhode Island College holds copyright to materials in the collection. Researchers are advised to contact Rhode Island College Special Collections for questions regarding permissions to reproduce, distribute, or otherwise publish material from this collection.</p></userestrict>
            <accessrestrict><p>The collection is open for research.</p></accessrestrict>
            <prefercite><p>Rhode Island College. Presidential Committees and Task Forces. Strategic Planning Committee records, CA-0127, Special Collections, James P. Adams Library, Rhode Island College.</p></prefercite>
            <arrangement>
                <p>The collection is arranged in chronological order.</p>
   
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            <head>Administrative information</head>
            <acqinfo><p>The collection was in the holdings of Special Collections prior to 2019.</p></acqinfo>
            <processinfo><p>The collection was arranged and described by Rey Plante in 2025 under the supervision of Digital Archivist and Special Collections Librarian, Veronica L. Denison.</p></processinfo>
            
            
            
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            <head>Additional information</head>
            
            
            
            
            
            <altformavail><p>This collection has not been digitized and is not available online.</p></altformavail>
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                <head>Names</head>
                <persname source="lcnaf">Sweet, David E.</persname>
                <persname source="lcnaf">Olsen, Richard</persname>
                <persname source="lcnaf">DeLucia, Lenore Angela, 1936-</persname>
                <persname source="lcnaf">McMahon, Eleanor M.</persname>
                <persname source="lcnaf">Wright, Lola</persname>
                <corpname source="lcnaf">Rhode Island College (1960-)</corpname>
                <corpname source="lcnaf">Rhode Island College. Presidential Committees and Task Forces. Strategic Planning Committee</corpname>
                
                
                
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                <head>Subjects</head>
                <subject source="lcsh">Student enrollment</subject>
                <subject source="lcsh">Strategic planning</subject>
                
                
                
                <geogname source="lcsh">Providence (R.I.)</geogname>
                
                
                
                
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                <head>Types of Materials</head>
                <genreform source="aat">Administrative Reports</genreform>
                <genreform source="aat">Memorandum</genreform>
                
                
                
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