Making Sense of the Issues

Each data-gathering team was asked to review their own data and do some preliminary “coding” or categorization.  New teams were then formed around preliminary topics (e.g., People & Communication, Campus & Area, Academics, etc.).  These new teams were charged with doing extensive data-mining to determine concepts that emerged across data-gathering sessions, strategies, and stakeholders.  Short papers describing each concept were then written by the teams and reviewed by the entire council. These concept papers are available for revew below: