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3Our strategic plan is set to expire in 2010. This means that in Fall2009, we will need to begin anew to create a strategic plan for thecollege. The timing should work well for us in terms of theuniversity as ODU’s new President will no doubt also bedeveloping a plan at that time. This plan will continue us alongthe path we began in 2003, and will include our strategies forbecoming great.So, as in the past, I will summarize our accomplishments for theyear using a Scorecard tied to the nine goals (which are based on aBalanced Scorecard approach because we do try to practice whatwe teach) we identified in our 2005-2010 Strategic Plan. I’ll thentalk about our plans for the coming year. The goals in ourStrategic plan concern the people and processes that make up ourCollege. The first two goals relate to students.Goal One - Improve qualifications of incoming students inundergraduate and graduate programs.There are three elements to building a better business school, or agreat one. They are students, faculty, and programs/processes.Undergraduate admissions are at the university level but to enterour college, students do need to earn a grade of C in four corecourses. Our college does set student admission standards for ourgraduate programs. GRAD STATS SLIDE We track these eachyear in our CBPA Scorecard and you can see the data on yoursheet. There has not been any large movement in scores, but weare generally satisfied with the quality of our graduate studentpopulation.Enrollments in the college and university are increasing, withsome degree programs and majors gaining students and others