PREFACE TO PART II

          The Committee for University Strategic Planning (CUSP)
     provided leadership in the development and completion of Part I of Kent
     State University's Strategic Plan in February 1994.  This document
     represented a response to the Ohio Board of Regents' request that all state-
     assisted universities develop and submit a Functional Mission Statement. 
     This document was circulated throughout all sectors of the University for
     review and comment prior to its formal endorsement by the University's
     Board of Trustees on January 27, 1994.  It was presented to the Regents
     and to the University community with the understanding that a
     complementary planning document for the service and support divisions
     would be forthcoming.
     
          Part I of the Strategic Plan addresses the mission and strategic
     goals of the Academic and Student Affairs division.  Part II sets forth the
     missions and goals of the service and support divisions and Intercollegiate
     Athletics--with particular focus on those initiatives which directly support
     the academic mission of Kent State University.  Much of what is done by
     the service and support divisions in support of the academic mission is
     reflected in the ongoing operations of the departments and units which
     constitute these divisions.  Thus, it is not appropriate to characterize this
     effort as a new or emerging initiative.  This document focuses on those
     operations which have changed, or are changing, to meet the emerging
     needs of the University.
     
          The chapters that follow, University Image, Human
     Resources, Internal Communications, Fiscal Integrity, Quality and
     Efficiency, Development, Physical Resources, Safety, Health, and
     Access, and Technology, represent unifying strategic themes within and
     among the service and support divisions.  The interdivisional
     initiatives emphasized in these chapters are presented as distinct from the
     seventeen major initiatives set forth in Part I of the Strategic Plan because
     of their centrality to the functions and responsibilities of the service and
     support divisions.  They are not presented in any priority order.
     
          The chapter entitled Interdivisional Support for Part I Initiatives
     addresses the reciprocal relationship between the seventeen major
     initiatives for the next three to five years and the functions of the service
     and support divisions.  A few of these initiatives imply no direct change or
     response.