The Future Series is a series of dynamic summits that will set the conditions for our disciplined work together. Each summit must feature broad participation by our students, faculty, and staff.  In addition, they will include pre-readings and resources, a keynote address, facilitated activities, and opportunities for reflection that are  designed to help us arrive at understandings and to generate ideas that position our liberal arts mission and our public good as a state college as both guide and ballast throughout this process.

• Monday, November 15, 2021 | 1:00PM-2:15PM | Trustees Pavilion
  

  U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Laura Potter, Deputy Chief of Staff G-2, poses for her official portrait in the Army portrait studio at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va, Sept. 15, 2020. (U.S. Army photo by William Pratt)

• Keynote Speaker: Lieutenant General Laura Potter, US Army. LTG Potter is the highest ranking military officer in the US Army.
• Program:
  • I. Welcome; II. Fireside Chat with Keynote Speaker and President Jebb; III. Question & Answer; IV. Small Group Facilitated Activity and Report Out; V. Closing Remarks
• Pre-readings/Resources:
  • Good to Great for the Social Sector by Jim Collins (get pdf)  
  • Courtney, H. Kirkland, J., Viguerie, P. (2005) Strategy Under Uncertainty. Harvard Business Review. (get article)
• Small Group Facilitated Activity (get activity)
• Attendees are encouraged to wear their name badge if they have one.
• Pre-registration was required by November 12.
• Post-event resources and feedback forms are available on the Office of the President Intranet Site.

Leslie T. Fenwick, Ph.D.

• Thursday, December 2, 2021 |1:00PM-2:15PM | Trustees Pavilion
• Keynote Speakers: Leslie T. Fenwick, Ph.D., Dean Emerita of the Howard University School of Education and Professor of Education Policy; and H. Patrick Swygert, J.D., President Emeritus of Howard University and Professor of Law
• Program:
  • I. Welcome; II. Fireside Chat with Dr. Fenwick, Mr. Swygert, and President Jebb; III. Question & Answer; IV. Small Group Facilitated Activity and Report Out; V. Closing Remarks
• Pre-readings/Resources:
  • Good to Great for the Social Sector by Jim Collins (get pdf) 
    

    H. Patrick Swygert, J.D.

  • Gallagher, T. (2021). The Democratic Imperative for Higher Education: Empowering Students to Become Active Citizens. AAC&U. Liberal Education Magazine. (get article)
  • Interview with Yuval Noah Harari: The Power of Data, Artificial Intelligence and the Future of the Human Race. (Oct.31, 2021) 60 Minutes. (get interview)
  • The Importance of Character in Education featuring Lorraine Abbott. (July 2016). TEDxPutneyHighSchool. (get talk) 
  • Cultural Competence: An Important Skillset for the 21st Century (Feb. 2016). NebGuide. (get article)
• Small Group Facilitated Activity (get activity)
• Attendees are encouraged to wear their name badge if they have one.
• Pre-registration was required by November 30.
• Post-event resources and feedback forms are available on the Office of the President Intranet Site.

• Wednesday, December 8, 2021 |12:00PM-1:00PM | Trustees Pavilion 1
• To attend this event in person, pre-registration was required by December 6.

• Monday, March 7, 2022 | 1:00PM-2:45PM| Trustees Pavilion
• Pre-readings/Resources: TBA
• Keynote Speaker(s): Pat Wadors ’87, Chief People Officer, Procore
• Program: TBA
• Attendees are encouraged to wear their name badge if they have one.

• Spring 2022
• Pre-readings/Resources: TBA
• Keynote Speaker(s): TBA
• Program: TBA
• Attendees are encouraged to wear their name badge if they have one.

Shaped, in part, by what we learn from The Future Series, running parallel is our Needs Statement Process. The Needs Statement Process will serve to ignite the passion across our community with the opportunity to develop and advocate for centers, programs, initiatives and projects that attract external resources, lead toward a better understanding of issues that affect the lives of citizens in the 21st Century, and that widen and deepen the reputation of our College.

Needs Statements Submissions

With passions ignited, the Needs Statement Process will help us identify priority needs and eventually secure resources from gifts and other potential sources. This is an all hands on deck opportunity to collaborate across disciplines, departments, and divisions.

The College’s current Facilities Master Plan was completed in 2013 and, in the past several years, much has been achieved through it—the recent completion and opening of the Peter P. Mercer Learning Commons, for example! This year we begin a Campus Master Planning process that will also be shaped by what we learn about the future – our context, by what emerges through the needs statement process – our passion, and in turn, by what we envision together for our campus environment. Stay tuned!  

How Ramapo College engages as a community during this 2021-2022 Strategic Planning Process will determine our future. Through The Future Series, we will explore our context. We will allow those contextual learnings to ignite our passion and inform the proposals that come forward through our Needs Statement Process. And, through our Campus Master Planning, we will envision together an environment in which our learnings, our passions, and our purpose as a public liberal arts college will be nurtured.

What we learn, what drives us, and what grounds us will comprise the ingredients of our next Strategic Plan and we will be poised, together, to make a bold impact.