Q: What is the CFMP plan?
A: The Campus Facilities Master Plan (CFMP) is a series of study documents by which physical facility needs are identified to upgrade the university as well as to change and grow the university long-term. It is an element of the overall Operational Plan (OP) of the university.
Q. What other elements are included in the OP?
A. The Business Model and Management Plan (BMMP): the plan by which the university operates day-to-day. The Capital Campaign (CC): is a campaign by which personal relationships of the university are nurtured and encouraged, supporter interests are clarified, and financial resources are generated to implement content of the CFMP.
Q. How does the CFMP work with the 5-year Strategic Plan?
A. The 5- year Strategic Plan is an on-going and evolving document that provides specific, attainable, and measurable goals for the university. The Strategic Plan explains why the university must change and move forward within its mission and vision and what changes and improvements are proposed. The CFMP documents how these changes will progress and how these changes will look on campus
Q. Why do we need a CFMP?
A. In order for the university to have a coherent vision of what changes and additions made to the facilities of campus and be able to share this vision broadly with constituency groups, student organizations, faculty groups, and customers of the university’s services, we must first have a documented plan.
Q. What is already underway?
A. After researching and contacting 25 prospective campus master planning architectural companies the CFPM development committee narrowed their search down to 5 companies. From there the committee interviewed 3 of the 5 companies and toured various campuses that each company had worked on. Late last year the campus master planning architectural firm, Design Collaborative Inc. was chosen to help Concordia move into the future. Design Collaborative Inc. has toured our campus and spoken with various students and members of our faculty and staff to get a better feel of who Concordia is. You can visit their website at
www.designcollaborativeinc.com.
Q. How is the CFMP being funded?
A. Funding for the CFMP is provided by revenue from the sale of university land.
Q. Who are the constituency and customers of the CFMP?
A. The constituency and customers of the CFMP are as follows: traditional, accelerated degree program, lifelong learning program and graduate students, prospective students and their peers and relatives, student advisors and parents, university faculty, the University Board of Regents, officials, offices and membership of the English, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio Districts, and officials of the LCMS Board for University Education, Synod membership at large, prospective employers of University graduates, university administration and staff, alumni ,the past, present and future support and financial donor base, regulatory organizations and permitting agencies, benefactors of the university mission, friends of the university and those who may become friends in the local community and nearby region.
Q. When will the initial draft of the CFMP be complete?
A. The initial draft of the CFMP will be developed during the winter and spring of 2006. The completed initial draft will be submitted to the president and cabinet by June 30, 2006 and to the Board of Regents by August 30, 2006.
