Announcing the TSA Strategic Plan

Dear Scholars,

As the Truman Scholars Association closes its 2010-2011 year, I wanted to share with you our 5-year strategic plan that the board has been working on all year.  Those of you that attended the 2011 National Conference have seen it, but to the rest of the community, keep reading.

Starting with a two-day in-person meeting in October, the board spent significant time developing a 5-year strategic plan for the organization.  This plan draws from where we have been as a community and guides us as we continue to grow and evolve.  I would like to thank former TSA board members, former Foundation Executive Secretary Fred Slabach (MS ’77), and Scholars in the community at large who put a great deal of thought into TSA as an organization.  Your comments, encouragement and vision contributed greatly to the final plan this board put to paper.  To this year’s board, thank you for taking on such a huge project on top of the National Conference.

TSA also started on some of its 5-year goals, including the Lost Scholars Project, TSA’s initiative to obtain updated contact information on all Scholars.  This year we updated contact information for over 100 Scholars in the Truman Scholars Database.  Thanks to Jane Rock Constanza (WY ’91) who helped with the project and to all of those of you who submitted updated contact information for Scholars on our website. 

TSA is an all-volunteer organization, and I am humbled by the commitment, passion and work that so many of you put into it.  We’ve done a lot this year as a community, and I’m proud to have been a part if it.  I hope this strategic plan will serve future boards well, and that you all will get involved with TSA at whatever level you can, be it the board, committees or small projects.

Sincerely,

Adair Ford Boroughs (SC ’01)

President

Truman Scholars Association

●  Collaborate closely with the Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation