Led by President Joyce F. Brown in 2004-05, the college community embarked upon a yearlong strategic planning process in order to explore key questions of institutional identity and frame a vision of the FIT of tomorrow. The project, called 2020: FIT at 75, Bringing the Future into Focus, promises to be both challenging and invigorating, and will provide a framework of goals and initiatives for the next ten to fifteen years.

In the past, such planning efforts at FIT have focused on—and met—many of the college’s basic needs. Now it is time to more fully imagine its place in the world at large.

Articulating that vision requires an unprecedented amount of energy, imagination, and interaction from each facet of the college community. “I firmly believe that a strategic plan can only work when it is branded with the community stamp,” President Brown said. The process, which is being facilitated by The Learning Alliance, stresses community-wide participation and communication and focuses on identifying goals and initiatives to help FIT continue to fulfill its mission in a changing world.

Where will FIT be—what will FIT be—15, 25, or even 60 years from today? It’s time to write FIT’s story for tomorrow.