Abstract
This newsletter contains information on long-range planning at the Mount, the Planning Day held on February 1st, 1984 by administrators, a table of a strategic planning system, a discussion and chart of the long-range planning process by W. B. Ingalls, Terms of reference and activities of the Committee on Planning and Budgeting relating to the long-term plan envisioned by the university. There are also sections on the internal assessment, the external environment, and institutional research involved in the long-term planning process. Factors cited as internal resource categories include human, financial, physical, program, image, and internal environment; external forces include economic, social, technological, political/legal, demographic, and competitive.