When we began our planning process in May 2009, we set out to accomplish two important objectives: one, to develop an institutional culture of planning that fosters strategic thinking and influences all decision making, resource allocation, and assessment efforts; and the other, which would be appropriately fitting to such a culture, to develop a plan that is an agile, living document based on our core educational values and realities of our current and future contexts. Our journey is chronicled in the following pages.