ABSTRACT
Center visions that emerge out of specific events sometimes can be conceived narrowly but may provide critical information to guide new center visioning. The director's center vision, if well formulated through a collaborative and investigative process, requires careful planning for communicating the vision and enacting the change it conveys. Rather than hide a new vision for the center, the new center vision needs strong images when they are introduced. Enacting the center vision by connecting the center vision and mission to the institutional strategic plan has the advantage of making the center's role known across administrative units. A wise, and more senior advisory board member warned the author that some current activities and programing may need to be eliminated in order to achieve other long-term systematic goals. With careful planning for implementation of the new center vision, priorities can to be assessed carefully and work load changes anticipated and handled proactively.
