Beginning in the Summer of 1994, the university undertook steps to define and recommend changes and reforms (C&R) to better equip it to meet significant internal and external challenges. The C&R recommendations served as mandates for action, the implementation of which will be sustained through their key linkages to university strategic planning in the identification, development and prioritization of strategies. This broad-based self-study and subsequent recommendations for implementation were intended to sustain and improve university programs and activities in both pragmatic and philosophical terms.