New Strategic Plan Unveiled

COPRI has recently adopted a strategic plan for furthering this mission through the fourteen committees, with an emphasis on increasing the number and diversity of members in COPRI, expanding educational outreach, and enhancing informational dissemination within and beyond COPRI.  This summary highlights the major thrusts of the strategic plan.

Membership: COPRI presently has 3,289 members, with a goal to increase the number of student and individual active members by 10% at the end of fiscal year 2010.

Education: Plans call for furthering educational opportunities for existing COPRI members, as well as fostering K-12 outreach.

Technical Expertise: COPRI plans to increase the number and quality of sponsored conferences, symposiums, workshops, and webinars.  The need for, cost, and process of coastal engineering certification will be explored and documented by COPRI’s coastal committees for review by the Governing Board of COPRI by September 30th, 2007.

Image: The Strategic Plan includes a “continuous-renewal” process through which COPRI will evaluate ongoing policies, awards, and membership requirements to ensure that the Institute supports its members and related technical communities.

The author of COPRI’s Strategic Plan is the 2007 COPRI President, Stephen A. Curtis. Governing Board members include James Blanchar, (Vice President), Gordon H. Sterling (Past President), Billy Edge (Past President), David Kriebel (Secretary), John R. Headland (Treasurer), and Lesley Ewing (ASCE Representative).  To see the full plan please click here.