The PBC's primary role is to insure that the allocation of resources is consistent with planning priorities.  The Committee has identifiied four major goals to lead planning, which summarize to a large degree, the key Cornerstone objectives as identified in the May 2005 Cornerstone Plan.

1. Continue to raise the academic caliber of the College to stimulate the intellectual best in Trinity’s students and faculty and to attract promising and accomplished students and faculty from around the world.
2. Create a vibrant and diverse intellectual and residential environment that fosters transformative college experiences fostering critical thinking free of parochialism and prejudice and preparing students to lead lives that are personally satisfying, civically responsible, and socially useful.
3. Create innovative and sustainable curricular and co-curricular opportunities that are grounded in the College’s location in a diverse capital city and the College’s foreign programs and that prepare students to be responsible citizens of an increasingly urban and international world.
4. Strengthen and effectively manage and allocate financial, physical, and human resources to benefit students, faculty, and staff and to advance and sustain the mission and goals of the College.