Goals of Institutional Strategic Planning
- Articulate a common vision, values, and priorities
- Identify short and long-term goals
- Establish benchmarks to measure progress
- Establish public accountability reporting
- Determine how resources and energies are directed
- Give us all an opportunity for important conversations – reconnecting and re-envisioning our futures as we return to campus
A new Strategic Plan enables an institution to capitalize on opportunities to grow and thrive – opportunities that we as a community decide are important to us.
Planning Process: Guiding Principles
- Be inclusive, engage the campus and community
- Ensure lived experiences and goals of diverse communities are key to planning so that the ultimate strategic plan fosters an increasingly just, inclusive, equitable, and welcoming campus
- Provide opportunities for the campus community to listen, learn and share
- Strive for transparency through extensive and timely communications and numerous opportunities for input and feedback
- Emphasize a process that encourages collective learning, supported by research and analyses drawing on multiple sources and forms of data.
- Build stronger community engagement
- Be inspirational, focus on excellence, impact, and growth
- Be practical and recognize that in some cases a phased approach may be necessary