Before announcing the goals of Cal State Fullerton’s Strategic Plan for 2024-2029, university President Sylvia Alva outlined the six values that served as a guide to develop the plan:
Student success, faculty and staff diversity, equity and inclusion, scholarly and creative activities, shared governance, and civic and community engagement.
Titled “Fullerton Forward,” the Strategic Plan for the next five years was presented Feb. 7 at the Meng Concert Hall with hundreds from the Titan community in attendance and more watching via livestream.
“These values point us in the direction to envision an even brighter future and the opportunity to be more strategic and mission-driven in our work,” Alva said. “Cal State Fullerton is an extraordinary place that serves as a model university where members of our community have come together to define who we are and, more importantly, who we want to become.”
To develop the Strategic Plan, the 52-member Strategic Plan Development Committee hosted 28 campus forums in 2023, inviting students, faculty, staff, administrators, community partners and alumni to share their ideas.
Co-chairs of the committee were sociology professor Eileen Walsh and Su Swarat, associate vice president of Institutional Effectiveness and Planning.
More than 5,600 individuals participated and responded with more than 3,600 entries of feedback by individuals and groups.
The five goals of the Strategic Plan for 2024-2029 are:
Enhance support for student access, learning and academic successFoster student engagement and well-beingRecruit, develop and retain high-quality and diverse faculty and staffExpand and strengthen physical and financial capacity and community relationsInnovate and improve campus operations
“The Strategic Plan is not one person’s plan,” Walsh said. “When we set out to envision how we will bring this plan together, the number one priority was for the committee to ensure that the plan reflects the diversity…
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