Strategic Plan - Claremont Graduate University
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Strategic Plan - Claremont Graduate University
Goal 1
Enhance Student Success
through strong academic programs, expanded pedagogies, and meaningful learning outcomes and supportive processes and services that proactively address student needs.
Long-Term Objectives:
Ensure a great academic experience, with meaningful learning outcomes, including success in chosen fields and professions.
Be leaders in student retention and engagement.
Magnify CGU’s distinctive success-centered programs.
Goal 2
Expand Impact, Quality, and Visibility
through research, scholarship, innovation, and creative work.
Long-Term Objectives:
Recognize, incentivize, and invest in areas of academic strength and mission while increasing visibility and brand awareness.
Expand research and creative opportunities, grant activity, collaborations, and infrastructure.
Facilitate innovation in developing high-quality programs.
Goal 3
Engage the Global Community
with integrity to make the university more connected, responsive, and impactful.
Long-Term Objectives:
Seek academic partnerships locally, nationally, and globally to extend our impact through research, creative works, teaching, and community outreach.
Earn recognition as a place where students and faculty provide and integrate diverse perspectives, cultures, and skills in the search for knowledge to address a rapidly changing and increasingly complex world.
Instill in CGU graduates the confidence and capacity to apply transdisciplinary mindsets and approaches that impact local and global transformation.
Goal 4
Foster an Academic Community of Inclusive Excellence.
Long-Term Objectives:
Prioritize diversity planning and the implementation of initiatives that positively and measurably impact the campus community.
Promote the recruitment, retention, success, and full participation of diverse faculty, staff, students, alumni, and trustees.
Foster a sense of respect and just practice across the campus while promoting research, creative work, and community outreach that impact positive social change.
Goal 5
Build a Sustainable Learning Organization
that is fiscally responsible in its commitment and delivery of lifelong learning, and that has a meaningful, lasting impact on the lives of students and employees, as well as the professions and global communities served.
Long-Term Objectives:
Grow and optimize student enrollment to achieve our goals.
Strengthen and diversify our financial base in keeping with our mission.
Prioritize the development of leadership, faculty, and staff capacity.
Goal 6
Implement a Bold Advancement Agenda
that supports student success and access and enhances research and scholarly work through effective outreach that reinforces CGU’s institutional brand.
Long-Term Objectives:
Be clear about who we are and what we do at CGU: Tell our story.
Identify and support key university priorities including research, student access and success, physical plant, partnerships, and alumni fund-raising.
Deepen engagement with and cultivate loyalty among alumni and the wider CGU network – including students, faculty, staff, emerit faculty, trustees, and friends.
The strategic plan was approved by the CGU Board of Trustees on March 8, 2020.
Goal 1
Enhance Student Success
through strong academic programs, expanded pedagogies, and meaningful learning outcomes and supportive processes and services that proactively address student needs.
Long-Term Objectives:
Ensure a great academic experience, with meaningful learning outcomes, including success in chosen fields and professions.
Be leaders in student retention and engagement.
Magnify CGU’s distinctive success-centered programs.
Goal 2
Expand Impact, Quality, and Visibility
through research, scholarship, innovation, and creative work.
Long-Term Objectives:
Recognize, incentivize, and invest in areas of academic strength and mission while increasing visibility and brand awareness.
Expand research and creative opportunities, grant activity, collaborations, and infrastructure.
Facilitate innovation in developing high-quality programs.
Goal 3
Engage the Global Community
with integrity to make the university more connected, responsive, and impactful.
Long-Term Objectives:
Seek academic partnerships locally, nationally, and globally to extend our impact through research, creative works, teaching, and community outreach.
Earn recognition as a place where students and faculty provide and integrate diverse perspectives, cultures, and skills in the search for knowledge to address a rapidly changing and increasingly complex world.
Instill in CGU graduates the confidence and capacity to apply transdisciplinary mindsets and approaches that impact local and global transformation.
Goal 4
Foster an Academic Community of Inclusive Excellence.
Long-Term Objectives:
Prioritize diversity planning and the implementation of initiatives that positively and measurably impact the campus community.
Promote the recruitment, retention, success, and full participation of diverse faculty, staff, students, alumni, and trustees.
Foster a sense of respect and just practice across the campus while promoting research, creative work, and community outreach that impact positive social change.
Goal 5
Build a Sustainable Learning Organization
that is fiscally responsible in its commitment and delivery of lifelong learning, and that has a meaningful, lasting impact on the lives of students and employees, as well as the professions and global communities served.
Long-Term Objectives:
Grow and optimize student enrollment to achieve our goals.
Strengthen and diversify our financial base in keeping with our mission.
Prioritize the development of leadership, faculty, and staff capacity.
Goal 6
Implement a Bold Advancement Agenda
that supports student success and access and enhances research and scholarly work through effective outreach that reinforces CGU’s institutional brand.
Long-Term Objectives:
Be clear about who we are and what we do at CGU: Tell our story.
Identify and support key university priorities including research, student access and success, physical plant, partnerships, and alumni fund-raising.
Deepen engagement with and cultivate loyalty among alumni and the wider CGU network – including students, faculty, staff, emerit faculty, trustees, and friends.
The strategic plan was approved by the CGU Board of Trustees on March 8, 2020.