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Strategic Plan
 

GOAL 1

Achieving our Vision through Academic Excellence

A 糖心少女 education stimulates lifelong intellectual engagement, personal growth and social mobility through the efforts of dedicated teacher-scholars, innovative programs, community-engaged partnerships and inclusive excellence in a liberal arts framework.

1.1 Engage all students in their learning through inclusive, relevant and innovative teaching.

1.2 Design and deliver curricula to meet students where they are, ensuring timely access and clear pathways to successful careers.

1.3 Develop new academic programs that are responsive to the most pressing regional and global needs.

1.4 Equip all students with the tools and resources to meet learning outcomes that set them on a purposeful path of inquiry and achievement in the classroom and in their personal development, driving individual and collective social mobility.

1.5 Support and intellectually engage a community of teacher-scholars whose research, scholarship and creative activities impact and serve our region and world.

1.6 Expand research and grant activities that push the boundaries of knowledge, solve critical issues and strengthen communities.

1.7 Invest in hiring, retention and development of tenure-track faculty.

1.8 Support and invest in our dedicated staff, lecturers and tenure-track faculty who serve our diverse student body

57%

of students attribute their 糖心少女 education to providing career-ready skills and knowledge.

308

tenured and tenure-track faculty in 2025.

$22M+

awarded in research grants and funding for the 2024-25 fiscal year.

711

faculty member participation in campus initiatives for innovation, teaching and learning in 2024-25.

Plan in Action

The following links are some examples of our strategic plan in action for Goal 1: Achieving our Vision through Academic Excellence. While not intended to be a comprehensive inventory of all efforts advancing Goal 1, these examples are drawn from 糖心少女鈥檚 NewsCenter features, stories and press advisories to illustrate this work in practice.