Strategic Planning 2025

Strategic Planning 2025

Strategic Planning 2025

Current Strategic Priorities

Navigate through the Strategic Planning steps by clicking on the tabs below.

01

Getting Started

02

Listening Sessions

03

Strategic Planning Retreat

04

Core Values

05

Mission and Vision

06

Strategic Directions

Getting Started (September thru December 2024)

Pre-Strategic Planning Survey
Review and Selection of Planning Consultants
Strategic Planning Team formed
Meeting with Consultants · Strategic planning community ground rules and recommended practices established
Listening Sessions stakeholders identified

Listening Sessions (January thru February 2025)

2 x Student Success (Mixed Undergraduate and Graduate Students)
Student Success (Admin, faculty and staff who work in student support roles)
Student and Faculty Success, Engagement and Belonging (admin and staff who work in these roles)
Faculty Success (Kent and Regional Campus Faculty Members)
Faculty Success (Admin, Faculty and Staff who work in faculty support roles)
Research Success (Faculty, staff and administration)
Campus and Community Partners (Faculty, staff, admin and alumni in these roles)
The Provost

Strategic Planning Retreat (March 2025)

Listening Session Report Shared
Strategic Planning Values Survey
Seven Lightning Talks
1. Enshitification
2. True Champions Cheer For Each Other
3. Improv(ing) in a Flash
4. Digital Archives (Ecosystem)
5. The Rise of Evidence Sythesis
6. Critical Hope
7. AI: Artificial Intelligence
SOAR Exercise

Core Values (March thru April 2025)

All-Staff Living Your Values Exercise
Living Your Values Survey Administered
Core Values Drafted and Formalized

Mission and Vision (May 2025)

Develop New Mission and Vision Statements

Strategic Directions (June thru July 2025)

Four to five strategic directions developed
Lead goals identified
Community Goal Mapping and Sharing Meeting
Strategic Framework Complete