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SUNY Oswego�Strategic Planning Update

January 12, 2024

Liz Schmitt, Co-Chair

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Strategic Planning in Higher Education

  • Aka, “Why, Liz, why?”
  • Do not rely on serendipity for success!
  • Planning gives us
    • The priorities for our institution
    • The lens for institutional decision-making
    • The framework for our operations
    • The metrics to measure our progress

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Several guiding documents inform this process

  • Vision 4040: Expanding SUNY Oswego’s Promise
  • Our current mission and vision
  • Our current institutional priorities
  • SUNY’s Four Pillars
  • Postsecondary Value Commission
    • Ensuring Equitable Postsecondary Value: An Action Agenda

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Connections

Oz Priorities

  • Student Success
  • Academic & Creative Excellence
  • Inclusive Community
  • Partnerships

SUNY Pillars

  • Student Success
  • Research and Scholarship
  • DEI
  • Econ Dev and Upward Mobility

PSVC

  • Equalize Access
  • Remove Affordability as an Impediment
  • Eliminate Completion Gaps and Strengthen Post-College Outcomes
  • Promote Social Justice

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Where are we in the process?

  • Town Hall Launch, November 13
  • Steering Committee meetings (2)
  • Established subcommittee categories
  • Subcommittee invitations this week
  • Subcommittee meetings with our consultants next week

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Our “Anchors” (subcommittees)

  1. Equity Informed Student Success
  2. A Vibrant Faculty and Staff
  3. Resourcing for Sustainable Growth
  4. A Regional Presence
  5. Cultivating a Reputation for Excellence

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Equity Informed Student Success

  • Maximize student opportunities to learn, with the knowledge, skills, and experiences to allow them to be successful �
  • Done through a lens of equity and inclusiveness to address achievement gaps, and to include all our students

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What do you think is important in this area?

e.g., Focus, goal, metric

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A Vibrant Faculty and Staff

  • Cornerstone of a thriving university community
  • Excellence in creative and scholarly pursuits
  • Recruitment and retention of faculty and staff that represent our students
  • Faculty and staff well-being
  • Faculty and staff as models and mentors

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What do you think is important in this area?

e.g., Focus, goal, metric

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Resourcing for Sustainable Growth

  • Optimize educational offerings
  • Workforce and community needs
  • New/expanded programs need resources—human, financial
  • Funding, revising, and designing a vibrant curriculum

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What do you think is important in this area?

e.g., Focus, goal, metric

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A Regional Presence

  • Opportunity and responsibility to link to local and regional communities
  • Intellectual, educational, cultural, and entertainment resources
  • Source of expertise
  • Training and development activities

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What do you think is important in this area?

e.g., Focus, goal, metric

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Cultivating a Reputation for Excellence

  • We KNOW what we offer
    • An education of exceptional quality
    • Transformative experiences
    • Upward mobility
    • Alumni leaders, innovators, artists …
  • We deserve a reputation that matches this
    • Purposeful actions and practices
    • Leverage for resources, enrollment

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What do you think is important in this area?

e.g., Focus, goal, metric

Have we left something out?

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Expected Outputs for the Anchors

  • Approximately 10 goals/outcomes
  • Articulate strategies and tactics for accomplishing the goals/outcomes
  • How to measure our progress towards these goals

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Meet the Consultants!

  • AASCU Facilitators
  • Dr. Timothy Mottet
    • President Emeritus, CSU Pueblo
  • Dr. John Jasinski
    • President Emeritus, NW MO State Univ
    • Provost, Missouri State Univ

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Role of the Facilitators

  • Guide the plan development process
  • Connect elements to PSVC elements
  • Help operationalize the plan
  • Keep us on task and focused

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Next steps

  • Anchor subcommittees meet with the consultants next week
  • The consultants facilitate focus groups in January/February
    • Virtual sessions week of January 29
    • Onsite February 7
    • Organized by Anchor
    • Special sessions for external groups and students

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Please come to a focus group!

  • What kinds of outcomes are important for this Strategic Anchor?
  • How do we move towards that outcome?
  • What are the challenges in reaching these outcomes?

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Questions or comments?