Strategic Directions: University Strategic Plan 2006-2015
[2009-10 Update Based on SPARC Refresh in Previous Year]
January 13, 2010
By providing strategic directions for planning at Colorado State, the University Strategic Plan outlines the institution's major priorities and the university-level outcomes against which our performance will be measured. The University's three-year planning cycle is designed to assure wide-based campus input into institutional budgets and priorities and to support budgeting that is tied to University strategic planning efforts in a transparent and coherent way. It includes a regular schedule for periodic updates of the strategic plan to reflect new priorities, new environments, new opportunities, and new ideas.
Strategic Directions: Colorado State University Strategic Plan 2006-2015 (PDF)
This document is organized around five broad objectives:
Strategic Planning Area 1: Teaching and Learning
Strategic Planning Area 2: Research and Discovery
Strategic Planning Area 3: Outreach and Engagement
Strategic Planning Area 4: Resources and Support
Strategic Planning Area 5: Diversity
Consistent with the university's mission statement, sections are devoted to teaching and learning, research and discovery, and service and outreach. The fourth section addresses financial and other resources critical to supporting CSU's mission. Finally, reflecting our commitment to diversity, a final section outlines how plans to achieve the institution’s diversity goals.
In total, we have identified 40 specific goals related to these objectives and a number of strategies related to achievement of the goals. From this university-level outline, administrative divisions, colleges, departments and specialized units are encouraged to develop more detailed courses of action in unit plans that, collectively, will constitute the university's strategic plan.