Strategic Planning Update – Proposed Goals, Vision and Values Available for Review

Dear NC State community —

The Strategic Planning Executive Steering Committee has been meeting regularly over the last few months to review the content of task force reports and define overlapping themes to create high-level strategic planning goals that will guide the university over the next 10 years. As previously communicated, the task force reports were posted in September. 

These nine reports were created via open meetings involving more than 160 faculty, staff and student task force members, and were available for campus review and comment. The comments submitted were made available to the steering committee, who integrated them into their ongoing work. In addition, as part of the process of creating the university’s next strategic plan, the steering committee proposed revised vision and value statements. NC State’s mission statement was adopted by the Board of Trustees in April 2011 and will not be revised at this time.

With this communication, we are sharing this high-level executive summary of NC State’s proposed 2021-2030 vision, values and strategic plan goals for your review and feedback. Please take the time to review this document and beginning in late January we will hold listening sessions to hear your thoughts on this summary. We plan to hold these as open sessions in addition to meeting with specific groups such as Student Senate, Faculty Senate and Staff Senate. More information on these sessions will be shared in the near future. We will then take feedback from these sessions and incorporate it into the final strategic planning document. 

We had initially planned to present this final document to the Board of Trustees for review and endorsement at the February meeting, but in an effort to engage the community via listening sessions and provide plenty of time for feedback, we have decided to present at the April Board of Trustees meeting. 

Thank you for your ongoing support of and participation in the creation of NC State’s next strategic plan. If you have specific questions about strategic planning and the current process, please email strategic-planning@ncsu.edu.

Sincerely,

Warwick Arden
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
Co-Chair University Strategic Planning

Margery Overton
Senior Vice Provost for Institutional Strategy and Analysis
Co-Chair University Strategic Planning