Goal 1: Promote academic excellence at every level
� Increase the number of full-time faculty in proportion to student enrollment
� Balance academic resources with enrollment
� Develop strategies that enhance CSU�s graduate programs
� Fund library to the level of national benchmarks
� Maintain funding in CSU�s select mission areas
� Staff at least 75% of the sections of each core course with full time faculty
� Ensure that part-time faculty have access to university facilities and services necessary for quality instruction
� Expand opportunities for study abroad and international experiences
� Encourage life-long learning for the citizens of the region
Goal 2: Attract promising students; graduate educated citizens
� Promote high graduation rates through increasing freshman retention, meeting expectations of high achievers and providing
academic support services for all students
� Develop partnerships with public schools
� Recruit and enroll more students who are ranked at the top of their high school classes and who perform exceptionally well on the SAT/ACT
� Enhance First Year Experience programs and maintain a strong
Learning Support Program
� Develop a system to provide effective academic advising for all students
� Expand programs and services designed to develop students� leadership skills
Goal 3:
Attract, develop and retain outstanding faculty
� Adjust faculty salaries to national averages by 2011 and create a system to award meaningful merit pay
� Expand the scope of and financial support for faculty development in teaching, research, and service
� Increase faculty sabbatical opportunities
� Support academic freedom
Goal 4: Build a diverse and inclusive campus community
� Implement tangible strategies to attract minority faculty, especially African-Americans, to reflect the diversity of the student body
� Increase the international student population
� Develop strategies to ensure retention and success of minority students
� Foster a campus community that embraces differences among people
Goal 5: Improve the academic and social experiences of all students through comprehensive student services
� Adjust funding of non-academic student services to accommodate increasing enrollment
� Increase the services for the downtown campus
while maintaining existing campus services
� Ensure that programs and services reach residential, commuter,
non-traditional and distance learning students
� Ensure collaboration and communication among units providing student support services
Goal 6: Increase funding
� Broaden sources of private giving
� Increase grant applications and other funding opportunities
Goal 7:Demonstrate a commitment to excellence in the use of technology to deliver instruction, provide student services and enhance administrative functions.
� Ensure that technology and communication infrastructure and support
staffing meet faculty, staff, and student needs
� Provide sufficient technology support for efficient administrative services
� Add multi-media classrooms to meet instructional needs
Goal 8: Maintain and improve campus facilities and grounds to meet the needs of a rapidly growing enrollment
� Develop plans for a sustainable campus to ensure wise use of financial and environmental resources
� Add classrooms
� Address parking needs and develop transportation alternatives
� Create more outdoor social spaces
Goal 9: Ensure continuity of effective leadership
� Prepare faculty and staff to assume leadership positions
� Build university goals into organizational culture
Goal 10: Sustain a culture that values all university employees and their contribution to the overall mission of CSU
� Recognize the contributions of CSU employees
� Nurture a culture of teamwork and collaboration
� Promote staff, administrative and non-academic professional development programs
� Adjust staff salaries to appropriate benchmarks
Goal 11: Develop and sustain partnerships for the benefit of CSU and the surrounding community
� Develop partnerships to address the economic, social, and cultural
needs of our region
� Become the region�s most important partner for identifying and solving
educational problems and for promoting educational excellence.
� Become the region�s most important resource for intellectual and applied
research expertise.
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