The Strategy Team (ST) will be charged by the president to develop a new five-year strategic plan for the university.

The ST co-chairs will form and provide oversight and direction to four strategic planning development teams and the Data and Assessment Team.

The Strategy Team and development teams will engage in campuswide iterative feedback processes to construct the strategic plan throughout the entire planning process. 

• ground their work in continuous campus feedback from students, faculty, staff, and external groups;
• develop mission, vision, and core value statements;
• set strategic plan goals, strategies, and measurable outcomes using:
  • draft plans submitted by the development teams;
  • collegiate and unit strategic plans;
  • feedback from campus leadership groups;
  • feedback from campuswide listening sessions, focus groups, town halls, and open forums; and
  • campus and benchmarking data provided by the Data & Assessment Team; and
• identify areas of distinction that will contribute to the creation of a "destination university."

The Data & Assessment Team will help the Strategy Team and development teams articulate priorities for change, devise implementation plans, and identify sources of information needed for monitoring effectiveness of change.  The team will serve as a resource for identifying and using existing information sources, and will help identify strategies for collecting information not currently available in institutional data.

The Data & Assessment Team will:

• provide assessment and analysis to define themes​,
• identify and support the application of institutional information resources available for strategic plan development​, and
• assist in establishing metrics and providing ongoing outcome analytics.