Summary - Cal Poly Strategic Plan
VISION
- Nation’s premier comprehensive polytechnic university
- Nationally recognized innovative institution
- Helping California meet future challenges in a global context
TRACKING PROGRESS
- We will track progress toward achieving the vision using key performance indicators
- The KPIs will be directly linked to the vision and connected to the different perspectives of the primary stakeholder groups
- We will measure ourselves against a comparison institutions group
- Each year we will review our status, looking for opportunities for improvement and realignment throughout the institution
- Each year, we will review proposals for action, realigning, opportunities, initiatives and investment
VALUES
Institutional
- excellence, continuous improvement and renewal
- transparency, open communications and collaboration
- accountability, fiscal and environmental responsibility
Individual
- professionalism, personal responsibility, and ethical
- lifelong learner and seeking personal excellence
- campus citizen and team member
Community
- multicultural, intellectual diversity and free inquiry
- inclusivity and excellence, mutual respect and trust
- civic engagement, social and environmental responsibility
DECISIONS
Enhancing differentiation
- Continue to develop unique comprehensive polytechnic identity
- Shift definition to all majors as “polytechnic” preparing whole-system thinker graduates
- Increase integration and interlinking of disciplines, faculty, staff and students
- Build on core Learn-By-Doing pedagogy to ensure all students have a comprehensive polytechnic multi-mode education
Restoring economic viability
- Strategically manage revenue, costs, allocation or resources, improve effectiveness and efficiency
- Shift mix of students to increase proportion of graduate students and international students
- Implement institution-wide vision-driven and evidence-based decision-making and continuous improvement
- Adopt and implement comprehensive enrollment management
ACTION
- All divisions and colleges will develop plans linked to this institutional plan and its strategic decisions.
- Plans will be tied to the institutional Mission and Vision identifying the contributions and roles, and highlight opportunities for collaboration and partnering.
- The plans will encompass the stakeholder perspectives, incorporate Cal Poly values and use the institutional key performance indicators along with other appropriate metrics.
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