Campuswide Collaboration

The 150 Forward Strategic Planning process began even before Dr. Charles Robinson was selected as the university’s seventh chancellor on Nov. 16, 2022, when he began rallying the campus around three strategic priority areas – or pillars: student success, research excellence and employer of choice initiatives.

A planning group began designing a series of events to bring the entire campus community into the planning process, and partnered with EAB, a higher education research firm, to provide best practices, tools and support to campus units.

The events — including town hall discussions, unit and organization level listening sessions and discussions, workshops and goal-setting sessions — kicked off in February 2023 and continued throughout the year, supporting the planning process from the initial stages of identifying goals and objectives to working with representatives across campus to develop strategies and tactics for achieving them.

The final plan and key metrics were announced in December 2023.