"Every student we admit to MSU has the capability to learn, thrive, persist, graduate, and succeed”

<p><a href="https://strategicplan.msu.edu">MSU Strategic Plan 2030</a> identifies goals within six key themes: student success, staff and faculty success, discovery, creativity, and innovation for excellence and global impact, sustainable health, stewardship and sustainability, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.</p><p>On this edition of <a href="http://go.msu.edu/episodes">MSU Today</a>, we'll be focusing on the student success theme of the plan with its executive sponsors: Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs <a href="https://provost.msu.edu">Teresa Woodruff</a> and Senior Vice President for Student Life and Engagement <a href="https://msu.edu/about/leadership/executive/executive-officers#gore">Vennie Gore</a>. </p><p>Michigan State University President <a href="https://president.msu.edu">Samuel L. Stanley Jr., M.D.</a> says MSU student success is central to everything we're doing at MSU.</p><p>“It's no accident that student success was the first pillar of our strategic plan, and it's really central to everything we're doing at Michigan State University,” says Stanley. “It touches on everything we do. I think what's exciting about what we're trying to do in this pillar and this area of emphasis is really bring to even further fruition a change in attitude and accomplishment that is taking place at Michigan State.</p><p>“We believe that every student we admit to Michigan State is capable and should graduate from Michigan State University. They're capable of doing that. When they finish, we're going to continue to support them in having rewarding careers during their lifetime. We’re going to help everyone who comes here graduate because we believe they can.</p><p>“We're not going to stop at graduation. We're going to continue to be an advocate for them and support them as they continue in their careers and their lives. People have been talking about this before I came, but I really see this as an opportunity for us as an institution to really make this happen. We're going to talk a