“Excellence and equity in research and teaching is really what we're all about”

<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 MSU Today, we'll be focusing on the discovery, creativity, and innovation for excellence and global impact 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>, Executive Vice President for Health Sciences <a href="https://healthsciences.msu.edu">Norman J. Beauchamp Jr.</a>, and Vice President for Research and Innovation <a href="https://research.msu.edu/about">Douglas Gage</a>. </p><p>“MSU has an extraordinary people and an extraordinary capacity to really make a difference, and our job is to help them succeed and find ways to reach their full potential in their research work and have the full impact it should,” says Michigan State University President <a href="https://president.msu.edu">Samuel L. Stanley Jr.</a>, M.D. “That involves reducing the barriers for them to submit grants and making it easier for them to work within their grants and facilitate the valuable work they’re doing. </p><p>“That involves exciting new facilities like <a href="https://frib.msu.edu">FRIB</a> and collaboration with scientists around the world. It’s about having impact. Extension helps us to be good at applied research. We have an ambitious goal of $1 billion in research expenditures. That will take a lot of work, but I’m excited about the pathway to get there. This is an area where we really change people’s lives and make a difference, not just on our campus and in our state and the country, but in the world. MSU is doing that every day, and this is an opportunity to do it on an even larger scale and have greater impact.” </p><p>At Michigan State, we pursue excellence in service to