“Faculty and staff are absolutely critical to everything we do at MSU”

<p><a href="https://strategicplan.msu.edu">MSU's 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 staff and faculty success pillar 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 Administration and Chief Information Officer <a href="https://evpa.msu.edu/staff/woo.html">Melissa Woo</a>, and Executive Vice President for Health Sciences <a href="https://healthsciences.msu.edu/about/beauchamp/index.html">Dr. Norman J.Beauchamp</a>.</p><p>Michigan State University President <a href="https://president.msu.edu">Samuel L. Stanley Jr., M.D.</a> says MSU's staff and faculty are key assets of the university whose work determines the success of the university. And it's important to find ways to make MSU a place where people want to come to work and achieve their potential.</p><p>“Faculty and staff are absolutely critical to everything we do at MSU,” <a href="https://instagram.com/msupresstanley">Stanley</a> says. “And if you look at what the assets are that we value at the university, we have an amazing physical plant and amazing facilities. We have incredible students. They're remarkable, but our outstanding faculty and staff are our core assets, and their work really determines the success of the university.</p><p>“What we want to do in this part of the plan is really talk about how we help faculty and staff succeed in their important work. How can we enable them? They have the talent and the capabilities, but how do we do what we can to remove barriers and help them fully succeed in what they're trying to do? How do we find avenues for advancement for faculty and staff? How do we help them achieve? How d