MSU University-Wide Strategic Plan Focuses on Empowering Excellence, Advancing Equity, Expanding Impact

<p><a href="https://president.msu.edu">Michigan State University President Samuel L. Stanley Jr., M.D.</a> says the plan is a guidepost for MSU to be strategic about wisely and efficiently using limited resources and refine its values in an inclusive way.</p><p>“We have a mission of education, research and innovation, and outreach to really take what we've learned and make a difference in people's lives,” Stanley says. “So, we really need to be strategic. Resources are limited. We know that. We depend upon tuition. We depend upon state allocation. Those things have not been rising at great levels recently. We must think very carefully about how we use our resources. What we did for Michigan State University was say, ‘What are our values? What are the things we care about? How do we want to make a difference? Where do we want to be impactful?’</p><p>“We identified those values and then we said, ‘How do we accomplish and excel in them?’ We have the university's strategic plan, which looks at the university's activities on a whole level. We have the <a href="https://share.transistor.fm/s/cf39ed27">RVSM Strategic Plan</a>, which looks at an issue that's been very important for Michigan State, relationship violence and sexual misconduct. And then we have a <a href="https://share.transistor.fm/s/fa538c05%20">plan for diversity, equity, and inclusion</a>, which is not only a separate plan, but also incorporated into the university's strategic plan. We made a campus wide effort to bring people together.</p><p>“These plans had to be inclusive; they weren’t going to be top down. We had to have plans where faculty and staff and students had input on what we're going to do going forward. And from that we've crafted something we think, particularly in the university strategic plan, is going to take us from now to 2030 and be a guidepost for us for how we invest our resources and how we work together as an institution to be impactful and to make a difference for the State of Michigan.”</p><p>Ultimately, says President