WSU System Strategic Plan
2020-2025
9-step planning process and timeline
Current focus: Step 6 of 9: Crafting the plan: concept teams
October—November 2019
- Concept teams formed
- Based on input from visioning conference and “What We Know” document and associated research, teams draft goals, objectives, and strategies to be included in the strategic plan
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Steps 1-9 in planning process
Step 1: Setting the stage
August—December 2018
- Analysis of NWCCU accreditation report
- Development of planning model
- Presidential kickoff of planning process
- System-wide listening sessions on current strategic plan
Step 2: Expanding the effort
January—April 2019
- Analysis of data from initial listening sessions
- Creation of Strategic Planning and Institutional Effectiveness Council (SPIEC) with system-wide representation
- Strategic dialogue among senior leadership teams: cabinet, deans, campuses, colleges
Step 3: Convening the community: land-grant symposium
May 2019
- Full day, system-wide dialogue on future of land-grants
- In-depth exploration of three elements of WSU’s land-grant mission: teaching, research, service
Step 4: Building a knowledge base
June—September 2019
- Design environmental scanning process
- Design knowledge repository
- Evaluate knowledge gaps
- Engage in quantitative/qualitative research with internal and external stakeholders
- Survey community online about purpose, values, vision, goals, assumptions
- Create “What We Know” document
Step 5: Convening the community: visioning conference
October 2019
Community input on:
- Assumptions about the future
- SWOT analysis
- Core purpose and core values
- Envisioned future (big goal/vivid descriptions
- Short-term outcome-oriented goals and objectives
Step 6: Crafting the plan: concept teams
October—November 2019
- Concept teams formed
- Based on input from visioning conference and “What We Know” document and associated research, teams draft goals, objectives, and strategies to be included in the strategic plan
Step 7: Strategic plan document drafting
December 2019
- A small team writes the draft of the strategic plan document
- Content includes purpose, values, and vision and goals, as well as underlying assumptions about the future
Step 8: Stakeholder input on draft strategic plan
January 15-February 15, 2020
- Open community comment period for draft strategic plan
- Includes input on draft purpose, values, vision and goals, and underlying assumptions about the future
Step 9: Strategic plan submitted to Board of Regents
March 2020
- Draft strategic plan created and issued for next stages of input and comment by the Board of Regents