In a recent Chronicle of Higher Education article, President Pullin noted that “The prospects for higher ed in the decades to come are very, very promising, so long as institutions seize the opportunity to innovate at every turn, stay centered on their values, and rise up to meet the needs of society.” At Texas Christian University, our new LEAD ON: Values in Action Strategic Plan is designed to do just that.
Our new Values in Action blog will focus on the significant work of our TCU community to bring this plan to life and become a go-to source for all things strategic plan.
We’ll talk about the four strategic plan pillars (Student-Centered Growth; Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activities; Athletics; and Community Engagement) and the ambitious goals that will position TCU to become a Top 50 private university.
We’ll talk about the 45 Initiatives, like the focus on efforts to increase student success by augmenting existing advising and academic support resources, identifying at-risk students earlier, intervening earlier, and removing existing curricular barriers to graduation.
We’ll talk about the everyday and the extraordinary efforts to put TCU’s Values in Action for our students, our staff, our faculty, and our community.
We also want to hear from you – what would you like to see in this blog? What stories would like to see shared, amplified?
Over the next several weeks, months, years our hope is to publish regular stories every week or two. These first few stories will focus on the plan, the pillars, the initiatives, and the work already underway to put this plan into motion. Over time (it is a 10-year plan)–we plan to publish a broad range of content including:
- Foundational Posts: Discuss the importance, framework, and the evolution of TCU’s strategic plan as we implement and execute over the next several years.
- Pillar & Initiative Spotlights: Dive into the four pillars and 45 initiatives including interviews and Q&A’s spotlighting by TCU faculty, staff, students and community partners.
- Progress Updates: Share key achievements and report on measurable outcomes.
- Current Events: Explore activities and on-going efforts around the strategic plan.
- Other: Whatever else you tell us would be helpful, relevant, and inspiring to share as we move forward.
And who is the “we”? It’s me - I will be writing all/most of the blogs. It’s you – you will be doing the incredible work that we work together to showcase in the blog. And it’s our incredible Marketing and Communications team as I was a Creative Writing minor in college - so while I like to write, my sentence structure and grammar isn’t always technically perfect – like this sentence (so let’s see if they leave this one in).
The new LEAD ON: Values in Action strategic plan will “innovate at every turn”, “stay centered on values”, and “rise up to meet the needs of society”. The new Values in Action blog will share the who, what, when, where, why, and how we’re working together to do it.