Category: Goals

GOAL IV: Develop a culture of inclusive, intentional, and transparent planning and decision-making.

Planning & Decision-Making

GOAL IV:  Develop a culture of inclusive, intentional, and transparent planning and decision-making.

  • Build a flexible, collaborative infrastructure to collect, store, analyze, and share data to inform institutional planning and decisions.
  • Align consortium collaborations with the College’s strategy and goals.
  • Make governance structures, policies, and processes more effective, ensuring they draw fully on the wisdom of all stakeholders.

GOAL III: Deepen our commitment to financial sustainability to promote broader access to a Pitzer education and create adaptability in response to the evolving higher education landscape.

Financial Sustainability

GOAL III:  Deepen our commitment to financial sustainability to promote broader access to a Pitzer education and create adaptability in response to the evolving higher education landscape.

  • Implement a thoughtful plan for enrollment growth to increase revenue and realize the benefits of scale.
  • Build a more robust, nimble, and creative advancement operation.
  • Build our brand, create more awareness, and capture more of our public’s mind share through a concerted communications program emphasizing the accomplishments of our students, alumni, faculty, and staff, and how these reflect and reinforce the College’s core values.
  • Diversify revenue sources, including building the endowment, to create a more flexible foundation for the future.

GOAL II: Advance a College-wide sense of community and engagement by cultivating an environment where students, faculty, and staff all thrive.

Build a Thriving Community

Goal II: Advance a College-wide sense of community and engagement by cultivating an environment where students, faculty, and staff all thrive.

  • Facilitate the bringing together of students, faculty, and staff in both formal and informal settings by expanding the portfolio of shared experiences.
  • Steward campus facilities and technology to promote learning, community and engagement.
  • Promote intercultural understanding and community trust through cross-group dialogue and other means.
  • Anticipate, identify, and respond to the diverse needs of all members of the College community, emphasizing inclusion and equity.
  • Improve the overall student experience, using student-led dialogue as the basis for planning.
  • Develop a long-term strategic enrollment plan that increases access to the College, optimizes the use of College resources, and positions the College to have a more socioeconomically diverse student body.

GOAL I: Broaden the interdisciplinary landscape and expand academic resources to better equip students to engage holistically with the complex problems of the world.

Academic Resources & Planning

GOAL I:  Broaden the interdisciplinary landscape and expand academic resources to better equip students to engage holistically with the complex problems of the world.

  • Create new interdisciplinary strategies, leveraging existing academic programs, both to guide and respond to students’ changing academic interests.
  • Rethink the allocation of faculty lines through cross-disciplinary, faculty-led conversations, to advance the College’s academic plans and priorities.
  • Further integrate Keck Science into traditional core academic programming to expand interdisciplinary learning opportunities and promote creativity and innovation in the sciences.
  • Improve student learning by using added resources to create new program offerings, enhance academic space and technology, support increased enrollment at Keck Science, and support existing faculty lines and majors.
  • Enhance academic support services to better meet the needs of an increasingly diverse student body.
  • Reimagine the first and second year student experiences in ways that increase retention and improve academic and career advising.