Baton Rouge, La. – The Southern University Agricultural Land-Grant Campus held a
Strategic Planning Retreat on May 15-16, 2018 at the Smith-Brown
Memorial Student Union and the SU Ag Center.
The retreat was held to bring all the
campus’ stakeholders – administration, faculty and staff – together to develop
strategies that will be used to achieve several goals and sub-goals for the SU
Land-Grant Campus. These goals and sub-goals will be used to outline the future
of the academic programs and outreach services for the campus.
The faculty and staff were divided into
five committees on the first day of the retreat. Each committee developed a strategy
for one of the following five goals:
1. Promote and build the spirit of service
and teamwork among faculty and staff across the academic, research, and
extension units;
2. Establish Centers of Excellence that
fulfill the Land-Grant teaching, research and extension mission;
3. Transform the academic model to better
meet the needs of Agricultural Family and Consumer Sciences students to prepare
them to be highly competitive in the global workforce;
4. Build partnerships and improve the SU
Ag Center/CAFCS relations with stakeholders such as alumni, business enterprise
and corporations, foundations, public and private agencies, other institutions
and the community
5. Efficiently and effectively manage
existing resources and aggressively pursue public and private resources to support
the Land-Grant mission.
At the end of the day, the faculty and
staff were treated to a cook out on the lawn of Fisher Hall.
The committees continued their process of developing
strategies and a mission statement on the second day of the retreat. The chairpersons of each committee also
presented an oral report to the full campus on their recommended strategies.
In the coming months, the steering
committee will prepare drafts of the strategic plan; receive feedback from faculty,
staff and students; publish a final copy of the Strategic Plan and begin
implementing the strategies.
Photos from the Strategic Planning Retreat are available here.
Photos from the Strategic Planning Retreat are available here.
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