Relaunch of SFA Envisioned 2023 Strategic Plan
June 10, 2020 - 12:08 p.m.
SFA Faculty and Staff:
The landscape of higher education has been undergoing drastic change over the last several years, and now Covid-19 has accelerated this transition. For SFA to be successful, we must reimagine, innovate and modernize how we deliver and support education. As our SFA Envisioned vision statement asserts, “We will be a forward-thinking university that not only is responsive to the realities of higher education but also is a leader in academia… we will achieve financial sustainability by meeting tough choices head-on and making smart decisions about the future of the university.”
In 2015, SFA launched the SFA Envisioned 2023 strategic plan. We are now “relaunching“ the plan with a focus on strategically addressing the current “realities in higher education” referenced in our vision statement.
A new strategic plan website, http://www.sfasu.edu/envisioned, outlines the initiatives underway at SFA to meet these disruptive challenges. The status of the various initiatives will be updated regularly to keep you informed about the progress being made.
On this new site, you will find articles outlining strategies being deployed by other institutions to adapt to the new educational landscape we all face. As you may have heard, there is an initiative underway to redesign a portion of our 16-week courses to be delivered in 8 weeks. In the resources section of the website you will find research discussing the benefits of leveraging 8-week terms.
The future is now. The work we do today will lay the foundation for SFA’s ongoing success. Working together, we will become the model for the new American university.
Thank you,
Scott A. Gordon
President