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Feb 20, 2026·StrategicPlan
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Naropa Strategic Plan
Naropa's Ponderosa Plan outlines a strategic transformation to mobilize and expand the institution's mission through accelerated curricular regeneration, new program development, and an evolved sustainable business model. The plan is structured around five key pillars: Rooting in Values, Expanding Access to Contemplative Education, Ensuring Financial and Operational Resilience, Scaling Up through Solidarity & Partnerships, and Investing in a Community of Belonging and Care. The intended outcomes focus on stewarding Naropa's legacy, increasing affordability and access, strengthening learning and work conditions, and long-term institutional sustainability.
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This document outlines Naropa University's foundational principles, including its purpose, vision, mission, and core values. The university aims to cultivate compassionate, creative, and critical engagement through contemplative education, envisioning an interconnected global community that promotes individual, social, and ecological liberation. Its mission is to create a just and regenerative world by nurturing student insight and developing mindful leaders. The plan is guided by values such as fostering lifelong learning, expanding contemplative education, building a culture of belonging, promoting ecological interconnection, cultivating authentic relationships, championing responsibility, and invoking artistic expression.
Aug 21, 2025·StrategicPlan
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Naropa University Assurance Argument 2023-2030
This Assurance Argument details how Naropa University's mission guides its operations, ensures integrity, and delivers quality education, aligning with its long-term strategic priorities. The university's strategic direction is centered on contemplative education, fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion, promoting ecological sustainability and regeneration, and advancing social justice and compassionate action. Key focus areas include student-centered holistic development, ethical and responsible conduct across all functions, and preparing students for informed citizenship and workplace success. The overarching vision is to create a more just and regenerative world by nurturing student insight, awareness, courage, and compassion, thereby developing effective, mindful leaders who contribute to individual, social, and ecological liberation and wellbeing.
May 20, 2025·StrategicPlan
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Naropa University
This document provides an overview of Naropa University's academic offerings, including undergraduate and graduate programs, admissions processes, student life, and administrative structure. It details various majors, degree programs, special programs, and faculty, functioning as an academic catalog rather than outlining a strategic direction or specific strategic plan objectives.
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