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Apr 12, 2019·StrategicPlan
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Pacific Lutheran University Academic Identity Statement
Pacific Lutheran University's Academic Identity statement focuses on educating students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership, and care for others, their communities, and the Earth. It values learning in the liberal arts tradition, integrating it with professional studies. The statement emphasizes helping students explore their vocation, providing opportunities for thoughtful leadership, and educating them to practice care for people and the environment, upholding principles of diversity, inclusion, social justice, and sustainability. It affirms the core elements of Lutheran Higher Education, offering an integrative education that examines faith and spiritual traditions, develops deep values, seeks meaning and purpose, and supports rigorous inquiry.
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The strategic plan emphasizes the importance of student-faculty collaborative research and creative projects at PLU, aligning with the university's mission to integrate scholarship and learning. It focuses on strengthening faculty development programs, increasing funding for faculty scholarship, and supporting travel to professional meetings. The plan also aims to enhance fellowship programs for student scholarship, establish undergraduate research fellowships in professional schools, and provide faculty with resources to secure external grants. Additionally, it seeks to recognize faculty scholarship and collaboration with students as a regular part of their workload.
Jan 1, 2018·StrategicPlan
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Pacific Lutheran University Strategic Enrollment Management Plan 2018-2023
Pacific Lutheran University's 2018-2023 Strategic Enrollment Management Plan addresses challenges and opportunities in the current enrollment environment, characterized by a stagnant number of high school graduates, changing demographics (growth in Hispanic students, decline in White students), and a high tuition discount rate creating fiscal pressure. The plan focuses on sustainability and student success, aiming to maintain undergraduate enrollment while lowering the discount rate and growing graduate enrollment. Strategies include developing a sustainable pricing and financial aid model, creating new relevant academic programs, expanding mental health support, providing professional advising for all first-year students, translating key website content into Spanish, and developing new graduate programs. Goals include maintaining first-year and transfer student enrollment, improving retention and persistence rates, addressing racial and ethnic gaps in retention and graduation rates, achieving a 40% male undergraduate enrollment, maximizing athletic team roster capacity, and increasing net tuition revenue.
Jan 1, 2012·StrategicPlan
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Pacific Lutheran University Long-Range Planning Report 2010-2020
PLU 2020 is a long-range planning report for Pacific Lutheran University, outlining its direction and aspirations for the decade ahead towards 2020 and beyond. The plan is built upon four key themes: affirmation of mission and identity, confidence in facing future challenges, a commitment to a community dedicated to teaching and learning, and a relentless aspiration to excellence. It is structured around five core areas: Identity and Mission; The Context of Our Times (addressing demographic, technological, and economic shifts); Academic and Co-curricular Programs (focusing on pathways to distinction); Learning Community (emphasizing diversity, justice, and vocational discernment); and Finance, Enrollment, Fundraising and Facilities (ensuring institutional sustainability). The overarching goal is to enable the university to thrive as an academic community, adapt to changing external contexts, and fulfill its mission of educating students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership, and care.
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