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University of Redlands Strategic Plan

Forward Together

Our Mission

We welcome, educate, and empower a diverse community of learners for lives of meaning, impact, and joy.

Our Vision 2032

By 2032, the University of Redlands will lead California in providing a student-focused, personalized education that drives student success.

 

Our Values

Excellence

We strive to do our best in all that we pursue while empowering our students through scholarship and the skills needed to develop professional, civic, and interpersonal expertise.

Exploration

We pursue a better understanding and appreciation of ourselves and the world through academic inquiry, research, experiential learning, and collegial discourse.

Inclusivity

We seek the different perspectives, experiences, cultures, backgrounds, abilities, talents, and contributions that comprise a global society and we work to build a strong multi-dimensional, and sustainable community.

Justice

We promote fairness, integrity, liberty, and equity in our thoughts, service, and actions to lead our local communities and the world.

Kindness

We foster a community that is friendly, considerate, respectful, and empathetic as we care for and shape citizens who understand that their actions and words impact others.

Service

Through selfless acts, we contribute to the health and wellness of others as we strive to create a better society and world.

Our Shared Culture

Purpose

We provide a student-focused personalized, holistic, engaging education

Promise

Students will graduate ready to realize their full potential and flourish

Foundation

We value our faculty and staff, and empower them to fulfill our Purpose and Promise

 

Our Strategic Plan Goals and Objectives

 

Meeting students’ needs to launch their success

  • Foster diversity, inclusion, and social-consciousness
  • Develop programs aligned with demand responsive to all learners, societal need, and the future of work
  • Remove barriers, strengthen wellness practices, and deliver an affordable education
  • Strengthen student-centered advising and high-impact learning practices across divisions

 

Enhancing our sustainable educational environment

  • Improve faculty/staff wellness, balance, and professional development
  • Make facilities comfortable, accessible, engaging, and sustainable
  • Sustain and enhance a distinctive workplace culture that promotes inclusion, collaboration, and community engagement
  • Ensure financial sustainability for a thriving future

 

Building future-focused innovation

  • Ensure students develop core liberal arts and experience-based skills that translate into future-focused career and citizenship competencies
  • Enhance technological capacity for pedagogy, efficiency, and interaction
  • Develop a workplace culture that embraces and utilizes innovation

 

Overarching Initiatives

The full strategic plan is available for University of Redlands employees on MyRedlands.

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Investing in our People and Culture

Expand a comprehensive plan to invest in our people and culture.
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Comprehensive Philanthropic Plan

Grow a comprehensive philanthropic plan to further Vision 2032.
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Comprehensive Technology Plan

Promote a comprehensive technology plan that integrates Vision 2032 priorities.
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Comprehensive Facilities Plan

Evolve a comprehensive facilities plan to further Vision 2032.
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Enrollment Management

Develop a strategic enrollment management plan highlighting educational value and enhancing student support to achieve Vision 2032.
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Academic Program Portfolio

Implement an ongoing academic program portfolio management process to ensure academic excellence and market responsiveness to achieve Vision 2032.
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Academic and Co-Curricular Experience

Advance a shared, personalized academic and co-curricular experience that delivers on the promise of Vision 2032 and our DEI principles.

Forward Together

By 2032, the University of Redlands will lead California in providing a student-focused, personalized education that drives student success. 

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