A little context for those of you who may be new to Texas Woman’s: When Chancellor Feyten arrived in mid-2014, she organized a grassroots effort to construct a university strategic plan. It took us 18 months with hundreds of voices coming to the table and resulted in a honed mission statement, a vision, and some strategic direction for our work—namely 17 strategic initiatives. Most of all, it was something we could all own.
In this second year of Learn to Thrive: Strategic Plan 2022, the Strategic Plan Design Team is seeing a flurry of activity within the initiatives. Up to this point, the design team has communicated about the activity of the plan via our annual report. We will continue to write that report, but we realize you would likely feel more engaged through other channels of communication. We are pleased to share that starting today, we will begin to publish a weekly column here with status reports on the initiatives. While many of you may be involved in one initiative or another, the breadth of activity among the 17 initiatives will leave you in awe of how we are working together to forward the mission of Texas Woman's.
While progress may be hard to see at times, hope for a better future can encourage us all through the work that we each must do to achieve that future. Our goal for this column is to give you more frequent doses of seeing that vision and all that we are doing, together. Through the end of the spring semester, we will provide updates on several initiatives per week. Then starting back in the fall, we plan to provide one or two initiative updates each week.
For more information on Learn to Thrive, contact Ann Medley, Ph.D. or Amy O’Keefe, co-chairs of the Strategic Plan Design Team.
---
Written by the Strategic Plan Design Team