Dear LMU Community,
LMU’s Strategic Planning Steering Committee is pleased to share with you a draft version of the university’s proposed new strategic plan, “Creating the World We Want to Live In: LMU, 2021-26.”
The draft plan includes:
- a re-statement of our institutional mission and core values;
- a brief vision statement of the future we envision for LMU;
- three commitments that we propose should orient our overall strategic approach to that future;
- five spotlight initiatives that we propose as focal points for the university’s efforts, including specific goals, objectives, and actions for each.
The draft has emerged from an in-depth consultative process, and has been informed at each step by community input, including the initial campus-wide survey, the work of our faculty, staff, and student-composed campus teams in analyzing eight strategic issues, and the feedback from focus group participants about our preliminary report in September. This feedback directly guided the choices we have made in proposing this draft plan, as summarized in the section “Preliminary Report and Community Feedback” near the beginning of the document.
We have chosen to share the plan in the form of an interactive website. This format seemed to offer the clearest path to convey the logic of the plan’s structure and the relationship between its parts. Father José Badenes, S.J., and Sister Mary Beth Ingham, C.S.J., both members of the steering committee, have shared a brief video introduction to the draft plan, inviting your participation and explaining the ideas of Ignatian discernment that have inspired and guided our approach to community engagement.
The current document is a draft version of the plan that we intend to revise based on the input we receive. Our primary medium for feedback is a survey through which you can share your responses to each of the plan’s separate elements. The link to the survey can be found at the bottom of the website and responses are requested by 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021. We will also visit leadership groups such as the Faculty Senate, Staff Senate, ASLMU, GSLMU, Deans’ Council, President’s Cabinet, and Board of Trustees for more in-depth discussions.
Thank you for reviewing our proposals and sharing your ideas about how to improve them.
Sincerely,
John M. Parrish
Chair, Strategic Planning Steering Committee
