Skidmore College 2023-24 Strategic Action Agenda
Planning for our Insitutional Future, the 2023-2024 Strategic Action Agenda (SAA), provides context for and review of last year鈥檚 agenda and presents five goals for this year鈥檚 agenda. These goals emerged from and continue to support Skidmore鈥檚 current strategic plan. 鈥�
The 2023-2024 SAA was endorsed by the Institutional Policy and Planning Committee on October 6, 2023 and by the Board of Trustees on October 20, 2023.
Summary of our five strategic goals for 2023-2024:
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We continue the Racial Justice Initiative (RJI). A Racial Justice framework allows us to reaffirm our commitment to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive community as we navigate the complexity of the Supreme Court decision regarding race as an element in the admission process.
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The overall student Residential Experience has emerged as a major institutional commitment, pointing toward a sustained focus on residential life in our strategic planning and capital campaign discussions to follow.
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The Visions and Values project of last year provides a foundation for our Strategic Planning conversations this year and in the years to follow. We will transition from the Visions and Values inquiries into a sustained series of discussions, forums, dialogues, and inquiries to begin our Strategic Planning enterprise, which will be a major focus of our work through 2024-25.
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Speech and Expression continues to be a major focus for our campus, as we seek to reinforce and engage the pressures on freedom of expression in all areas of higher education. Threats to freedom of expression have emerged throughout the nation in regard to education, including incursions into the content of syllabi, the choice of texts, and the discourses within and without the classroom.
- Last year we embarked upon an extraordinarily ambitious commitment to holistic student health and wellness. The resulting McCaffery-Wagman Tennis and Wellness Center鈥攐ne of the largest capital projects ever on our campus鈥攚ill come to completion in the coming year, as the new Fitness Center, the Health and Wellness facilities, and the indoor tennis complex all approach completion. We now seek to expand this effort to include our entire community and all constituencies in a pathway toward a Community of Care.