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Dear Members of the CT State Community,
Our Strategic Planning Steering Committee began meeting regularly last month, reviewing and assessing data, reflecting on who we are as a college, and preparing plans that will help us gather meaningful input from across our college community.
 
Now, we’re ready to expand the conversation with all of you. The next two months will focus on engaging across campuses and disciplines, discussing the data together, and imagining the future of our accomplished institution.
 
As we build CT State’s first comprehensive strategic plan as a unified college, we want to hear directly from students, faculty, staff, and foundation leaders across our campuses. This is our opportunity, for the first time as one college, to shape our shared direction and define the next era of CT State.
 
Here’s what we’ll be exploring, among other areas:

• Our mission and vision — Do they reflect who we are now and who we want to become?
• Our institutional values — What should define us? What principles should guide how we lead, teach, serve, and work together?
• The student experience — What’s working in teaching, in support services, in funding support, in community engagement, and in peer support? What does the data say that we are doing well and what areas we need to improve? How do we keep students at the center of every decision?
• Teaching and learning — How do we support great instruction, in all modes of delivery, and innovation across a statewide model? 
• Workforce development — How do we strengthen our role as Connecticut’s workforce engine? Are our academic and workforce programs aligned with employer perspectives, and do we have the appropriate feedback loops? 

When considering our values, what words best capture who we are and what we stand for: excellence, access, equity, innovation, community, or something else? Let’s define them together.