Strategic Planning Campus Engagement

Strategic Planning Campus Engagement

Putting Our Future in Focus - April 2024

From April 22-26, the Strategic Planning Team and leaders from PSU’s Office of Student Affairs and Office of Student Success will engage with students across campus to share draft institutional Guiding Commitments and further test what we think are the distinctive benefits PSU provides students, staff, faculty, and the community. 

• Goal: Better understand 1) how the statements resonate with students and 2) what will be needed to scale the benefits we provide our students so that we can better live out our guiding commitments and drive toward a 2030 vision.
• PSU’s Office of Student Success carried out a series of virtual focus groups with students. Please contact success@pdx.edu for more information. 
• PSU’s Office of Student Affairs and members of the Strategic Planning Team hosted "pop-up tables" across campus in spaces such as Victor's Dining Hall, Campus Recreation, Smith Memorial Student Union, and other high student-traffic locations. 
• Results from these activities will be made available soon.

Past Engagement

Campus Engagement - February 2024

In February 2024, the PSU’s Strategic Planning team held 3 in-person engagement events and a virtual opportunity for community members to learn what strategic planning means for PSU,  discuss the benefits PSU provides our students, and brainstorm how we can better live up to the values we hold.

• Over 400 students, staff, faculty, and community partners attended in-person engagement events or participated asynchronously through a virtual engagement website. 
• Key questions asked:
  • What challenges are current PSU students experiencing? What does PSU need to do to better serve students?
  • What do community partners value about PSU and our graduates? What role should PSU have in reinventing the future of our region?
  • How is PSU living up to the values our community members see as priorities? How do we actualize our values?
• What we learned: Through over 50 volunteer-facilitated community conversations, participants connected their personal experiences and vision for PSU to the questions posed and focused their feedback on building the future.  
  Read syntheses of these engagement event conversations →
• How we’re using this information: Insights from community conversations shed light on opportunities for institutional growth and are supporting the development of institutional value propositions.

Videos of presentations from President Ann Cudd and Strategic Planning team members given at these engagement events are available below.

Welcome

President Ann Cudd provides a welcome and introduction to this virtual campus engagement below.

Strategic Planning Overview

Sheila Martin, Vice President of Public Affairs and Chief of Staff to the president, shares an overview of PSU’s Strategic Planning process.

Understanding the Value PSU Provides Students

In the following video, Sheila Martin introduces segments of PSU’s student population and the goal of this section.

Defining the Heart of PSU

In the following video, Tia Freelove Kirk, Strategic Planning Project Director, shares results from “The Heart of PSU” survey and themes that emerged. 

Defining The Heart of PSU - January 2024

In January 2024, students, staff, and faculty were invited to carry out conversations across our community to help the Strategic Planning team define “The Heart of PSU.”  
 

• 830 students, staff, and faculty shared their insights through completion of a survey or group conversation.
• Key questions asked: 
  • Why do our students, staff, and faculty join the PSU community? 
  • What do our community members love about PSU? 
  • What do our community members think PSU’s core values should be?
• What we learned: 
  PSU’s Regional Research Institute analyzed and synthesized responses from the PSU community. Read the Heart of PSU Survey Report of Findings →
• How we’re using this information: 
  Feedback from the Heart of PSU engagement deepened the strategic planning team’s understanding of the PSU community and provided qualitative data for the development of institutional guiding commitments.