Strategic Plan for Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Strategic Plan for Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies
Mission
Creating and sustaining a community of scholar-activists who: understand
systems of gender and sexuality; generate and apply intersectional
feminist and queer perspectives; challenge structural inequalities; and
work for social justice.
Vision
The Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies department will be a community
of excellent faculty and students who share a vision of diverse gender
justice, providing a theory-based and broadly engaged curriculum that
focuses on transforming the campus and the larger community through
rigorous scholarship as a foundation for teaching, learning, vocation,
and civic life.
Value Statement
Building communities that ensure gender justice
Interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and research
Liberal education and academic excellence in learning, teaching,
and research
Rigorous scholarship by faculty and students as a foundation for
teaching, learning, vocation, and civic life
Diverse, innovative and effective teaching
Assessment as a means to evaluate and improve student learning
Culture of collegiality and collaboration
Diversity, civic discourse, and democratic communities
Experiential and high-impact learning
International perspectives and experiences
Strategic Priorities, outcomes, and key objectives
Strategic Priority Area 1: Actively engage learners at all levels.
Outcome A: Grand Valley's learning environment is personal, challenging, and transformational, supporting excellent academic programs and co-curricular opportunities.
Outcome B: Grand Valley is diverse and inclusive.
Outcome C: Grand Valley has mutually beneficial relationships, partnerships, collaborations, and connections with local, state, national, and world communities.
Strategic Priority Area 2: Further develop exceptional personnel.
Outcome A: Grand Valley's learning environment is personal, challenging, and transformational, supporting excellent academic programs and co-curricular opportunities.
Outcome C: Grand Valley has mutually beneficial relationships, partnerships, collaborations, and connections with local, state, national, and world communities.
Outcome D: Grand Valley supports innovative teaching, learning, integrative scholarly and creative activity, and the use of new technologies.
Strategic Priority Area 3: Ensure the alignment of institutional structures and functions.
Outcome D: Grand Valley supports innovative teaching, learning, integrative scholarly and creative activity, and the use of new technologies.
Outcome E: Grand Valley strategically allocates its fiscal, human, and other institutional resources.
Strategic Priority Area 4: Enhance the institution's image and reputation.
Outcome C: Grand Valley has mutually beneficial relationships, partnerships, collaborations, and connections with local, state, national, and world communities.