Creating a Better World Through the Transformative Power of the Arts, Letters, and Humanities.
Arts & Letters 2030 Strategic Roadmap
The College of Arts & Letters has created a Strategic Plan as a roadmap toward becoming the college we envision. This plan represents our collective effort to generate a collective vision, a shared horizon where we align our goals and expectations to create a thriving community for years to come.
Our Commitment
The College of Arts & Letters Strategic Plan 2024 is a college-wide promise and commitment to our shared future. This website invites you to explore our plan and actively engage in the ongoing process of realizing our vision.
Here, you will discover the unique qualities that distinguish CAL from other liberal arts colleges, making us an irresistible place to learn and work.
PURPOSE STATEMENT
We create a better world through the transformative power of the Arts, Letters, and Humanities.
ASPIRATION STATEMENT
We will be an irresistible destination for those who imagine and work for a more just and more beautiful future.
Our Values
Equity
inclusivity, diversity, social justice, equitable access, accessibility
Openness
transparency, open process, candor, accountability, open source
Community
collaboration, collegiality, empathy, respect, connection
Key Focus Areas
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
We invest our attention and resources in creating tangible aspects of an inclusive culture because we believe diversity is essential to our excellence.
Arts & Storytelling
We commit to our belief that our world depends on the story work of the arts, languages, and humanities, and we commit to creating community and scholarship that elevates this work.
Engaged Pedagogy & Practice
We cultivate reciprocal, engaged learning experiences that transform lives.
Well-Being
We foster a culture of mutual support, well-being, and belonging for all our college community.
Research & Innovation
We emphasize the rigor and innovation necessary to bring excellence to our scholarship and to underscore the efficacy of our shared values.
We’re glad you’re here.
The College of Arts & Letters created our Strategic Plan as a map toward the College we know we can be.
We’ve come together to generate a shared horizon, setting expectations for ourselves and one another in the years to come.
The result? A College-wide promise and commitment to our shared future. This website is our way of inviting you into the ongoing process of fulfilling that promise; we welcome you into the story of our College.
Here, you’ll learn about what CAL apart from other liberal arts colleges and makes us an irresistible place to learn and work.
Navigating the Plan
The menu at the top of this page gives you the options to learn more about our processes and the people who created this plan (About), our objectives and assessment planning (Focus), and our progress so far (Progress).
Each of these pages will have links you can follow to learn the story of our Strategic Plan, and each will also include access options for both a plain text version of that page’s relevant parts of the Strategic Plan and access to our full-plan PDF.
If you have trouble navigating the site, don’t hesitate to reach out to us: contact Dr. Karen Moroski-Rigney at moroskik@msu.edu. She’s our Director of Strategic Planning, Assessment, and Accessibility and she’s here to help.
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
The College of Arts & Letters has created a Strategic Plan as a roadmap toward becoming the college we envision. This plan represents our collective effort to generate a collective vision, a shared horizon where we align our goals and expectations to create a thriving community for years to come.
Our Commitment
The College of Arts & Letters Strategic Plan 2024 is a college-wide promise and commitment to our shared future. This website invites you to explore our plan and actively engage in the ongoing process of realizing our vision.
Here, you will discover the unique qualities that distinguish CAL from other liberal arts colleges, making us an irresistible place to learn and work.