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 2030 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.
Join us as we bring this vision to life. Your voice, ideas, and actions matter.
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
Each focus area represents an area of momentum within our college, reflecting our values and setting the standards to which we’ll hold ourselves. You can learn more about an individual focus area, its objectives, sample strategies, and assessment metrics
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
We commit to a culture where all people and identities are supported in achieving their potential.
Arts & Storytelling
We commit to our belief that our shared futures depend on the storywork of the arts, languages, and humanities.
Engaged Pedagogy & Practice
We commit to reciprocal, engaged learning experiences that transform lives.
Well-Being
We commit to a culture of mutual support, well-being, and belonging for all our college community.
Research & Innovation
We commit to the rigor and innovation necessary to elevating our scholarship and amplifying 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.