The Florida Board of Governors, last week, approved FAMU’s new strategic plan, “Boldy Striking,” designed to chart the University’s course for the next five years.
Over the next five years --- 2022-2027 --- the university plans to focus on improving (1) Student Success, (2) Academic Excellence, (3) Leveraging its Brand, (4) Long-term Health and Fiscal Sustainability and (5) Organizational Effectiveness and Transformation.
“We have set some fairly lofty goals – moving into the top 100 national public universities, and achieving Carnegie R1 status,” said FAMU President Larry Robinson, who reiterated that student success is the cornerstone of the plan. “All the other priorities support that primary outcome. We are anxious to continue the work we have begun to move forward.”
For FAMU to become a Carnegie R1 research institution, the plan calls for reconfiguring faculty workloads to enhance research productivity, and encouraging faculty to collaborate on writing grants.
The new strategic plan is the result of 14 months of deliberations and collaborations among the University’s stakeholders – faculty, staff, administrators, students, alumni, and supporters. The FAMU Board of Trustees approved the 2022-2027 Strategic Plan in July.
The plan calls for the university to foster a culture of intentionality to build an engaging high-performing workforce by developing a compensation framework that aligns market competitiveness and internal equity to attract and retain qualified employees.
“Boldly Striking” is about sustaining and improving the University’s performance in terms of student success, finances, operations, and other areas,” said FAMU Trustee Kristin Harper, who chaired the Strategic Planning & Performance Measures Committee.
“The new plan builds on our rich legacy and the outcomes that we’ve achieved to take us even higher,” she added. “We are moving into a new era of even greater performance, outcomes, and transformation for students and their families and for the generations that will follow.”