for the 21st Century

Seattle Pacific University

Comprehensive PlanComprehensive Plan

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The Purpose of the Plan

To provide strategic direction for the University for the next ten years.

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A Grand Aspiration for the Plan

To define The Christian University for the 21st Century.

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The Challenges

Peter Drucker: “Thirty years from now the big university campuses will be relics. Universities won’t survive. It’s as large a change as when we first got the printed book.” Because of costs and the impact of information technology, “higher education is in deep crisis.” (Forbes, March 10, 1997)

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Our Motivation

Because we want to serve the Kingdom of Jesus Christ with distinction.

Because we commit our lives to a grand venture of learning that can and should change the world.

Because we know the world needs the light of learning shaped by the gospel.

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SPU: At The Crossroads!

Our opportunities are enormous. Our responsibilities are significant. The choices are now.

We need to know who we are and We need to know who we are and what we aspire to become and how what we aspire to become and how we will get where we want to go.we will get where we want to go.

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Three Parts To The Plan

The driving idea, our compelling focus, our Big Idea.

Specific area plans. Strategies for action.

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SPU: A Christian University for the 21st Century

Our first premise: We are grounded on the gospel of Our first premise: We are grounded on the gospel of Jesus Christ.Jesus Christ.

Guided Guided by three by three clusters of clusters of core core values.values.

Our focus is outward.Our focus is outward.

We We serve serve the the church, church, the city, the city, and the and the world!world!

Graduates prepared Graduates prepared to make a to make a differencedifference..

Ideas that Ideas that really matter.really matter.

A grace-filled A grace-filled community community that informs that informs our way.our way.

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Our Christian Commitment

Guided and informed by our rich Wesleyan heritage and loyal to our Free Methodist partnership.

Clearly evangelical. Genuinely ecumenical.

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To be a university for the 21st Century means:

We need to understand and address the crisis of meaning in our culture.

We must engage the modern city. We must be informed by a global

consciousness. We must be enabled by the discerning use

of technology.

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FOUR PLANS FOR THE FUTURE

An educational plan that defines academic vision and priorities and campus life vision and priorities;

An enrollment plan that provides targets for size, mix, and profile;

A capital improvement plan that guides the creation of a new masterplan;

An endowment plan with targets for the next five and ten years.

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FIVE STRATEGIES FOR ACTION

A new positioning plan and marketing plan; A major fundraising campaign; New recruitment and retention strategies; A campus masterplan; A plan for outcomes assessment.

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STRATEGIC CALENDAR

The Big Idea presented to the Board, January 30, 1998.

The contours of the Comprehensive Plan presented to the Board, May 1998.

Final Comprehensive Plan for the 21st Century, November 1998 Board Meeting.

Strategies for Action, February-May 1999.