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Strategic Plan 2025
Our vision for the next five years
The LSU College of Agriculture began the strategic planning process in July 2019. The college started with an internal committee within the dean’s office to lay the groundwork for the planning process and help organize the key questions needed to move the college forward. Department heads, school directors, and dean’s office staff evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of the college to create a structure focused on the crucial initiatives included in the strategic plan. Subcommittees worked in five concentrated areas to develop overarching goals and helped create the metrics to measure progress.
Goal 1
Goal 2
Goal 3
Enhance
Seek
Create
the student experience to ensure success and create leaders prepared to engage in the complex global arena of agriculture, food, fiber, and natural resources.
to achieve a culture where everyone in the college is included, respected, and supported.
premier academic programs designed to address future challenges of agriculture, food, fiber, and natural resources and to enhance the undergraduate student experience locally, nationally, and internationally.
This goal is under review with the hiring of the new assistant vice president (AVP) for diversity, inclusion, and opportunity. This section includes a summary of current initiatives in place.
Initiatives
Initiatives
Initiatives
Emphasize experiential learning opportunities and professional development experiences through internships, undergraduate research, service-learning, and communication-intensive courses.
Emphasized communication about diversity with current and future students.
Academic and faculty engagement.
Produced diversity and inclusion resources for learning and reflection.
Streamline and focus recruitment efforts to increase and diversify student enrollment.
Recruited and hired a diverse and inclusive staff of student workers.
Improve student retention initiatives.
Created the Council for Diversity, Inclusion, Equity and Change.
Provide courses that train students with the essential skills needed to be successful to address global challenges.
Created, developed, and highlighted student organizations that value inclusion.
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LSU College of Agriculture
2020-2021 Annual Impact Report
