Strategic Plan Framework

This strategic plan is organized into a series of themes defining N.C. PSI’s broad focus areas for the next three years, supported by strategic priorities that outline what we seek to influence within each theme, goals that define success in measurable ways and key initiatives that will help us achieve each goal.

Each priority area is noted for its alignment with NC State’s Wolfpack 2030 strategic plan and how this plan will help to reinforce and advance the university’s broader impact and success.

We will measure and report on the impact of each of these priorities while tracking our overall progress against the robust outcome metrics associated with the Golden LEAF Foundation’s generous grant to the North Carolina Agricultural Foundation, Inc. that—along with other support provided to the university from North Carolina’s commodity groups, partners and the residents of North Carolina—is serving a crucial role in supporting N.C. PSI’s start-up infrastructure and operations.

N.C. PSI’s success and impact will also largely depend upon the success of its five platforms, which are each designed to break down traditional silos and encourage more intentional interdisciplinary collaboration, thinking, education, knowledge transfer, engagement and work within their respective areas of focus. The goals and strategies each platform will work toward in the coming years are further outlined below as key components of the broader N.C. PSI strategic plan framework, which is organized into three distinct focus areas: scientific impact, engagement and communication, and operations and governance

The sequence and construct of these focus areas within this plan are intentional. N.C. PSI’s core revolves around scientific impact, with researchers working daily to solve some of the world’s grandest challenges. In many ways, this concept is innate to N.C. PSI, where researchers are actively generating scientific excellence, broadly guided by the work of the N.C. PSI platforms as core research priorities. This plan is based on this same understanding, with focus areas and priorities that are crucial for enabling the science, connecting discovery with impact and sustaining this impact over time.

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