Long Range Goals
Long Range Planning for Faculty and Staff to Meet Lehigh’s Mission and Goals - To create a process to, on an ongoing basis, assess and identify the optimal work force needed in order to remain vigilant to the university’s mission and goals and simultaneously be responsive to the evolving pedagogical and research needs of the University to remain at the forefront of higher education.
Student Life and Learning - To create and sustain an environment that celebrates the “whole student” through the full integration and interdependence of living and learning and which is supported by members of the university community who are committed to contribute and participate on a daily basis.
Increase Research and Graduate Programs - To elevate the global impact, recognition, and productivity of Lehigh’s Research and Graduate Programs, through achieving distinction in concentrated intellectual areas while simultaneously achieving a balance and integration of research and education. The outcome is to ultimately increase Lehigh’s visibility and reputation to a higher level of international recognition in research, scholarship and creative work as well as to be a leader in education and cutting-edge research resulting in significant contributions to society-at-large.
Current and Long Range Goals
Enroll Strategically - To create a responsive system for budgeting, planning, and evaluation which includes an ongoing assessment of goal achievement and monitoring of external factors (e.g., demographics, socio economics, diversity) resulting in the ultimate goal of establishing a sustainable enrollment management process which will ensure fiscal viability and high quality and diverse students.
University Governance - To develop and sustain an effective shared governance structure reliant upon clearly articulated shared principles and values that substantively engages all constituencies (faculty, staff, students, and Board members) with the end result being a structure that ensures all members of the university community have the format to communicate clearly and participate collaboratively in achieving the university’s mission and goals.
Diversity/Inclusion - To create and maintain an inclusive community which values, affirms, and advances the diverse backgrounds, interests, experiences, and aspirations of all its members. Achieving diversity requires working toward building a community that is more reflective of our society. Fostering a campus culture that embraces diversity will advance the intellectual and social vitality of the Lehigh community, and confirm the symbiotic relationship between diversity and academic excellence.
Global Initiatives - To design a long-term approach that has multiple areas of focus in order to transform fully the life and learning at the university. The guiding principle is to ensure that internationalization, in all its dimensions, pervades the university’s intellectual, cultural, and social life and becomes a signature of Lehigh University, evident to faculty, staff, and both undergraduate and graduate students—whether potential or enrolled—from the day they set foot on campus.
Outreach/Alumni/External Relations - To increase and build upon existing outreach and partnership efforts in order to enhance the recognition and visibility of Lehigh across a broad range of constituents including: alumni, students, faculty and staff, trustees, advisory boards, corporations and foundations, hospitals, government (federal, state, local, and international), neighborhood groups, local merchants, economic development organizations, prospective students and parents, other universities and institutions, the media, and the general public.
Supporting Goals
Physical Infrastructure - To create a flexible, responsive, and integrated approach for the development of priorities and planning, systematic evaluation, resource allocation and budget process that will support the university future priorities (academic and non-academic) relating to physical infrastructure.
IT infrastructure - To position Lehigh University as a recognized national leader with respect to IT infrastructure which supports and enhances research, instruction, administration and campus life.