A new institution-wide strategic plan maps our path to 2020 and beyond.

The strategic planning process is entering the final weeks of its first phase, setting goals to achieve the college-wide priorities set out in “The Journey Forward.”

Winter 2012 information on strategic planning.

Frequently asked questions about Lewis & Clark’s strategic planning, winter 2012.

In some of my earliest remarks to the Lewis & Clark community I noted that what drew me to the College were the people—faculty, staff, students, administrators, trustees, and alumni—and my experience has more than confirmed my view that assembled here is a truly extraordinary community dedicated to the enterprise of higher education. What I suspected was the case is indeed so: we are poised to become one of the best and most highly regarded institutions of higher learning in the nation. 

In October 2005 then-President Thomas Hochstettler charged a planning task force with the development of a strategic plan for the College. The result of that effort was an April 27, 2006 “Report from the Planning Task Force” that articulated five core values for the College and six goals, supported by thirty-four recommendations. Notably, this was the first time in their common history that all three schools of the College were able to come to a shared expression of the mission, identity, and concomitant goals of the institution as a whole.