The Strategic Plan for Guilford College 2005-2010

Creative Leadership for the 21st Century

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The Board of Trustees of Guilford College approved a comprehensive, five-year strategic plan for the college in October 2004, including commitments to "practical liberal arts education" and lifelong learning opportunities for approximately 3,300 students age 16 and older by the fall of 2009.

The strategic plan recommits the college to excellence in undergraduate education and to teaching as its core business. The college will concentrate on preparing students to engage in principled problem solving as a means to contribute not only to the practical education of students but as a way to contribute creative solutions to existing and emerging problems in the community, state, nation and world.

The plan reaffirms the college's Quaker identity as well its core values of community, diversity, equality, excellence, integrity, justice and stewardship.

The strategic planning process produced a restatement of the mission of the college, as follows: "To provide a transformative, practical, and excellent liberal arts education that produces critical thinkers in an inclusive, diverse environment, guided by Quaker testimonies of community, equality, integrity, peace, and simplicity and emphasizing the creative problem solving skills, experience, enthusiasm, and international perspectives necessary to promote positive change in the world."

Strategic planning covered two years, 2002-04, and was a comprehensive, highly participatory process that was data driven. The college will review the plan annually and change it as needed to meet shifting circumstances and emerging opportunities.

The focal points of the plan are:

Questions regarding the Strategic Long Range Plan should be directed to Jeff Favolise, Assistant to the President for Planning and Management, at 316-2845.