Implementation Plan Receives Midpoint Touch-Up
NC State’s Wolfpack 2030 strategic plan is operationalized through three-year implementation plans. This past fall, with the current implementation plan nearing its halfway point, the cabinet considered a few minimal and meaningful adjustments to the living document. The adjusted plan, posted in late January, includes:
- three new initiatives,
3.7 – Expand transfer student access through Wolfpack Connect and related initiatives.
3.8 – Transition NC State’s learning management system to Canvas by Instructure.
9.7 – Guide universitywide compliance with the American with Disabilities Act (ADA) updated standards for accessibility in digital spaces.
- revised strategy and initiatives on community engaged scholarship to align with self-study findings from NC State’s recent and successful Carnegie Community Engagement Reclassification, and
- a new section at the bottom of the plan, housing eleven initiatives that met major milestones and entered a continuous improvement phase.
NC State’s approaches to drive accountability and progress also receive touch-up
Institutional Effectiveness (IE) oversees the Wolfpack 2030 implementation plans. Under this adjusted implementation plan, IE’s Strategy and Implementation Team (SIT) continues its practice of quarterly check-in calls with initiative contacts while also introducing a new practice: biannual check-ins after an initiative transitions to core work and continuous improvement. Quarterly and biannual check-ins invite contacts to reflect: what’s been achieved since the last call, and what, if any, barriers or challenges are at hand or anticipated?
Questions about the implementation plan? Contact Courtney Thornton, associate vice provost for strategy, implementation and communication, Institutional Effectiveness, at chthornt@ncsu.edu.
