Strategic Planning

Strategic Vision 2025-2035

Fairmont State will achieve our vision of becoming a “great place” by focusing on three Aspirational Goals:

1. Provide grounded educational experiences, fueled by personal relationships and holistic support, which contribute to all students’ successful careers and lives.
2. Become the premier higher education employer in West Virginia for full-time, part-time, and student employees.
3. Create a vibrant campus, where everybody is welcomed, valued, and wants to spend time, which serves as a bedrock institution for North-Central West Virginia.

Each of these Aspirational Goals identifies five Priorities to guide our efforts.

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Implementation Plans

The Strategic Vision is being operationalized through 11 interconnected three-year Implementation Plans, which collectively will form the Strategic Plan.  All Implementation Plans will contain no more than five SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound) Objectives that will be used to measure progress toward our Aspirational Goals and Priorities. They also include Key Results, timelines, and estimates of the funds required.

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Dashboards

Progress towards achieving Implementation Plans’ Objectives will be tracked and shared via public-facing dashboards. Data will be updated regularly, based on established University processes (e.g., after census or when survey results are available). Note that while data already exists for some Objectives, others will require us to establish baselines in Year 1 of their Implementation Plans.

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