The Plan at a Glance

Strategic Focus:

Academic Excellence, Faithfulness to Mission, Impact on Students' Lives

Key Initiatives:

Educational Distinctiveness

  • Deliver the Concordia experience at a new level of excellence.
  • Strengthen marks of program quality.
  • Harness the collective strength of programs that express Concordia's mission as a Lutheran college.
  • Improve faculty compensation and development.

Empowering Community

  • Develop leaders of uncommon accomplishment and uncommon service to church and society.
  • Recruit students who are talented, inquisitive and eager to reach their potential in all spheres of life.
  • Enhance diversity of backgrounds and perspectives in the campus community.
  • Strengthen connections between college life and students' future. 

Enhanced Profile

  • Tell the Concordia story to a new group of students in a highly compelling way.
  • Articulate Concordia's distinctiveness.
  • Strengthen presence in key markets and among key constituents.

    Enhanced Profile.

Fiscal Balance

  • Secure new resources and ensure wise management of existing ones.
  • Increase the endowment.
  • Acquire resources to accomplish the strategic plan initiatives.  

Facilities/Technology

  • Enhance community life and support programs.
  • Complete the Campus Center.
  • Plan science and library facilities.
  • Upgrade technology.