Student Affairs at Illinois | Strategic Plan 2021-2026
Below are links to view the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Challenges (SWOC) that students, division members, and stakeholders outside of Student Affairs shared during various SWOC Summits in fall 2019.
This input is being analyzed and used to formulate the division’s strategic initiatives.
Thank you to all those who shared their voices during the SWOC Summits!
SWOC Data (PDF | 192 KB)
SWOC Worksheets (PDF | 93 KB)
The first key outcome of the Student Affairs Strategic Planning process was the development of new vision, mission and values statements. The planning team determined that the vision and mission statements were interdependent so assigned both of those tasks to the same committee while a second committee developed the values statements.
A Vision statement should describe how Student Affairs should look when it is working well in relation to its environment and key stakeholders.
A Mission statement clarifies what Student Affairs does and why Student Affairs exists—who are we?
A Values statement should articulate how Student Affairs will conduct itself. The statement should answer the question, “How do we treat others, and how do we want to be treated?”
Continue reading “Values”