OnePLNU

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Over the last few years, our campus community has wrestled with both the opportunities and the challenges on the horizon of PLNU’s future. Essential to these future assessments has always been PLNU’s core identity as a vital, Christian community committed to fully becoming who God is calling us to be.

Our commitment to “becoming” and “being” requires the hard work of learning, discovery, faith in Christ, seeking wisdom, overcoming challenges and continuous adjustments for relevance and effectiveness. But these commitments and actions are nothing new for PLNU, as they have been part of our DNA from the very beginning. The history of PLNU is filled with examples of changing, overcoming, innovating, and facing great challenges while holding firmly to our mission and calling to be a vital Christian, higher educational community.

Achieving the future and responding to PLNU’s call to prepare this generation of students requires purpose and direction to see and assess opportunities and to overcome the challenges before us. Fortunately, PLNU can build from its great strengths in academics, enrollment, finances, and spiritual commitments as we look to the future. However, PLNU must also build the future in the context of the many changes in higher education. Designing and building a vibrant future in today’s context is PLNU’s opportunity to renew and fulfill our mission for decades to come.

OnePLNU is the university’s comprehensive plan for how we assess opportunities, prepare for potential challenges, and address the evolving future dynamics in higher education. It will be operationalized, regularly assessed, and adjusted as necessary throughout the implementation and operation periods of these priorities. Some of the strategies have already been implemented while others will take time to fully accomplish. 

OnePLNU Framework

1. Mission Fidelity - Faithfully Attending  to Mission Vitality and Expression

  • Clarifying our Mission: Clarify, and where necessary, restate core documents to express and support our Christian mission and core purpose.
  • Aligning with our Mission: Review/refine personnel practices and responsibilities to ensure mission coherence.
  • Training for our Mission: Ensure the vitality of missional culture. Equip faculty, staff and administration with the tools and resources needed to embody our mission.
  • Expressing our Mission: As members of a vital Christian university community, how do we engage ideas and people with civility, faithfulness and grace.

2. Diversity and Belonging - Intentionally Fostering a Flourishing Christian Community

  • Equip: Equip students, faculty, staff and administration with the tools and resources needed for practicing a community of diversity and belonging.
  • Embrace: Help the community embrace the institutional vision for diversity and belonging.
  • Enact: Enact the plan for living out diversity & belonging through our people, policies, procedures and practices.
  • Expand: Expand the diversity of the PLNU community and its ability to live out its values of diversity and belonging.

3. Tomorrow’s Academy - Educating students for a dynamic future

  • Orient for the Future 
    • Pathways and Partnerships
    • GE Revision
    • Aligning our Language: Clarifying our communication about programs and modalities
  • Organize for the Future 
    • Academic Reorganization 
    • GPS All-In
  • Optimize for the Future 
    • TUG Enrollment - Determine the optimum TUG enrollment target
    • Faculty Comp study
    • Academic Portfolio Management

4. Financial Stewardship - Intentionally Securing our Future 

  • Charting the Course: Gain a Clear Understanding of Current Financial Realities and Foreseeable Financial Needs
    • Fully understand needs to be funded by the PLNU operating budget 
    • Campus Master Plan - understand long-term physical space needs and establish priorities 
  • Navigating the Course: Develop the Disciplines necessary to properly care for and grow our physical and financial assets
    • Create the operating disciplines necessary to annually generate a meaningful net income 
    • Strategically invest PLNU’s financial assets 
    • Establish and broaden a “culture of giving” within PLNU’s donor base, beginning with the upcoming Comprehensive Campaign

Strategic Priority Working Groups

Mission Fidelity

Working Group 1A: Clarifying our Mission: Clarify, and where necessary, restate core documents to express and support our Christian mission and core purpose.

Working Group Chair: 
Ron Benefiel

Working Group Members: 
Bob Brower
Lora Fleming
Bill Wood
Jake Gilbertson
Samara Timms

Working Group 1B: Aligning with our Mission: Review/refine personnel practices and responsibilities to ensure mission coherence.

Working Group Chair: 
Samara Timms

Working Group Members:
Joe LaLuzerne 
Leo Santiago
Cindy Chappell
Holly Irwin
Dave Cummings
Heather Lovstead
Rachelle Wong

Working Group 1C: Training for our Mission: Ensure the vitality of missional culture. Equip faculty, staff and administration with the tools and resources needed to embody our mission.

Working Group Chair: 
Mary Paul

Working Group Members:
Matthieu Rouffet
Kara Lyons Pardue 
George Williamson 
Esteban Trujillo 
Montague Williams 
Jo Clemmons 
Anita LaMotte 
Nicole Cosby 
Christine Parks 
Derek Taylor

Diversity and Belonging

Working Group 2A: Equip: Equip students, faculty, staff and administration with the tools and resources needed for practicing a community of diversity and belonging.

Working Group Chair: 
Walter Augustine

Working Group Members:
Pam Macias 
Danielle Brown Friberg  
Maya Walker
Walter Cho 
Pamela Harris 
Dione Brooks Taylor 
Nicole Cosby 
Kathy Lee 
Jong Yoon 
Maria Zack*
Miya Rutz 
Taylor Floyd

Working Group 2B: Embrace: Help the community embrace the institutional vision for diversity and belonging.

Working Group Chair: 
Walter Augustine

Working Group Members:
Jake Gilbertson  
Kimberly White 
Alfonso Esquer
Esteban Trujillo 
Nicole Morales 
Paula Cronovich 
Maria Zack*

Working Group 2C: Enact: Enact the plan for living out diversity & belonging through our people, policies, procedures and practices.

Working Group Chair: 
Walter Augustine

Working Group Members:
Jon Krapivkin 
Jo Clemmons 
Nicole Cosby 
Rebecca Flietstra 
Brian Becker 
Melanie Wolf
Joel Sagawa 
Maria Zack*

Working Group 2D: Expand: Expand the diversity of the PLNU community and its ability to live out its values of diversity and belonging.

Working Group Chair: 
Dana Barger

Working Group Members:
Walter Augustine*
Robert Gailey 
Maria Zack*
Scott Shoemaker
Heather Lovsted
Lori Kall
Amber Nakamura
Heather Ross
Amanda Bolton
Maya Walker
Esteban Trujillo
Daniel Reed

Note: * = Resource Persons

Tomorrow’s Academy

Pathways and Partnerships Working Group

Working Group Chair:
Matthieu Rouffet

Working Group Members:
Lora Fleming
Jamie Brownlee-Turgeon
Lindsey Lupo
Randal Schober
Dave Gladson
Melissa Riley
Jeff Sullivan
Robert Costa
Peter Alkatib

GE Revision Working Group:

Working Group Chair: 
Kelli McCoy 

Working Group Members:
Ben Cater
Karl Martin
Rebecca Flietstra
Catherine Crockett
Ross Oakes Mueller
Kara Lyons-Pardue

Clarification and Communication of Institutional Sectors of Service Working Group:

Working Group Chair:
John Gunther

Working Group Members:
Jamie Brownlee-Turgeon
Cindy Chappell 
Beth Denney
Holly Irwin
Heather Lovsted
Scott Shoemaker
Dave Gladson

Faculty Comp Study Working Group:

Working Group Chair:
Samara Timms

Working Group Members:
Maria Zack
Jim Daichendt
Kerry Fulcher

Academic Portfolio Management Working Group:

Working Group Chair: 
Holly Irwin

Working Group Members:
Jim Daichendt
Kerry Fulcher
April Cordero
Jamie Brownlee-Turgeon
Brent Goodman

Academic Reorg Working Group:

Working Group Chair:
Jim Daichendt

Working Group Members:
Kerry Fulcher
Bill Clemmons
Brad Kelle
Ken Evilsizor
Kelli McCoy
April Cordero
Greg Crow
Jeff Sullivan
Dan Bothe
Nick Pertler
John Gunther
Breeann Kirby

Financial Stewardship

Fully Funded Operating Budget Working Group:

Working Group Chair:
Tim Benefiel 

Working Group Members:
Joe LaLuzerne
DeeDee Alari
Jack Ravasdy 
Dan Toro
Corey Fling
Kevin Kemp
Jen King
Lindsey Lupo
Samara Timms (resource for compensation study and personnel budgeting)

Campus Master Plan Working Group:

Working Group Chair: 
Jeff Bolster

Steering Committee: 
Lora Fleming
Walter Augustine
Dan Toro
Christina Gardner
Ethan Hamilton
Jake Gilbertson
Tim Benefiel
Corey Fling
Jim Daichendt