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
- Serving All Students - Clarity and communication of Institutional Sectors of Service for GRAD/AUG/TUG
- 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
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