The Penn State Strategic Plan
Join us as we shape a new future for our University.
Our Vision
To elevate Penn State’s standing as a world-class institution, our Strategic Plan will help us transform the educational experience for our students, cultivate a welcoming community where everyone feels proud to be a Penn Stater, embolden our world-class research, champion health care, and deliver on the promise of our land-grant mission.
The community-informed Strategic Plan
Every University unit, college, and campus helped shape our goals, objectives, and measures.
The revised Strategic Plan is pending final approval from the Board of Trustees.
Our Goals
We will advance these six priority areas, led by agility, purpose, and opportunity.
Enhancing student success
With a focus on access and affordability, we are committed to providing a transformational education to help students succeed inside and outside the classroom and be highly employable after graduation.
Growing (inter)disciplinary research excellence
We will pursue groundbreaking discoveries that exemplify our commitment to positively impact our communities.
Increasing land-grant impact
As Pennsylvania’s only land-grant university, we will focus on the needs of our communities to promote economic development and research innovation, grow the workforce, and help local businesses, while providing a world-class education to students across the state.
Fostering diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging
We are dedicated to supporting diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging so our students, faculty, and staff can fully realize their potential in an environment of inclusive excellence.
Transforming health care through academic and clinical synergy
Through our unified academic health system, we will drive advancements in state-of-the-art patient care, public health initiatives, medical education, and research to serve our region, the commonwealth and society in unparalleled ways.
This goal will be following a unique timeline and process. The community will be asked for feedback on this goal after a draft is completed.
Transforming internal operations
We are reimagining how we teach, work and collaborate to make Penn State easy to navigate for all students, faculty and staff by identifying opportunities to better serve students and focusing on effective and efficient fiscal stewardship as a modern university.
Instead of pursuing its own trajectory, the goals outlined above will be supported by initiatives to Transform Internal Operations to help provide the necessary infrastructure and support for implementation.
Mission
Driven by our teaching, research and public service mission.
Vision
Guided by our vision for the future and realized through purpose, agility and opportunity.
Values
Rooted in our Penn State Values of integrity, respect, responsibility, discovery, excellence and community.
Latest Updates
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Penn State shares community-informed institutional strategic plan (Apr. 2025)
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Phase two, community review of Penn State’s draft strategic plan concludes (Dec. 2024)
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Additional community input sought for the draft Penn State Strategic Plan (Nov. 2024)
- Penn Staters invited to share feedback on draft Strategic Plan proposal (Sept. 2024)
- Progress continues to develop the new Penn State Strategic Plan (June 2024)
- Phase two of vision, strategic planning poised to begin (Feb. 2024)
- Progress moves forward on first phase of Bendapudi’s vision, key goals (Oct. 2023)
- Phased work begins this summer to advance Bendapudi’s vison, key goals (July 2023)
- Purpose, agility, opportunity: President Bendapudi shares vision for Penn State (Feb. 2023)