Strategic Goal 1: Strengthen the commitment of the entire CSU community to outstanding undergraduate, graduate, distance and continuing educational programs characterized by disciplinary depth and rigorous breadth with a high level of direct interaction between faculty and students.

Subgoal 1.1: Emphasize the development of fluency in oral and written communication, quantitative reasoning and critical thinking skills, skill with technology relevant to the field of study, creativity, professional and personal ethics and diligence in all educational programs.

Subgoal 1.3: Promote curricular reform and innovation in all areas of the academic program.

Subgoal 1.4: Offer a variety of quality, well supported graduate degree programs including doctoral programs that are consistent with the university's educational mission, increase the enrollment of outstanding students and develop sources of increased funding for all graduate programs.

Subgoal 1.5: Expand CSU's continuing and distance education programs to populations CSU has not served in the past.

Strategic Goal 2: Continue to recruit and retain a dedicated, caring and culturally diverse faculty whose teaching is informed by research and embodies engaging learning experiences that enable students to flourish academically and personally.

Subgoal 2.1: Support and enhance the professional stature of faculty.

Subgoal 2.2: Support faculty members to secure the time, financial support and collaborations to maximize their success in research, scholarship, grantsmanship and other creative activities.

Strategic Goal 3: Improve recruitment, retention and graduation of a culturally and economically diverse student body while increasing the number of well-prepared and academically able students entering the nurturing environment that facilitating development of the whole person to become an accomplished, balanced, civil, competent, caring, creative global citizen.

Strategic Goal 4: Foster a collaborative and intellectually stimulating community that promotes academic freedom, mutual respect, integrity, high expectations of academic and professional achievement and work productivity for its graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, administrators and staff and provides community rituals and programs in order to engender loyalty, commitment and a sense of community.

Strategic Goal 5: Enhance the ability and accountability of all divisions and levels of the university to provide excellent service, sufficient resources, efficient operations, and a humane atmosphere to all students, faculty, administrators and staff.

Subgoal 5.1: Eliminate the backlog of deferred maintenance.

Subgoal 5.2: Increase the functional usefulness of campus structures, the personal safety of CSU community members and the beauty of the campus.

Subgoal 5.3: Build a state-of-the-art library and a convocation center.

Subgoal 5.4: Increase service orientation, office efficiency, professional, consistency, predictability and humane atmosphere throughout the university.

Subgoal 5.5: Enhance accountability, performance, professionalism and advancement of administrators and staff and improve official communication systems throughout the campus.

Strategic Goal 6: Reorganize and strengthen Information Technology, Media Production and Media Services so that they will support both the academic and administrative functions of the university and the deployment of new and innovative teaching and research technologies as they become available.

Strategic Goal 7: Diversify revenue resources to increase the contribution of the private sector and the federal government and employ excellent management practices of human, financial and physical resources to increase effectiveness and efficiency in all areas.