Over the last few years, our campus community has wrestled with both the opportunities and the challenges on the horizon of 国产剧麻豆剧鈥檚 future. Essential to these future assessments has always been 国产剧麻豆剧鈥檚 core identity as a vital, Christian community committed to fully becoming who God is calling us to be.
Our commitment to 鈥渂ecoming鈥� and 鈥渂eing鈥� 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 国产剧麻豆剧, as they have been part of our DNA from the very beginning. The history of 国产剧麻豆剧 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 国产剧麻豆剧鈥檚 call to prepare this generation of students requires purpose and direction to see and assess opportunities and to overcome the challenges before us. Fortunately, 国产剧麻豆剧 can build from its great strengths in academics, enrollment, finances, and spiritual commitments as we look to the future. However, 国产剧麻豆剧 must also build the future in the context of the many changes in higher education. Designing and building a vibrant future in today鈥檚 context is 国产剧麻豆剧鈥檚 opportunity to renew and fulfill our mission for decades to come.
One国产剧麻豆剧 is the university鈥檚 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.
The One国产剧麻豆剧 Framework
Cultivating Our Mission
Our mission is both an inheritance and calling. We intentionally weave our Wesleyan-Holiness Christian commitments into the very fabric of university life. We engage hard questions with steadfast faith, being formed together as a community shaped by Christ, and renewing that mission in every generation.
We hold faith and excellence together, clarity and compassion together, conviction and humility together. This priority calls us to embody a living and vibrant Christian university faithful to the promise we have received and to the future we are shaping.
Fostering Community & Belonging
Community is both a gift and calling. It is also a shared invitation, one we receive and live out together through the power of the Holy Spirit. We cultivate a Christ-centered community where differences are approached with generosity, relationships are marked by grace, and every person is treated with dignity. Rooted in Scripture and reflective of the Body of Christ, we pursue a shared life shaped by humility, conviction, and love. In this way, we foster a community where every member knows they belong and where the richness of our diverse gifts strengthens our common life and mission.
Shaping Tomorrow鈥檚 Academy
The landscape of higher education is entering a season of profound change, one that calls for both confidence and imagination. We are neither chasing every trend nor retreating from change. Instead, we are equipping our faculty and staff to lead with wisdom, reimagining how learning takes place, and aligning our programs with the real-world needs our students are called to serve. At the same time, we are intentionally cultivating a vibrant Christian intellectual life that forms students deeply, awakens a clear sense of vocation, and nurtures the lifelong pursuit of wisdom. In doing so, we are shaping an academy that is distinctive in character, innovative in practice, and enduring in its impact.
Stewarding Our Promise
What we have inherited is not ours to simply maintain, but a promise to steward with faithfulness and foresight. We care for our people, the places where life and learning take shape, and the resources entrusted to us, recognizing that each plays a vital role in the flourishing of this university. This work is both practical and profoundly spiritual. It honors the faith and sacrifice of those who came before us and embraces our responsibility to those who will come after us. Through faithful stewardship, we ensure that this university continues to flourish and serve God鈥檚 purposes for generations to come.
The Mission of One国产剧麻豆剧
国产剧麻豆剧 provides students with future-ready education in a healthy, Christ-centered community. To ensure we can continue to fulfill our mission, we need everyone to contribute. By prioritizing a faith-focused culture that reflects the richness of the Kingdom of God, interdisciplinary programs and experiences, and wise stewardship of resources, we can ensure the future of 国产剧麻豆剧 鈥� together.
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:
Kerry Fulcher
Lora Fleming
Bill Wood
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
Community of Belonging
Working Group 2A: Equip: Equip students, faculty, staff and administration with the tools and resources needed for cultivating a community of belonging.
Working Group Chair:
Walter Augustine
Working Group Members:
Danielle Brown Friberg
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 being a community of belonging.
Working Group Chair:
Walter Augustine
Working Group Members:
Alfonso Esquer
Esteban Trujillo
Nicole Morales
Paula Cronovich
Maria Zack*
Working Group 2C: Enact: Enact policies, procedures and practices that shape 国产剧麻豆剧 as a community of belonging.
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 国产剧麻豆剧 community and its ability to live out its values of 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
Esteban Trujillo
Daniel Reed
Note: * = Resource Persons
Tomorrow鈥檚 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
Tim Benefiel
Corey Fling
Jim Daichendt