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Oct 31, 2025·StrategicPlan
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South Dakota State University State of the University 2025
This 'State of the University 2025' address reviews South Dakota State University's progress and outlines future aspirations guided by its strategic plan, 'Pathway to Premiere'. The plan focuses on achieving excellence through transformative education, cultivating and strengthening community engagement, and fostering innovation by increasing research, scholarship, and creative activities. The university also prioritizes maintaining financial health, improving infrastructure, and ensuring campus safety, with an overarching vision to lead the state in academics, student success, research, and outreach as a premier land-grant institution.
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The strategic plan for South Dakota State University focuses on achieving excellence through transformative education, cultivating community engagement, fostering innovation and research, and promoting a high-performing, healthy university environment. It emphasizes workforce and economic development, expanding outreach, enhancing opportunities, and increasing research, scholarship, and creative activity. The plan also aims to foster a culture of leadership and continuous improvement to advance the university's mission and vision.
May 7, 2025·StrategicPlan
Board
South Dakota State University Strategic Plan 2030
The strategic plan for South Dakota State University aims to achieve excellence through transformative education, cultivate community engagement, foster innovation, increase research, scholarship, and creative activity, and be a growing, high-performing, and healthy university. The plan focuses on workforce and economic development, expanding outreach, enhancing opportunities, and supporting innovation to highlight the university's impact, while also promoting a culture of leadership and the ongoing pursuit of excellence.
Oct 2, 2024·StrategicPlan
Board
South Dakota State University State of the University Address
This document, a 2024 State of the University Address, outlines South Dakota State University's progress and future trajectory under its "Pathway to Premiere" strategic plan. Key pillars include achieving excellence through transformative education, evidenced by record enrollment, high retention, and extensive academic accreditation. The university also prioritizes cultivating and strengthening community engagement through initiatives like SDSU Extension and its growing presence in Sioux Falls. A central focus is fostering innovation and increasing research, scholarship, and creative activity, with a clear objective of achieving R1 classification through significant research expenditures and doctoral student growth. The plan further emphasizes maintaining a growing, high-performing, and healthy university, supported by sound financial management, ongoing facility improvements, and a commitment to core values like integrity and diversity, significantly bolstered by successful fundraising campaigns such as "Bold and Blue."
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