We prioritize people by developing our staff so everyone can reach their potential and have room to innovate, and we organize for maximum efficiency with values-driven leadership. We accomplish this through the lense of our guiding principles:
A Culture of Innovation
A Model Built on Creativity, Diversity, and Sustainability
Organized to Serve Learners Well
Values-Driven Leadership
Strategic Initiatives
The initiatives under this pillar will be launched across the five-year period of the strategic plan. The launching initiatives are those that start in year one, 2023.
Coordinate a centralized leadership team - Launching Initiative
Create a Vice Provost Executive Team: Organizing centralized staff to support enterprise strategic planning and initiatives.
Role clarity and equity for staff - Launching Initiative
Transparent and fair processes and practices in place to ensure staff are correctly classified and compensated.
Create framework to assess and determine appropriate staffing resources - Launching Initiative
Analyze organization structure and division to ensure appropriate staffing resources.
Affirm justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion is a core value and integrated in leadership expectations
A multiphased approach that establishes an enterprise culture that embraces and promotes justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion.
Develop and execute internal SAA-GD communication strategy
Build centralized communication strategy and tools so staff are informed and have the tools they need to grow and thrive in their work.
Create manager support and leadership development model
Construct system so that every manager has training, accountability, gap awareness, and support.