{"id":145,"date":"2019-11-07T11:23:19","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T16:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/strategic-plan\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2019-11-07T11:23:19","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T16:23:19","slug":"strategic-plan-2025-project-soar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/strategic-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategic Plan 2025 &#8211; Project Soar"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"prpl-homepage-hero\"><div class=\"image-wrapper\" style=\"background-image: url(\/responsive-media\/cache\/strategic-plan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/224\/2019\/11\/campus-aerial.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg);\"><div class=\"prpl-desktop-only-video\" data-src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/224\/2019\/11\/soar-homepage-background.mp4\" data-poster=\"\/strategic-plan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/224\/2019\/11\/campus-aerial.jpg\" data-alt=\"Aerial photo of campus\" data-av1=\"\"><\/div><h1 id=\"content-start\">Strategic Plan 2025 - Project Soar<\/h1><\/div><\/div><div class=\"prpl-band no-margin\"><div class=\"text-content\">\n<p>Project Soar 2025, the University&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/strategic-plan\/vision-and-values\/\">strategic plan<\/a>, supports the campus community&#8217;s shared vision: to be nationally recognized as a premier public university, serving 25,000 students with programs from bachelor\u2019s to PhD, providing our students with a welcoming, supportive and responsive experience that enables post-graduate success, continuing to be affordable and accessible, acclaimed for our research contributions, valued for our community and business partnerships, fiscally sound and nimble in our business practices, and diverse in our students and employees.<\/p>\n<p>The plan is structured around three guiding \u201cPillars\u201d or themes, each pointing toward and promoting student success at every level of the institution. It is built on the foundation of an entrepreneurial approach that empowers us to be persistently innovative and demonstrably effective in promotion of every policy and practice that will improve academic quality, promote student success and augment institutional communication and efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>We invite you to read this plan. For more information, please email <a href=\"mailto:projectsoar2025@montclair.edu\">projectsoar2025@montclair.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"prpl-row\"><div class=\"prpl-column one-third\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/strategic-plan\/vision-and-values\/\" class=\"photo-button version-3\"><span class='image-holder'><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/strategic-plan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/224\/2019\/11\/2019-11-13_sp-graduation.jpg\" 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alt=\"Wide view of commencement\"\/><\/span><span class='text-content'> Vision and Values<\/span><\/a>\n<\/div><div class=\"prpl-column one-third\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/strategic-plan\/student-success\/\" class=\"photo-button version-3\"><span class='image-holder'><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/strategic-plan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/224\/2019\/11\/2019-11-13_sp-student-studying.jpg\" 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alt=\"Student in lounge studying notes\"\/><\/span><span class='text-content'> Student Success<\/span><\/a>\n<\/div><div class=\"prpl-column one-third\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/strategic-plan\/an-entrepreneurial-strategy\/\" class=\"photo-button version-3\"><span class='image-holder'><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/strategic-plan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/224\/2019\/11\/2019-11-13_entrepreneurial.jpg\" 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alt=\"Students at school of business luncheon\"\/><\/span><span class='text-content'> An Entrepreneurial Strategy<\/span><\/a>\n<\/div><\/div><br \/>\n<div class=\"prpl-row\"><div class=\"prpl-column one-third\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/strategic-plan\/pillar-one\/\" class=\"photo-button version-3\"><span class='image-holder'><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/strategic-plan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/224\/2019\/11\/2019-11-13_sp-mentor.jpg\" 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alt=\"Student and mentor reviewing a presentation\"\/><\/span><span class='text-content'> Pillar One: Fostering Student Transformation<\/span><\/a>\n<\/div><div class=\"prpl-column one-third\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/strategic-plan\/pillar-two\/\" class=\"photo-button version-3\"><span class='image-holder'><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/strategic-plan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/224\/2019\/11\/2019-11-13_opening-day-diversity.jpg\" 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alt=\"Diverse group of incoming freshman on opening day\"\/><\/span><span class='text-content'> Pillar Two: Growing Through Diversity and Access<\/span><\/a>\n<\/div><div class=\"prpl-column one-third\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/strategic-plan\/pillar-three\/\" class=\"photo-button version-3\"><span class='image-holder'><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/strategic-plan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/224\/2019\/11\/2019-11-13_sp-student-microscope.jpg\" 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alt=\"Student in laboratory using binocular microscope\"\/><\/span><span class='text-content'> Pillar Three: Discovery and Application of Knowledge<\/span><\/a>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"prpl-band lt-gray scalable image-right\"><div class=\"image-wrapper\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/strategic-plan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/224\/2019\/11\/2019-11-13_sp-fsb-exterior.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/strategic-plan\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/224\/2019\/11\/2019-11-13_sp-fsb-exterior.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"exterior view of the Feliciano School of Business\"\/><\/div><div class=\"text-content\">\n<h2>Path to the Plan<\/h2>\n<p>Beginning in Fall 2017 the University launched an extensive program of data gathering, analysis and consultation which resulted in PROJECT SOAR. 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