With the spring semester well underway, I’ve been impressed with all we’ve been able to accomplish as a community. We’ve moved closer to a more typical pre-COVID academic year, with 1,092 in-person undergraduate course sections, 213 in-person graduate course sections and thousands of attendees, collectively, at our sporting events, art shows and performances. This semester, faculty offered at least 59 new courses on topics that reflect their creativity and desire to provide contemporary content to students.
As we chart the university’s path forward over the next decade, we are embarking on a strategic planning effort being led by Provost Nathan Urban and Vice President of Strategic Planning Christine “Chris” Cook. Lehigh last published its strategic plan in 2009, and we will start there. What did we say we would do? What did we accomplish? What did we not make progress on, and why? We need to take an accounting of our efforts before we can start the actual work on a new plan.
