A Letter From the President

Campus Collage

Borderlines

In Focus

Expanded Bookshelf

Opportunities For Giving

Helping To Make CSU, Chico Better

Trees endure as a Chico symbol. John Bidwell's cherry orchard provided the site for the original Chico State campus, and the university's varied foliage and leaf-covered lawns remain its signature. It seemed fitting to present CSU, Chico's Strategic Plan in this context. The mission and vision statements bear the weight of the university's purpose, firmly rooted in tradition and values; priorities, continually changing and growing, branch out from there.

Our Vision

California State University, Chico sees its unique residential situation as an opportunity to create an intensive, high-quality learning environment. We are able to create a vital and collaborative community of active and involved students. We have a well-respected and caring faculty, a superior support staff, and innovative leadership together with cutting-edge learning and information resources-all placed within a beautiful and engaging physical environment. In such an enriched community, we hope to stimulate intellectual rigor, moral development, and creative accomplishment and to evoke callings to imaginative citizenship in the worlds beyond the university. We aspire to be the university of choice for all those seeking these strengths.

Our Mission

California State University, Chico is a comprehensive university serving Northern California and other regions of the state, as well as the nation and the world, through instruction, research, and public service. Our first priority is the education of our students by creating and maintaining selected quality undergraduate and graduate programs. We will be known for the purposeful integration of liberal and applied learning that provides our students with the knowledge, skills, and moral and intellectual virtues that form the basis for life-long learning and contribution. We affirm the importance of scholarship and public service. We support the exploration of the frontiers of knowledge, the integration of ideas, the connecting of thought to action, and the inspiring of students. We make the results of these academic efforts available for public scrutiny by all our constituents. We will maintain extensive continuing education and public service programs that serve the needs of our varied constituencies.

Our Priorities

1. Believing in the primacy of student learning, we will continue to develop high-quality learning environments both in and outside of the classroom.
2. Believing in the importance of faculty and staff, and their role in student success, we will continue to invest in faculty and staff development.
3. Believing in the value of the wise use of new technologies in learning and teaching, we will continue to provide the technology, the related training, and the support needed to create high-quality learning environments both in and outside of the classroom.
4. Believing in the value of service to others, we will continue to serve the educational, cultural, and economic needs of Northern California.
5. Believing that we are accountable to the people of the State of California, we will continue to diversify our sources of revenue and manage the resources entrusted to us. For additional details included in the Strategic Plan, go to Web address: www.csuchico.edu/catalog/front/plan.html or call the Provost's Office at 530-898-6101 and request a copy.