Strategic Plan
Strategic Planning is the process of defining EWU’s long-term goals and objectives, along with the strategies and actions required to achieve them, while considering internal and external factors.
Our Mission
Eastern Washington University provides an inclusive, equitable, and transformative learning experience, driving the pursuit of knowledge with affordable academic excellence.
Our Vision
Eastern Washington University provides an education rooted in the liberal arts, designed to address the unique challenges and opportunities facing the region. Characterized by a student-centered focus and opportunities for applied learning in high-demand fields, this education creates upward social mobility and intellectual growth for our students that supports a healthy, sustainable, and economically successful region.
Our Values
As a community of learners, we pursue truth and advance knowledge through creative works, research, and scholarship. Our student-centered education provides excellent teaching, dynamic conversations, and a robust intellectual experience both inside and outside the classroom. We provide applied learning opportunities to prepare students for future success, invest in our workforce and create opportunities for professional growth for students, faculty and staff.
Eastern Washington University strives to create a more inclusive, obtainable, and equitable college education.
We are committed to building an inclusive, supportive, and equitable university community. We strive to integrate the principles of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion into all university operations, fostering an environment that nurtures a sense of belonging among all members of the community. Students, staff, and faculty, are seen, understood, and appreciated for the talents they bring to our educational community.
We promote economic vitality and regional success through scholarly research, dedicated service, and educational programs that meet regional workforce needs in high-demand fields. When combined with our commitment to a liberal arts education, we enhance social mobility, inclusivity, and the well-being of our community while remaining nimble to its ever-changing demands.
We embrace all students. Students’ needs are complex, and student success requires student engagement and positive outcomes. We are committed to supporting all our students with a focus on creating conditions informed by the needs of our first-generation, low-income, and other structurally marginalized students.
We are leaders committed to sustainability as a balance between the needs of the environment, the needs of the economy, and equitable outcomes for current and future generations
Our Goals
For the 2024-2029 strategic plan, we have focused our goals into four pillars.
Student Success and Student Experience
EWU will reshape institutional practices to improve enrollment (recruitment and retention), promote student success, and close structural equity gaps.
Belonging Through Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Through the active engagement and continuous learning of students, faculty, staff, and administrators, as well as an unwavering commitment to equitable practices, Eastern Washington University will create an environment that fosters a sense of belonging, actively promotes and sustains equity, dismantles systemic barriers, and embraces the unique perspectives of all individuals.
Investing in Our People and Places
EWU fosters an equitable, sustainable and supportive physical and social environment that encourages the recruitment, retention and engagement of the EWU community.
Regional Anchor / Regional Impact
EWU will launch initiatives that focus on applied educational programming, interdisciplinary approaches, scholarly research, community engagement, and athletic excellence. EWU will position its graduates to fill workforce needs and as pivotal contributors to regional needs, equity, and social and economic mobility. EWU will make its campus a model of sustainability through aggressive decarbonization and other initiatives that involve students, faculty and staff.
Outcomes & Strategies
Explore the evolving strategies and anticipated outcomes as we refine and finalize our direction.
Strategic Planning is how EWU sets its long-term goals and plans the actions needed to achieve them, considering both internal and external factors.
