1925-2025: Centennial Milestone—Opportunities and Strategies
Working together over the past year, the campus community has begun to design a renewed vision for the University. A new Strategic Planning Committee of the Board of Trustees works with a Strategic Planning Committee at CGU led by the Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and includes deans, key faculty, staff, and student representatives. These committees are crafting a unique “Point of View,” articulating our value statement, establishing our guiding principles, and formulating and testing our strategic options.
In addition to developing a renewed vision for the University, Claremont Graduate University is in the process of developing online educational offerings that align with our mission and is investigating the possibility of adding a limited number of undergraduate classes leading to the completion of a bachelor’s degree combined with a graduate degree.
Claremont Graduate University recognizes that its relatively small size creates advantages of intimacy and agility while also presenting challenges of scale and scope. The University will continue to evolve its strategic vision to take advantage of its size by enhancing collaboration across the seven schools and across The Claremont Colleges, growing through expansion or acquisition, and creating partnerships that strengthen its capacity to advance knowledge with impact beyond CGU. The University will continue to nurture the human capital of its world-class faculty.
As a graduate-only University, CGU does not benefit from the economics of undergraduate instruction, and is particularly mindful of the need to grow and balance the sources of its financial income among tuition, endowment, and research. As to the endowment, the outcomes of CGU’s effective strategic planning process have provided a strong foundation for a capital campaign that the University expects to launch in the near term.
The University community is well aware that graduate education is undergoing sweeping change on national and global levels and recognizes that CGU must not simply adapt to the change, but also anticipate and shape it. The University is entering this new era with confidence that Claremont Graduate University will be a leader.