Our Vision
To redefine business and transform lives.
Our Mission
To create positive social, ecological, and economic impact through inclusive, transformative learning, and meaningful research.
Our Values
- Passion: Our passion fuels us. We live to inspire, motivate, collaborate, and innovate for those we serve.
- Real-World Engagement: We thrive in the face of real-world challenges–meeting our students’ needs; engaging with community partners on big issues, and pursuing research with meaningful implications.
- Nurturer of Connections: We actively cultivate and nurture professional connections, so our students, staff, faculty, and community partners flourish. We are a hub for lifetime career networking and development.
- Transformation: Driven by innovation and risk-taking, we create mutually transformative experiences to illuminate purpose and enable personal and professional discovery for positive societal outcomes.
Our Value Propositions
- Essential business mindset and tools for the greatest social impact
- Passionate commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Compelling and relevant research for industry and community
- Leader in community embedded experiential learning
- Lifelong access to learning and career support
- Active and engaged network for life
Our Community Goals
- Job Readiness
- Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
- Experiential & Community-Based Learning
- Inclusive & World-Class Research
- Brand Reputation
These articulations of our vision, mission, values, and goals lead to six Strategic Initiatives. The initiatives are led by Strategic Initiative Facilitators. These facilitators work with existing committees, new task forces, faculty, staff, students, and alumni to execute the plan in such a way that anyone could experience The School of Business and easily recognize our strategy. Below is the full list of initiatives and their programs.
Strategic Initiatives & Programs
1. Bridging Classroom and Career
Value Propositions: 1,2,4,5,6
Engage students and employers in mutually beneficial opportunities to establish The School of Business as a top talent pipeline. Offer the tools, services, and support necessary to empower students and alumni to reach their full potential.
- Program 1: Retention and financial literacy
- Program 2: Vibrant student and alumni communities
- Program 3: Student career readiness
- Program 4: Employer engagement
2. Education 4.0
Value Propositions: 1,4
Implement student-centric contemporary curriculum that leverages technology and applied learning to enable students to acquire 21st century skills.
- Program 1: Exceptional experiential, community-based learning, both locally and globally
- Program 2: Assurance of Learning (AoL) - curriculum continuous improvement through longer-term engagement with faculty
- Program 3: Skills-based certificates and credentials - strategy, resourcing, and market-focused content
- Program 4: Multi-modality courses - maintaining a variety of course modes (on campus, online, remote, and hybrid formats) to accommodate busy student lives
3. Teaching Excellence
Value Propositions: 1,2,4,6
Develop a community of educators who pursue transformational teaching outcomes through innovative approaches.
- Program 1: Effective feedback systems for student experience/faculty experience
- Program 2: Faculty selection and onboarding for teaching excellence
- Program 3: Individual faculty support in teaching/learning
- Program 4: Robust organizational teaching/learning capability
4. Inclusive Business
Value Propositions: 1,2
Foster an inclusive culture and support network to bolster underserved populations, who are leading the future of business.
- Program 1: Underserved student access and success
- Program 2: Faculty and staff inclusion awareness, implementation, and culture change
- Program 3: Strategic diverse talent recruitment and retention
5. Socially, ecologically, and economically relevant research
Value Propositions: 2,3
Support and disseminate The School of Business’s research to heighten impact, relevance, and reputation.
- Program 1: Support faculty research activities through the provision of necessary resources
- Program 2: Facilitate dissemination of faculty research to maximize research impact
- Program 3: Become a hub of intellectual activity by developing partnerships with other institutions and scholars
6. Community Vitality
Value Propositions: 2,4,6
Engage external stakeholders in high impact, meaningful ways from the foundation of a healthy internal community.
- Program 1: Strategic partnerships
- Program 2: 100% faculty and staff onboarding
- Program 3: Healthy internal community: faculty/staff support and fun
Initiative icons created by PSU graphic design and business student Lupita Sanchez Lopez.