How will we reach the goal?

Intentional focus with an equity-minded lens across six strategic dimensions lies at the heart of Equity 2030. These strategic dimensions undergird Minnesota State core values and mission:

Enhanced Access to a higher education by strengthening partnerships and collaboration with K-12, business and industry, community-based organizations, and philanthropic partners to expand and grow current programming and identify new ways to support students

 

Academic Success by establishing guided learning pathways that focus on academic preparation, progression, and accomplishment within an area of study and career

 

Student Engagement within the institution, both academic and non-academic, including supporting basic needs

 

Evidence-based decision making by building a technology infrastructure and expanding capacity for deeper data analytics

 

Financial Resources for students and growing the financial resource base for campuses

 

Workforce and Talent Diversity by incorporating the local and national context with the changing student and employee demographics and needs - focusing on cultural competence development, inclusive hiring practices, and improved campus climate

 

Our work often spans several of the six dimensions simultaneously. For example, to ensure student success, we rely on data to know about who our students are and what they need, we work across campus and our communities to support their basic needs as well as their intellectual needs and connect them to jobs.

All of this is what we do now, at every one of the 26 colleges and 7 universities. What is different about Equity 2030 is not "what" we do, but "how" we do it.

Equity 2030 is the integral thread, helping us succeed by focusing our work and clearly defining where we have opportunities to build additional capacity. As part of the multi-phase and multi-year planning required to achieve Equity 2030, we will begin by focusing on:

• Supporting and expanding student-centered policies and programs
• Developing equity-minded, evidenced-based and data-informed practices for monitoring and assessment
• Facilitating and advancing leadership and professional development to support Equity 2030