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Through Becoming Lafayette, our College community will discuss, develop, and initiate fresh and bold strategic priorities to advance Lafayette’s excellence, inclusiveness, and opportunities for all.

Our Strategic Planning Process

Dec 2022 - March 2023

Phase 1:
Envisioning Our Future

As our strategic goals take shape, community discussions will help identify the critical objectives that our plan should address.

April - Dec 2023

Phase 2:
Clarifying our Mission, Values, and Strategic Priorities

Through open conversations and collaborative brainstorming, we reflect on Lafayette’s promise, identify major opportunities, and develop strategic themes.

Draft Iterations

Jan - April 2024

Phase 3:
Building Our Strategy - Part A

We engage with campus-wide working groups to develop goals and action items.

Strategic Plan Development - Part A

May - Oct 2024

Phase 4:
Building Our Strategy - Part B

Here, we work together to create and adopt a detailed strategic plan to achieve our goals.

Strategic Plan Development - Part B

Phase 5:
Realizing Our Promise

Step by step, year by year, action by action, together we will make our strategic plan a reality.

Strategic Plan's Priorities and Associated Goals

From the President

“It has been roughly 15 years since the College’s last comprehensive strategic plan was established. Obviously, much has changed since then on campus and in the community, across higher education, and in the ways we live and work. Building a strategic plan that will guide College decision making for the years ahead presents all of us with a critical opportunity to chart our future together.” – President Nicole Farmer Hurd

Committees and Working Groups

Strategic Planning News & Updates

From news.lafayette.edu

All Recent News

Jul 24, 2026

Lafayette to join prestigious international Entente Cordiale Challenge

Lafayette will engage with other prestigious U.S. colleges and universities and students from France and the U.K.

Apr 9, 2025

New endowed professorship advances ‘Democracy and Its Technologies’ strategic initiative

Lafayette College today announced an anonymous $3 million alumni donation to create a new endowed professorship.

Feb 25, 2025

Lafayette strategic plan gets major boost with $5M gift

Lafayette College today announced a $5 million gift from real estate entrepreneur J.B. Reilly ’83, P’16,18 and his wife, Kathleen P’16,18, to support…

Feb 20, 2025

New endowed professorship strengthens interdisciplinary scholarship and research

Lafayette College is pleased to announce the Birle Family Endowed Professorship in Interdisciplinary Scholarship and Research.

For additional information about planning underway at the College, please see our Campus Master Plan website.