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Planning Components

Our Strategic Plan is the overarching document that captures what we hope to accomplish from a broad perspective. Our Planning Database assists us in recording and tracking goals, as well as providing a way to request additional funding for goals that your normal operating budgets cannot support. The Master Plan is the document approved through the Board of Regents which outlines our projected campus needs in terms of our physical and functional relationships through 2014. The Budget Plan is approved by Board of Regents for a given fiscal year and includes additional Initiative Requests supported by strategic funds as approved through the Budget Advisory Council (BAC). The Facilities Plan is managed by our recently developed Facilities Planning Advisory group. This group is responsible for managing the work flow of our physical growth; including requests for renovations and space usage changes, as well as implementation Master Plan construction projects. The External Plan refers to the work of the Division of University Advancement, which coordinates alumni outreach, fundraising, and the University Foundation. Each of these components plays a crucial part in our overall planning effort at VSU.

"A good strategic plan is a live document. Our vision should be a powerful and pervasive one.... You and I are going to develop a plan that will set the campus on a quest to reach this vision."

- President Ronald M. Zaccari