In 2021, Georgia Tech launched 20 strategic initiatives to advance the goals and objectives of the new strategic plan (2020-2030). These initiatives are highly interdependent and are aligned within and across the strategic plan’s six focus areas.
Initiatives
AdminX
Improving the administrative experience for our faculty, staff, and students. This has included the establishment of an Administrative Services Center, and continuing transformation of our HR, finance, and other administrative services and processes.
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Anchor Institution
Engaging with communities and organizations near campus and abroad to support social and economic mobility by advancing the public interest through partnerships for education, knowledge production, community engagement, economic development, and strategic management of our operations and physical spaces.
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Arts@Tech
Integrating the arts into education and research while also creating spaces and experiences for students, faculty, staff, and the broader community to come together.
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Athletics Strategy
Outlining what Athletics will do to continue to develop everyday champions who will change the world.
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- Amplify Impact
- Cultivate Well-Being
- Connect Globally
- Expand Access
- Champion Innovation
- Lead by Example
Budget Reform
Creating and implementing a transparent and easy-to-manage budget model that delivers on the Institute’s priorities to promote and reward performance, success, and innovation; foster responsible decision-making; and provide predictable funding.
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Commercialization
Attracting and nurturing the best entrepreneurial minds through six goals that will leverage intentional efforts to make Georgia Tech No. 1 in commercialization and entrepreneurship while reimagining commercialization in academia.
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Comprehensive Campus Plan
Creating optimal places for students to thrive that promote wellness through intentional design of transportation and access to services, and fostering the development of dynamic community partnerships.
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Cultivate Well-Being Roadmap
Guided by the four priority goals of the Cultivate Well-Being Action and Transformation Roadmap, continuing to strengthen clinical care services while expanding primary prevention efforts; expanding and enhancing those institutional attributes and factors that promote health, wellness, and well-being; and mitigating those systemic and cultural elements that have a documented negative impact on well-being.
The four goals include: Cultural Change, Capacity and Creativity, Community and Connection, and Commitment and Continuity.
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Data Excellence
Leveraging data analytic tools and processes to inform decision-making, serving as an example in the protection, management, and governance of data.
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Diversity & Inclusion
We see diversity of backgrounds and perspectives as essential to learning, discovery, and creation. We strive to remove barriers to access and success, and to build an inclusive community where people of all backgrounds have the opportunity to learn and contribute to our mission.
To coordinate the work and monitor the Institute’s progress, the Institute created the Diversity and Inclusion Strategic Leadership Team co-chaired by Steven W. McLaughlin, provost and executive vice president for Academic Affairs and Shantay N. Bolton, executive vice president for Administration and Finance and chief business officer.
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Enrollment Strategy
Comprehensively growing, managing, and supporting enrollment across our K-12, undergraduate, graduate, online, and professional education programs over the next 10 years.
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Global Student Experience
Strengthening Georgia Tech’s global engagement. Exploring and developing new global programming both on Georgia Tech’s campuses and through programs abroad. Enhancing community and the well-being of student, faculty, and staff groups convening around global themes. Supporting increased student participation, with a particular focus on historically under-participating students. Providing the appropriate structural and process support to enable growth.
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GT Atrium
Reinventing Georgia Tech's physical presence on a global, yet localized, scale by offering lifetime learning, upskilling, and career advancement opportunities to Georgia Tech students, alumni, and local community members in cities across the globe — fostering community in a hybrid, click-to-brick environment through both face-to-face and online tools.
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Lifetime Learning
Realizing the Institute’s goal to nurture learners throughout their lifetimes, a new academic unit will be the intersection of pedagogy, technology, and business models offering learning at all credential levels including credit-based programs and professional development (non-credit) programs across the lifetime of an individual — K-gray. This effort is a catalyst for fundamental and applied research in the arena of how technology can expand the essence, quality, and utilization of knowledge and skills for people learning, creating an ecosystem focused on lifetime careers, education, research, advising/mentoring, and services that enable the people and organizations of our state to be the benefactors of this new thinking, empowering them to find solutions to the most pressing global problems and, in so doing, improving higher education and, thus, the human condition.
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Living Our Values Everyday (L.O.V.E. GT)
Creating the Institute culture and conditions necessary to successfully achieve the ambitions set forth in the new Institute strategic plan. Grounded in aligning the practices, behaviors, and experiences of our community with the nine Institute values, our framework for achieving this alignment involves leadership, engagement/communication, and systems/structures/symbols.
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Need-Based Funding
Closing the gap of student need through a multifaceted strategy.
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Research Next
Innovating, strengthening, and optimizing our research enterprise by forging new external partnerships; developing and engaging our research faculty; and improving how we operate as an organization, with an emphasis on our people.
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Sustainability Next
Establishing Georgia Tech as a leader in equitable, economic, and environmental sustainability in Institute operations; sustainable development education; sustainability leadership and transdisciplinary research; culture and organization; climate solutions; and in using our campus as a living learning laboratory.
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Transformative Teaching/Learning
Promoting innovation in teaching and learning practices by providing faculty support to innovate and scale transformative teaching practices, and creating conditions for all students to engage in meaningful experiential learning.
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Working@Tech
Developing a world-class workforce committed to enhancing employee skills and providing a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, we are now focused on three major efforts:
- Georgia Tech workforce knowledge and skill development.
- Performance management practices, processes, and tools.
- An enhanced employee experience.
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Plan Performance
See how the Institute is doing on key performance indicators in pursuit of our goals:
Tracking Our Progress