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CALS Compass 2030

Strategic Planning to Chart Our Future

CALS Compass 2030 is an employee-directed strategic planning process to chart the course for CALS through the year 2030.

With your involvement in this process, CALS aims to be the best land-grant in the country, and the best place to learn and work for everyone.

Your CALS. Your voice.

As we look to the future, our employee-led strategic planning committee wants to give all in our community a chance to share their thoughts to help shape the goals and direction of CALS. We want to hear from you. 

Stakeholder Engagement

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Why I'm Helping Chart Our Future

CALS is more than just a place of work. It's a community. Hear why your peers and colleagues are getting involved.

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"The future will always present challenges – but with those challenges come opportunities. Your involvement in this strategic planning process will help us prioritize the opportunities we most want to pursue."

Dean Richard H. Linton

From Ideas to Impacts - CALS Current Strategic Plan in Action

Many of CALS’ greatest achievements over the last 10 years are directly tied to our previous strategic planning efforts.

 

Developing Leaders and New Paths to CALS

To be a global leader in agriculture and the life sciences, you have to commit to growing good leaders. Our strategic plan helps rural, agricultural students find their path to CALS and makes sound investments in leadership development opportunities for students, staff, faculty and stakeholders.

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Creating a More Diverse, Equitable and Inclusive Community

To help create opportunities for economic, intellectual and societal prosperity for all North Carolinians, we must become more representative of the state we serve. Our strategic plan helps create new programs and community efforts to further establish a more diverse, equitable and inclusive CALS.

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Growing New Economies

At CALS, we’re taking the initiative to turn global challenges into opportunities: opportunities to feed the world, to build new economic sectors for North Carolina and beyond. These new initiatives are a direct result of our strategic plan.

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Funding Research Productivity

CALS research grows the state’s life sciences and biotech industries and drives agricultural innovation. With more than $130 million in annual expenditures, supporting 600 active projects in more than 70 different commodities, our strategic plan offers researchers proposal development support.

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We are proudly living our "Envisioned Future."

In 2013, CALS launched its first ever strategic plan that guided our direction through 2020.

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We value transparency in our communications and want to provide you with comprehensive information on the strategic planning process at CALS.

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