The Strategic Plan Coordinating Committee will be working with a consulting firm to help guide the process of engaging all of our campus community constituencies in determining the strategic direction of UW Tacoma for the next five years, but also envisioning what we will be on a longer horizon.

In particular, their work will involve:

  • Reviewing and recommending a consulting firm to help guide us through this process.
  • Identifying and engaging your colleagues across campus and the community to provide input and feedback that will drive us toward specific, measurable goals and the strategies that will ensure our success in achieving them.
  • Working collaboratively with Faculty Assembly to assure alignment with the academic plan.
  • Incorporating the Academic, Strategic, and Financial plans as outlined in the Sustainable Campus Plan.
  • Affirming, or altering, the mission, vision, values, and six pillars of our current strategic plan.
  • Providing productive feedback throughout the strategic planning process that will keep the process engaging and meaningful and will drive toward a plan that our campus can be proud of.
  • Reviewing and presenting a final strategic plan to our campus and community that says who we are, what we aspire to, what our goals are, and how we plan to get there.

Coordinating Committee

  • Menaka Abraham, Executive Director, Office of Undergraduate Education
  • Courtney Acoff, Director of Government Relations
  • Bonnie Becker, Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Success
  • Debbie Bingham, Interim Director, Community & Economic Development - City of Tacoma
  • Ruben Casas, Associate Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (CAC)
  • Sarah Chavez, Associate Teaching Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (CAC)
  • Amanda Figueroa, Associate Vice Chancellor for Social Mobility
  • Yoko Furukawa, Director, Office of Research
  • Emese Hadnagy, Associate Professor, Civil Engineering Program Chair
  • Abel Hernandez, Assistant Teaching Professor, Milgard School of Business
  • Tanisha Jumper, Chief Communications Officer, Tacoma Public Schools
  • Jillian Leahy, Director of Operations & Administration, Finance & Administration
  • Eric Madfis, Professor, Social Work & Criminal Justice
  • Ben Meiches, Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences (Social Science)
  • Ali Modarres, Assistant Chancellor for Community Partnerships
  • Lace Smith, Associate Vice Chancellor for Branding & Communications
  • Christine Stevens  Associate Professor, School of Nursing & Healthcare Leadership
  • Sarah Arvey Tov, Assistant Professor, School of Urban Studies
  • Abby Zorn, Director of Organizational Development & Human Resources
  • Terrell Stalworth, President, Associated Students of UW Tacoma