Strategic Plan

Believe. Belong. Become.

After surveys, listening sessions, and strategic meetings for more than a year, CSU’s bottom line became clear – we prepare servant leaders to pursue significant lives. A Charleston Southern education is a Passport to Purpose.

The strategic planning team, led by former President Dondi Costin, identified Point A (where we are today) and Point B (where we believe God wants us to go). The 2020-2025 Strategic Plan charts the course and provides metrics to stay the course.

Each undergraduate degree program is built upon a comprehensive liberal arts foundation which develops and strengthens the student’s skills in critical thinking and reasoning. Through their majors students are prepared to enter professions or graduate studies. In the master’s programs, students are exposed to the significant research of their professions and are educated in current trends and developments in their chosen fields. Through online programs students can develop these skills and advance in their educations remotely, and through participating in our online community further their walks in faith and fellowship as well. Doctoral students engage in their fields of study at the highest levels, participating in research or intensive clinical placements to develop and demonstrate expert knowledge of their professions.

OUR WHY

The Great Commission

Charleston Southern University was founded in obedience to Christ’s command to make disciples of all nations, teaching them to align with His design. It is why we exist today.

OUR HOW

Faith Integration in Christian Community

In nurturing student growth, academic excellence is the seed, and Christian environment is the soil. It is both/and, not either/or. Meanwhile, our vision statement plants the process in fertile terrain as the community of faculty, staff, and peer mentors cultivate; students work the ground, and God provides the harvest. Saturating the entire campus community with this vision –integrating faith in learning, leading, and serving – ensures that faith integration is not an afterthought. Rather, it is the central thought in equipping students with a worldview in which faith forms character and character drives action.

OUR WHAT

Servant Leaders Pursuing Significant Lives

Our strategic plan is designed to guarantee that everything CSU does helps students become the servant leaders God wants them to be: a colleague who demonstrates the value of going the extra mile and inspires coworkers to follow suit, a spouse who models the character of Christ at work and at home, a parent who puts family before themselves, a neighbor whose faith impacts every fiber of his being seven days a week, and an engaged citizen making a difference in the church and the world. At CSU, serious scholarship and real relationships lay a solid foundation for servant leadership.

View the Plan

The 2020-2025 Strategic Plan includes several key components: Governing Principles, E.P.I.C. Values, Grand Purpose, Guiding Process, Game-Changing Product, Passport to Purpose, and Wildly Important Goals. Review the full plan below and/or download to your device.

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