Strategic Plans Unit strategic plans are developed by all administrative units at Penn State and outline each unit's diversity goals during a strategic planning cycle. Your unit's strategic plans should contain some statements about your unit's diversity initiatives either in the general plan or in a separate document that only outlines its strategic plans for diversity.
Units update their strategic plans on either an annual or biannual cycle.
The purpose of this stipulation is to insure that your EOPC proposal is well connected with your unit's diversity goals. Proposals that are not well connected to unit diversity goals have little chance of being continued beyond the five-year EOPC funding period. If your unit's strategic planning documents do not have a statement that supports your proposal, you may need to contact someone in your unit who is involved in the strategic planning process and discuss how your unit can better articulate its diversity goals in its strategic plans. The other alternative is to develop proposals that are better connected with your unit's strategic plans. If you feel strongly about your proposal but don't have sufficient documentation to support it in your unit's strategic plans, please state this fact in your proposal and outline how you plan to rectify this problem.