L&AD: Leveraging Excellence, Accelerating Discovery
L&AD is F&M’s bold and strategic five-year plan (2022-2027). It is so named to capture not only our community’s ambitions for the College, but also, with its ampersand, F&M’s mission, identity, inclusivity, and core values. The plan was created with the input of hundreds of faculty, staff, students, trustees, and alumni, and is designed to advance the College and secure its position, in perpetuity, among the finest liberal arts institutions in the country.
Together, by leveraging excellence and accelerating discovery, we will achieve five key goals:
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- Revitalize our curriculum to respond to and guide students’ evolving needs, goals, and interests.
- Empower students to engage in an inclusive and joyful community.
- Advance our aspirations through the highest and best use of all our resources.
- Center community and belonging as institutional values.
- Ignite a strong culture of philanthropy, service and rewarding engagement.
L&AD Goals
L&AD Outcomes
L&AD is accompanied by a living and flexible implementation plan designed to promote
significant progress toward our goals in three to five years. Each activity will lead
the community towards greater viability, visibility, and vitality. Viability: We must revise our financial model by promoting innovation and securing institutional
sustainability. Visibility: We must enhance and explain the value of an F&M education to inspire potential students
and families, alumni, donors, and other partners to engage with F&M and the opportunities
we offer for the future. Vitality: We must better and more consistently engage all members of our community by nurturing
their sense of belonging and living the College’s values of diversity, equity, inclusion,
and accessibility