Innovation

Driving Innovation in learning, discovery, and engagement

CSU will be a global leader in cultivating a sustainable social, economic, and environmental future through innovative practices in learning, research, discovery, and knowledge transfer.

Priorities:

Forefront of Sustainability:

We will establish CSU as a leading, preeminent university in impactful sustainability-related research and scholarship.

One Health:

We will be globally recognized for a transdisciplinary, integrative approach to environmental, plant, animal, and human health, with an emphasis on disease, agricultural, and water challenges.

Catalyze and Grow:

We will prepare future generations of leaders, change makers, and global citizens through a rigorous and distinctive program of general education that fosters self-knowledge, innovation, and social and cultural insight across all programs of study.

Critical Thinking for Life:

We will prepare future generations of leaders, change makers, and global citizens through a rigorous and distinctive program of general education that fosters self-knowledge and innovation across all programs of study

Education That Evolves:

We will craft and implement a dynamic academic master plan that will establish CSU as a leader in higher education providing critical knowledge, skills, and competencies, and we will build the infrastructure to rapidly adjust curricular and educational and delivery approaches to allow our learners to thrive in the 21st-century workforce.

Social and Cultural Insight:

CSU will foreground the crucial importance of a rich understanding of the histories, cultures, societies, and languages that inform our complex and diverse world, fostering the arts, humanities, and social sciences, and their interdisciplinary contributions to today’s most pressing problems.