Shared Vision: September 1998 Cover Letter

September 29, 1998

Dear Colleagues:

Imagine with me, if you will, San Diego State in 2007. It is widely known as one of the premier universities on the Pacific Rim for its academic excellence, its outstanding teaching, its extensive research, and its valuable community contributions.

San Diego State's hallmark will be an environment of fairness and respect, where students, faculty, and staff learn from each other and benefit personally and institutionally from our rich diversity of people and ideas.

SDSU will be known for offering students extensive opportunities for building bridges between their learning on campus and the laboratories, offices, and schools beyond their classrooms. We will be deeply involved in community issues, whether they be local or national or global.

We will be known as San Diego's truly international crossroads, where many languages, many cultures, and many political ideas meet and enrich the experiences of all of us as we take aggressive leadership in our global society.

That is the vision of SDSU's future that you charted in the Shared Vision process through which we clarified our goals and our priorities for San Diego State.

Now, after soliciting and reviewing additional comments and suggestions from the community campus, I am pleased to make available the final copy of the Shared Vision report. The plan contains input and reflects comments and suggestions from faculty, staff, and students as well as the University Senate, alumni, parents, community members, and friends.

We will prepare a report to the university community next September, and each year thereafter, sharing the record of progress toward our goals.

This then is our roadmap for 1998-99. We invite all to join us on our journey.

Sincerely,

Stephen L. Weber
President