Strategic Plan & Initiatives
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Strategic Priorities
Campus Recreation’s 2026–2031 strategic priorities provide a roadmap for strengthening our programs, facilities, people, and connections to the communities we serve. Through Communication & Collaboration, Training & Staff Development, Priority Realignment & Operationalizing, and Program & Facility Enhancement, we are focused on building meaningful partnerships, investing in our staff, improving how we work, and using data and participant feedback to guide future programs and spaces. Together, these priorities advance our commitment to creating innovative, welcoming, and impactful recreational experiences that help the Illini community move, thrive, and belong.
Mapped Values: Collaboration, Community, Growth
- Outreach to the broader CU community to grow the impact campus recreation makes.
- Collaboration with U of I and CU community stakeholders to ensure that new efforts meet the needs of all patrons and participants who use campus recreation services.
- Improve and grow marketing efforts toward new offerings, facility enhancements, and community facing promotional materials such as the website.
Mapped Values: Growth, Community (CRec)
- Enhance and operationalize student development efforts within the department to empower career readiness, promotional opportunities, appreciation, and recognition.
- Enhance and operationalize professional staff development efforts within the department to empower needed changes, operational efficiency, career advancement, and collaboration.
- Build effective and transferable templates for student staff supervisors to use to enhance staff policy development, training, recognition, and appreciation efforts.
Mapped Values: Innovation, Community (CRec)
- Centralize human resources, student development, and IT processes to ensure alignment across all student employment opportunities and to eliminate inefficiencies and gray areas.
- Implement new software and processes to centralize equipment maintenance, history, parts, inventory, and location as well as student and professional staff needs for operational effectiveness.
- Redevelop and replace equipment, processes, software, facility components, and development efforts to promote their realignment to the departmental priorities.
Mapped Values: Innovation, Collaboration, Community
- Develop and provide new programming opportunities using data informed practices and patron feedback to ensure consistency with stakeholder needs and success of the offering.
- Make facility enhancements in spaces which have proven inefficient, inequitable, out of date, or non-operational to ensure that campus recreation spaces can be used to their full potential.