Student Affairs Strategic Planning

Strategic Plan

With an inspired (and inspiring) institutional strategic plan, To Boldly Go, setting a direction and guiding innovations and initiatives at UC Davis, the Division of Student Affairs is poised to take on a significant leadership role in bringing the University’s goals to life. Creating the ecosystem needed to ensure an educational experience that centers inclusive excellence, strives for equity and prepares students for the challenges of a divisive and changing social and cultural landscape is not only a worthy cause, but also an educational imperative.

Implementation Planning Group

Now that the comment period has concluded and the Strategic Plan has been finalized, the Implementation Planning Group (IPG) works to develop the practical roadmap that will take the Division’s strategic plan from a conceptual plan to a concrete action plan. The four strategic goals and accompanying objectives are the launching points for that work. Since it’s inception in April 2024, the IPG engages regularly to develop, review, revise and finalize action items or “activities.” 

For each activity, the IPG:

• Creates timelines and sequences
• Develops action steps
• Makes assignments of responsibility and accountability
• Defines assessment methods and metrics
• Identifies required resources that will support the achievements of the goals and objectives of the strategic plan

IPG Members

Implementation Planning Group (IPG) Members - Phase 2 (July 2026-June 2027)

• Strategic Planning Committee
• Kawami Evans (co-chair), Executive Director, Inclusion, Culture and Belonging | Divisional DEI Strategist
  Lindsay Romasanta (co-chair), Chief of Staff
  Celene Aridin, ASUCD External Affairs Vice President
  Analisa Brown, Cross Cultural Center Graduate Student Resource Coordinator
  Donelle Davis, Executive Director, Business Operations and Services
  Luis Esparza, Associate Director, Internship and Career Center
  Rolaine James, Disability Specialist, Student Disability Center
  Ben Fong, Graduate Student Association President
  Allyson Francisco, ASUCD Controller
  Mateo Fuentes, Vice Chancellor Fellow at TRiO
  Jeff Heiser, Associate Director, Campus Recreation
  Neil Daniel Huefner, Associate Director, Student Affairs Assessment
  Dave Johnson, Executive Director, Human Resources
  Sergio Maciel, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Fellow
  Cecily Roberts, Director, Women's Resources and Research Center
  Mary Schertzer, Director, Retail Dining
  Amy Shuman, Director, Workforce Development 

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