Focusing Our Future 2025
Concordia University Chicago is a Christ-centered Lutheran university where truth, freedom, and vocation form students for lives of influence and service for the common good.
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Executive Summary
Focusing Our Future 2025 (F2 for short) is an exciting and important step in Concordia University Chicago’s pursuit of its vision. It is our five-year strategic plan to lay the critical groundwork that will position the university for a thriving future.
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Formative Student Experience
The University will provide a formative student experience by promoting academics, co-curricular activities and pre-professional experiences that enable students to live out the University’s Mission, Vision and Values.
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Fiscal Agility and Strength
The University prioritizes the strategic use of data, a commitment to best practices in enrollment management, the development of market-informed programs and acts of fiscal discipline as means of ensuring student completion and securing the University’s future.
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Partnerships for Mission & Excellence
The University will identify and carry out partnerships that benefit both the partner and the University, and contribute to the common good.
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Vibrant Unified Community
The University community strives to develop, live and share a common vision for our work together.
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Mission, Vision and Values
The University's mission, vision and values serve as the overarching principles that guide its strategic initiatives.