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San Francisco State University offers high-quality post-baccalaureate education widely recognized for its intellectual value and contribution to society.

Objectives

1. SFSU fosters the rigorous intellectual skills necessary for a diverse population of graduate students to succeed professionally and continue learning throughout their careers.
2. SFSU supports faculty and graduate student scholarship, professional practice, and creative endeavors that contribute to knowledge within and across disciplines and also serve the community.
3. SFSU evaluates its graduate programs on a regular basis for continued quality and currency.
4. SFSU supports effective, high-quality, graduate programs and promotes a limited number of "signature" programs.

Outcomes

1. SFSU will be a campus of choice for graduate study in recognized program areas.
2. SFSU will employ procedures and criteria that evaluate all graduate programs in terms of their currency, quality, viability, and relationship to the University's mission.
3. There will be increased support for faculty and graduate student scholarly and creative endeavors, especially those that promote equity, social justice, and diversity; interdisciplinarity; internationalization; and collaborations beyond the University.
4. Graduate students will demonstrate their acquisition of program-defined intellectual skills and their fulfillment of clearly defined performance expectations.
5. Increased numbers of SFSU students, particularly those from historically underrepresented groups, will obtain graduate degrees at SFSU and beyond.

Strategies

1. Establish University-level criteria to assess graduate program quality and viability and integrate those criteria into a revised process of academic program review.
2. Establish a broad-based process for designating "signature" graduate programs.
3. Call for individual graduate programs to develop and enforce clear performance expectations, conforming to field or discipline-determined standards, both for themselves and for their students.
4. Increase resources for faculty and graduate student scholarship and creative endeavors by supporting discipline-specific, interdisciplinary, and University-wide seminars, symposia, workshops, and public events that facilitate both intra-University intellectual discourse and engagement with scholars, practitioners, and artists from beyond the University.
5. Provide training in grant writing supportive of the University's graduate endeavor for a greater number of faculty in all fields.
6. Support increased opportunities for graduate students to secure teaching and research assistantships, internships, and traineeships.
7. Provide increased outreach and support for highly qualified SFSU students, particularly those from underrepresented groups, who aspire to attain advanced degrees at and beyond SFSU.