Idaho State University President Robert Wagner delivers inaugural address

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POCATELLO –– Idaho State University President Robert Wagner told nan assemblage astatine his inaugural reside Friday that nan assemblage will proceed its beardown committedness to helping each student execute their goals, while looking towards strategical maturation for nan future.

“We are present to create a amended early for everyone who comes to Idaho State University — a early wherever each student finds their path, each module and unit personnel feels empowered to innovate and lead, and each organization we service feels nan profound effect of our work,” Wagner said.

Wagner, who began serving arsenic Idaho State University’s fourteenth president connected January 29, 2024, spent his first respective months visiting pinch faculty, students, unit and different members of nan Idaho State University organization successful a listening inaugural called “Bold Path Forward.”

The assemblage has seen tremendous occurrence successful caller years, Wagner said, including 3 consecutive years of enrollment growth, a astir 11 percent summation successful retention and increases successful gifts to nan University. The assemblage has besides accrued its investigation expenditures and decreased its deficit.

After listening to nan assemblage community, and nan communities nan assemblage serves, Wagner told nan crowd he planned to move nan assemblage toward a caller strategical model called Opportunity-Aligned Resourcing.

The caller model will attraction connected aligning resources to meet 5 strategical goals: enrollment maturation and student success, world and investigation focus, advancing and enhancing beingness infrastructure, outer relationships and partnerships, and worker engagement, empowerment and connection.

To attraction connected enrollment maturation and student success, Wagner said nan assemblage will acquisition a strategical enrollment guidance process and will look for ways to grow geographic reach, and to connection much economical ways for students to person an education.

Idaho State is besides presently successful nan process of creating a broad Campus Master Plan, which will guideline infrastructure needs connected each campuses, Wagner said. He besides announced that nan assemblage is readying to motorboat its first broad superior run successful 25 years.

“We guidelines astatine a pivotal infinitesimal successful nan history of Idaho State University. Our roots tally deep, and our committedness to each different and nan communities we service is unwavering,” Wagner said. “As we look to nan future, I spot not conscionable a continuation of our proud past, but nan committedness of a caller era — an era of growth, invention and impact.”