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Progress and momentum, 2025-2026 

Year one of Creative Futures: The Skidmore College Strategic Plan, 2025–2030 included setting institutional priorities, Board-level conversations, shared governance work, community engagement, and significant progress across the College. Select first-year accomplishments and implementation milestones are noted below, each preceded by its corresponding Strategic Plan foundation.

Foundation 1: Creativity and Academic Excellence 

  • Middle States milestone completed: Skidmore completed the self-study, hosted the evaluation visit, and received the final team report.
  • Responsible AI policy established: New institutional AI policy supports responsible use while protecting privacy, security, ethics, accessibility, and human judgement.
  • Academic freedom work strengthened: The College sustained attention to free expression, civil discourse, and viewpoint diversity as a presidential priority.

Foundation 2: The Skidmore Student Experience

  • Student community spaces improved: Wiecking Hall and Jonsson Tower community-space work advanced, in addition to student-led updates to Falstaff’s.
  • Career ecosystem assessed: A consulting review, completed in spring of 2026, to begin to clarify the future vision, alignment, and investment needs for career development.

Foundation 3: Opportunities of a Skidmore Education

  • Campaign readiness strengthened: New Advancement leadership and campaign-readiness planning advanced priorities tied to financial aid and strategic investment.

Foundation 4: Inclusive Community

  • Land acknowledgement established: A campus-wide land acknowledgement moved ahead through shared governance, following CIGU endorsement and IPPC approval.
  • Task Force on Accessibility launched: Tri-chairs were appointed and a campus process began to identify and prioritize accessibility needs.

Foundation 5: Environmental Sustainability

  • Sustainability progress continues: Skidmore earned a STARS Silver rating, continued implementation of the Sustainable Landscape Plan, and installed the first geo-tree sculpture, marking the location of campus geothermal systems.

Foundation 6: Financial Future

  • Financial equilibrium work sustained: Collaborative budget development, long-range financial planning, and resource optimization efforts continued.