Initiatives

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    SI 19: Campus and Facility Master Planning

    This campus-wide initiative will create a new Campus Master Plan to optimize space utilization and maximize the efficiency of existing facilities to support faculty, staff, and students while planning for future growth and evolving institutional needs within the existing footprint. It will adjust deferred maintenance to ensure buildings are well maintained; strengthen community collaboration; and create an accessible, vibrant campus that fosters collaboration and engagement and strengthens ties with the City of Boston. Finally, it will enhance campus sustainability by implementing environmentally sustainable practices to reduce the College’s carbon footprint, ensuring long-term operational resilience and preparing the campus for future environmental challenges. This effort will provide sufficient support and planning for regular renewal and support of existing spaces. It will also plan to integrate efforts across multiple campuses, ensuring that resources, facilities, and programs evolve to meet the College’s long-term goals.

    Goals Supported

    • Goal C.4 : Use facilities strategically and creatively to enhance the Emerson experience
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    SI 20: Executive Education

    Building on the initial gains of Professional Studies, Emerson will investigate its potential role in the landscape of executive education, offering non-credit courses and micro-credentials to post-baccalaureate professionals seeking to increase their expertise in specific areas. Offered by existing faculty, accomplished alumni, and high-profile professionals in their fields, these courses and programs will situate Emerson in a new market in Boston, LA, and internationally. 

    Goals Supported

    • Goal D.1 : Increase financial strength through innovative academic and programmatic offerings, increased philanthropy, and operational efficiencies
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    SI 21: Leadership and Management Institute

    Emerson’s new Leadership and Management training programs will allow employees to learn from and engage with the College’s leadership and professionals. This professional development program will be an excellent opportunity to continue enhancing and reinforcing Emerson’s leadership culture and driving collaborative behaviors. It will serve all managers, supervisors, and academic administrators and focus on management and leadership best practices and professional development.

    Goals Supported

    • Goal D.4 : Recruit, develop, support, and retain an innovative and inclusive professional staff
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    SI 22: Emerson Master Classes

    The Emerson College Master Classes Initiative offers curated opportunities for alumni, parents, and friends to share their insights with the Emerson community. The program connects students with accomplished professionals and industry leaders in the arts and communication across Emerson’s campuses, providing the real-world expertise essential for career readiness.

    Goals Supported

    • Goal A.1 : Increase innovation, interdisciplinarity, and collaboration throughout the academic enterprise
    • Goal A.2 : Enhance student education and institutional capacity in emerging media and technologies
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    SI 23: Student Modernization Initiative

    The Student Modernization Project is a transformative, five-year initiative to improve how students are supported through administrative processes. For one part of this project, the modern, mobile-friendly platform, Workday will replace Banner. This project will fundamentally redesign the student academic journey and internal administrative operations by providing students with self-service tools to map their own degree progression and plan flexible, career-aligned academic paths. By unifying student records across academics, financials, and advising into a single source of truth, the initiative will reduce departmental silos, process redundancies, and manual data entry. This will empower faculty and staff to collaborate more effectively and focus on higher-value student support. Ultimately, the project will create a secure, scalable, and adaptable infrastructure with robust reporting capabilities, enabling data-informed strategic decisions and ensuring the institution can evolve with best practices.

    Goals Supported

    • Goal A.1 : Increase innovation, interdisciplinarity, and collaboration throughout the academic enterprise
    • Goal B.3 : Develop and diversify industry, organizational, and community collaborations and partnerships
    • Goal C.2 : Strengthen internal communication, engagement, and collaboration among students, faculty, staff, and administrators
    • Goal D.2 : Develop coordinated enterprise data systems, analyses, and infrastructure to inform strategic decisions and direction
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    SI 24: Creativity@Emerson

    Creativity@Emerson is dedicated to emboldening and elevating creativity at Emerson College and beyond. Building on Emerson’s reputation for creative excellence, Creativity@Emerson draws upon faculty expertise, immersive and innovative learning environments, and public engagement opportunities to enhance and expand students’ educational journeys, preparing them to thrive as innovative thinkers, problem-solvers, storytellers, and creators in a dynamic and ever-changing world.

    Goals Supported

    • Goal A.1 : Increase innovation, interdisciplinarity, and collaboration throughout the academic enterprise
    • Goal A.3 : Expand and strengthen career readiness for all students
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    SI 25: AI@Emerson

    The AI Initiative positions Emerson as a leader in the responsible and creative use of artificial intelligence across teaching, learning, and operations. Co-led by Academic Affairs and IT, the initiative has published institutional Guiding Principles for AI use, launched ai.emerson.edu as the community’s central AI resource, deployed a ten-video AI literacy training program for faculty, staff, and students, distributed comprehensive Course AI Policy guidelines and considerations, and funded faculty-led pilot courses integrating AI into filmmaking on the Boston and Los Angeles campuses.

    Goals Supported

    • Goal A.2 : Enhance student education and institutional capacity in emerging media and technologies
    • Goal A.3 : Expand and strengthen career readiness for all students
    • Goal D.2 : Develop coordinated enterprise data systems, analyses, and infrastructure to inform strategic decisions and direction