strategic plan 2024-2029

In 2024, the J.T. & Margaret Talkington College of Visual & Performing Arts launched a multi-phase strategic planning process rooted in deep listening, community participation, and values alignment.

The process began with a series of Listening Sessions, where faculty, staff, and students identified broad Strategic Priorities to serve as long-term guideposts for the College. Building on these conversations, representatives gathered in a Values Summit to articulate the cultural foundation of TCVPA. Together, the College affirmed five core values—Curiosity, Creativity, Care, Principled Conduct, and Sense of Community—each paired with supportive behaviors that shape daily practice and long-term growth.

These values became the grounding framework for the College’s strategic planning model, known as FRACTALS. FRACTALS is a recursive, adaptive approach designed to integrate the College’s mission and vision while encouraging discovery, reflection, and responsiveness over time. Its phases—including Fact-Finding, Relationship-Building, Action-Setting, Tracking, Adaptation, Learning, and Scaling—ensure that planning remains flexible, participatory, and generative. For more information, visit:

From Fall 2024 through Spring 2029, the plan will guide the College as it grows and evolves, as well as captures excellence in motion. At its core, the plan is one that truly embraces community; from its advancement through three sub-committees, with representation from across all Schools, and dynamic structure which mirrors TTU institutional priorities, as represented by the foundation of its planning pillars.  Continuously evolving to reflect the landscape, each annual action is also marked by the primary TCVPA Value that it helps to reinforce.

This ongoing process reflects not only what we value, but how we act: planning that is values-anchored, mission-driven, capable of adapting as we learn, and transforming and shaping its path forward. We invite you to explore our plan and invite all stakeholders to contribute.

Quick Stats

AY 2024–2025

• 210 actions tracked
• Completion
• 71.4% actions completed
• Rollforward
• 144 actions continue in AY 2025–2026
• Structure:  3 pillars •  5 core values