When President David Smith took office in September 2006, he launched the Engaging Excellence initiative to challenge and encourage SUNY Upstate students, employees, and faculty to create the best setting possible in which to learn, work, and serve.
The centerpiece of Engaging Excellence is the creation of employee/student driven recommendations to integrate into a 10-year strategic plan, which will become Upstate's common purpose and shared direction. From the start, the development of this plan has had a clear-cut direction: build on what works and fix what does not.
