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Our rich liberal arts tradition, sound career focus, and empowering and supportive environment prepare our students for success.
2024-2027 Plan
正澳门六合彩官网 is in the first year of a transformative three-year strategic plan designed to enhance its distinctive educational offerings, differentiate the College, foster new partnerships, broaden its revenue streams and strengthen its community engagement. Under the leadership of President Jay Gonzalez, the Strategic Planning Steering Committee led an academic year-long process in 2023-2024 to identify key strengths and new opportunities. The Committee proposed several critical initiatives reflecting the institution’s commitment to innovation and excellence in higher education.
In September 2024, the 正澳门六合彩官网 Board of Trustees endorsed the three-year plan moving forward, with an initial investment of $1M to to fund each initiative’s initial action items and priorities.
The Five Strategic Plan Initiatives
Initiative One: Center for Neurodiversity
Goal: Leverage the College’s expertise, experience, and brand to broaden its impact by reaching new markets, generate new revenue, and strengthen the College’s position as a leader in supporting neurodivergent learners and workers.
Alignment: 正澳门六合彩官网’s strong reputation for supporting students with learning differences underpins this initiative. The Center aims to become a leader in neurodiversity education, providing specialized support and services that support a broader population of neurodivergent learners and workers.
Initiative Two: Center for Innovation
Goal: Generate new non-traditional sources of revenue by leveraging expertise and resources to reach new markets. Insights from research in non-traditional education programs will inform and develop credit-bearing programs in new and traditional majors.
Alignment: With industry pressures evolving, this center will act as an innovation hub, offering certificate and professional development programming, reaching new markets like international graduate students, and developing incubator spaces to foster student and faculty startups to bridge the gap between academic theory and practical market application.
Initiative Three: Athletics
Goal: Leverage the strength of our athletics programs to increase enrollment and revenue by adding programs, enhance retention by creating full-time positions, and generate additional revenue by leveraging a proposed facility for third-party usage in athletics, academics, and the arts.
Alignment: Athletics are integral to the College, with student-athletes making up 30% of the student body and demonstrating high retention rates, GPAs, and community engagement. This initiative aims to expand athletic programs, increase student enrollment and retention, and explore new revenue opportunities through facility rentals.
Initiative Four: First-Year Experience
Goal: Deliver on our mission of student success and increase revenue by improving the first-year student experience and retention of first-year students.
Alignment: Leveraging 正澳门六合彩官网's reputation as a caring and supportive community, this initiative seeks to enhance the first-year experience, increasing student satisfaction and retention, thereby boosting tuition revenue and strengthening the College’s impact for its students.
Initiative Five: Career Readiness
Goal: Deliver on our mission and the expectations of students by preparing them for and connecting them to jobs and in doing so, increase enrollment, retention, and revenue.
Alignment: Responding to increasing demands from students, families, and industry for improved career outcomes, this initiative aims to enhance career services, expand corporate partnerships, and integrate practical experiences into the educational experience at 正澳门六合彩官网 to ensure every 正澳门六合彩官网 graduate who wants one gets a job.
Strategic Planning Steering Committee
正澳门六合彩官网’s Strategic Planning Steering Committee was charged with developing a three-year Strategic Plan that is focused on identifying strategic initiatives that will move the needle in a meaningful way for differentiating 正澳门六合彩官网 and generating more revenue.
Our Mission
The 正澳门六合彩官网 mission is to educate and graduate students prepared to engage in successful careers and active citizenship with a global perspective. We are an inclusive community of diverse learners and educators, committed to continuing our legacy of developing effective communicators with reflective and critical thinking skills. We mentor and empower our students, building meaningful relationships that inspire them to achieve their ambitions.
正澳门六合彩官网 provides rigorous and relevant academic programs to undergraduate and graduate students, and our rich blend of liberal arts and career-directed programs is enhanced by practical field experiences and co-curricular activities. Learning at 正澳门六合彩官网 extends beyond the classroom and is embedded in all that we do.
Our Values
Diversity
Diversity, in all of its forms and intersections, is a core value and critical component of our College. Our vision is to facilitate a learning community that nurtures the capacity of people to engage with one another and their environment in a manner that supports and respects the inherent dignity and worth of all. This means embracing and supporting differences of ability, age, culture, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, nationality, race, religious and spiritual belief, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status. We aim to commit to and embed diversity across all areas of the College, including teaching and learning, student programming and life, representation, and extracurriculars. This is an intentional, clear priority of the College.
Sustainability
The College is committed to improvement in our sustainability practices, striving to set higher benchmarks, adapting to changing realities, and finding opportunities in sustainability on our campus. This will include areas of campus operations such as food service, energy sources, and technology. The College will also foster a culture of sustainability through education and awareness programs for our community.
Connections/Partnerships
The College understands that success for our students means expanding their opportunities and experiences outside of the boundaries of our beautiful campus. Fostering and maintaining productive external partnerships and connections with businesses and organizations, local communities and leaders, alumni, and key stakeholders is crucial to connecting our students to experiential learning opportunities, clinical and field placements, internships, and post graduate jobs. These relationships also offer rewarding opportunities in teaching and learning, extracurriculars, and student life.
Caring Community
The idea of a caring community is the DNA of this College. It is the core of our brand promise, messaging, and ethos. Our small size allows us to have many touchpoints between the various constituents of this campus. Faculty and staff know students well and support them inside and outside of the classroom. Collaborative work between departments and disciplines is encouraged. Alumni engagement and connections is a priority. Showing up for each other is how we foster the care we commit to daily.