Strategic Initiatives

Goals:

Develop, support, and participate in targeted efforts that enhance recruitment strategies

Develop and support a focus on recruiting non-traditional, working adults, and transfer students

Coordinate and increase touch points with students to provide a hands-on enrollment experience

Develop strategies to enhance the acquisition and use of institutional and foundation scholarships funds in a timely manner to support enrollment goals

Identify the needs of first-generation and non-traditional students and leverage departmental resources to support student engagement and success

Create and enhance opportunities for students to engage with the campus, local, and global communities

Develop and support tools, policies, communication strategies, and offerings, that support retention, progression, and degree completion

Enhance financial literacy using tools and programs, and ensure students understand their financial obligations and how to pay for them

Goals:

Communicate policies, expectations, and requirements with plain language that helps students and families better navigate the university system

Design processes and train staff to facilitate the efficient delivery of services.

Implement a division-wide customer service training program based upon exemplary standards for service and student feedback

Ensure that policies and procedures meet institutional needs while being as student-friendly as possible and don’t disadvantage any particular group of students

Goals:

Implement division-wide and departmental training for Student Affairs employees, with consideration of student feedback, on diversity and how to create safe and inclusive environments for students, and by collaborating with diversity-related entities

Facilitate opportunities for students to increase their knowledge and awareness of globalization and diversity issues

Increase input from students on the development of diversity initiatives

Goals:

Ensure divisional resources are maximized and used efficiently

Enhance employee engagement and satisfaction through individual employee experiences

Increase strategic collaboration efforts across division to maximize budgets and human capital

Create professional development opportunities for Student Affairs staff, including training and succession plans

Goals:

Identify program outcomes and content early for all student programming to allow for enhanced collaboration with relevant academic departments for increased student participation, which could include potential course credit for attendance (such as leadership, diversity, wellness, communication, self-advocacy, interpersonal skills)

Provide opportunities for structured leadership education and increased student engagement

Collaborate with academic programs to promote leadership theory and practice while making it an integral part of an established curriculum

Students will:
1A: Demonstrate respect for cultural and demographic differences

1B: Assess how power and privilege impact themselves and others
1C: Define strategies that emphasize compromise and cooperation
1D: Balances needs of self with needs of others

Students will:
2A: Define personal values
2B: Identify self-advocacy skills
2C: Practice personal accountability
2D: Identify barriers to interpersonal communication

Students will:
3A: Articulate strategies to manage social well-being
3B: Articulate strategies to manage physical well-being
3C: Articulate strategies to manage emotional well-being
3D: Explore issues of purpose and meaning within the context of higher education

Students will:
4A: Assess obstacles to change
4B: Utilize a process for decision making
4C: Incorporate ethical reasoning into action
4D: Practice sound money management principles