Goals and 5-Year Strategies

Strategically grow enrollment and foster a thriving learning environment characterized by transformational educational experiences that promote the holistic development, economic mobility, and success of all students.

• Strategy I-A: Enhance opportunity, access, and affordability through recruitment, strategic offerings and flexible learning formats, particularly in graduate and professional programs.
• Strategy I-B: Support the success and graduation of all students, consistently outpacing our peers in engagement and achievement rates.
• Strategy I-C: Promote lifelong learning and gainful employment through career readiness, alumni-engagement, flexible credentials, and experiential learning.

Achieve academic excellence through innovative instructional practices, strategic program expansion, and a robust academic and technological infrastructure.

• Strategy II-A: Leverage high-impact teaching and learning practices, technology, and quality instructional design of all courses to provide a transformational and future-focused educational experience.
• Strategy II-B: Adapt and expand nationally recognized academic programs, schools and colleges through prestigious accreditation, program review, and benchmarking against aspirational institutions.
• Strategy II-C: Strengthen healthcare education, services, and partnerships to meet state needs in rural and underserved suburban communities.
• Strategy II-D: Continue focused efforts to impact state healthcare needs in rural and underserved sub-urban populations.

Promote work, service, and leadership readiness for a global economy and transnational workforce by advancing mission-focused partnerships and community values across all aspects of our multi-campus institution.

• Strategy III-A: Integrate educational experiences for students, faculty, and staff to increase understanding of perspectives that focus on community and global engagement.
• Strategy III-B: Expand college access, readiness, and persistence through high-impact support programs for pre-college and undergraduate learners.
• Strategy III-C: Leverage the university’s designations of excellence through connection and access to expand our reach as a nationally recognized, comprehensive, first-choice university.

Cultivate an entrepreneurial ecosystem to enhance research, scholarship, and regional partnerships that drive innovation and economic development.

• Strategy IV-A: Mobilize faculty and student research, scholarship, and creative activities and support personnel in the process of securing and administering research funds to reach Carnegie’s Very High Research Activity Classification by 2031.
• Strategy IV-B: Build a collaborative research and innovation ecosystem that accelerates entrepreneurship, industry engagement, and applied research to enhance economic prosperity in rural, regional, and statewide communities.
• Strategy IV-C: Use data analytics and AI to drive innovation and enable evidence-based decisions that advance enrollment growth, student success, and institutional effectiveness.

Attain national prominence through student achievement, a thriving employee experience, a culture of philanthropy, and fiscal sustainability.

• Strategy V-A: Foster a thriving employee experience supported by competitive recruitment, strong retention, and intentional workforce planning to sustain institutional growth.
• Strategy V-B: Strengthen fiscal sustainability by prioritizing investment in the core mission, expanding philanthropic support, and diversifying revenue sources.
• Strategy V-C: Advance institutional excellence and impact through increased visibility, competitive achievement, and nationally recognized distinction.