OPPORTUNITY
OPPORTUNITY
OBJECTIVE 1.1
Ensure graduates are ready for fulfilling lives, engaged citizenship and rewarding careers.
1.1.1: Extend and intensify quality teaching, high impact practices and life-changing experiences (such as study abroad, undergraduate research, internships, community engagement, athletics, etc.) for students throughout their journeys.
1.1.2: Rethink, reconfigure, and deploy calendars and modes of educational delivery to best accommodate a spectrum of students while enhancing accessibility and affordability.
1.1.3: Supercharge support for students experiencing barriers, including the COVID-19 pandemic’s lasting impacts, which highlighted and exacerbated issues already known to hinder student success.
1.1.4: Seize opportunities to attract, support, and retain students by leveraging the new academic structure to offer a variety of credentialing options and experiences.
1.1.5: Develop and deliver innovative accelerated graduate programs that can help reduce time and cost to degree for students.
1.1.6: Serve the whole student as they progress, including all dimensions of wellbeing and mental health.
OBJECTIVE 1.2
Be the answer to markets’ workforce questions and needs.
1.2.1: Grow online programs in strategically identified areas inclusive of two-year, four- year, graduate, and micro-credentialing options.
1.2.2: Collaborate with the region’s technical colleges to create and expand completion degree programs for high-demand areas.
1.2.3: Strengthen relationships with alumni, businesses, nonprofits, state and local government and K-12 educational institutions to better understand the future learner and workforce needs of the region.
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