Environment
Goal 3 - Create an institutional environment that supports student, faculty, and staff success.
Objective 1:
Provide support and institutional resources to accommodate all learners.
Action Items:
- Increase the range of student academic and counseling support services, and widen access to them for all students.
- Ensure the library can meet the academic needs of the campus.
- Develop and implement a plan to update all classroom space and technology on a rotating basis.
Objective 2:
Improve student retention and graduation rates.
Action Items:
- Enrich academic advising, mentoring, and new student programming.
- Enhance career services and increase meaningful experiential opportunities.
- Streamline and centralize student success services.
- By 2023 attain graduation rate* of 50% and retention rate** of 80%.
* Graduation rate defined as the percentage of first-time, full-time undergraduate students who start during fall semester and graduate within 6 years.
** Retention rate defined as the percentage of first-time, full-time undergraduate degree-seeking students who start during fall semester and enroll the following fall semester.
Objective 3:
Design, implement, and support technology resources to ensure security of data and the physical plant.
Action Items:
- Cooperate with NDUS to increase campus data security and integrity.
- Increase student access to study resources.
- Expand use of existing technologies to reduce student fees and multiple logins.
- Automate common workflow processes to increase efficiency and reduce paper processes.
Objective 4:
Empower students, faculty, and staff to seek and secure external funding.
Action Items:
- Reinstate the Office of Sponsored Programs.
- Implement incentive program for faculty/staff/students securing external funding.
- Increase public awareness of current research and scholarship.
- Establish MSU Research Center of Excellence.
Objective 5:
Expand an environment that values and supports diversity.
Action Items:
- Analyze salary equity and address the findings.
- Extend diversity and inclusion awareness for campus community.
- Expand curricular and co-curricular diversity initiatives.
- Strengthen policies and options for inclusive housing and residence life programming.
Evidence
- The MSU Diversity Council promotes the vitality of community and culture through building a diverse and inclusive university climate.
- Headcounts and enrollment by gender
- Enrollment by ethnicity
Metric 3.2.4
