Recruit and Retain
Goal 2 - Recruit, retain, and value well-qualified students, faculty, and staff.
Objective 1:
Support and increase student enrollment and retention.
Action Items:
- Offer multi-year scholarship packages to recruit and retain quality students.
- Prioritize resources for student on-campus work, internships and research.
- Enhance and innovate recruitment, retention, promotion and branding strategies.
- Expand and enhance student academic support services.
- Revise and implement strategic enrollment management plan.
Objective 2:
Support and value commitment to teaching, scholarship, and service.
Action Items:
- Expand "grow your own" program.
- Continue to emphasize role of faculty in shared governance.
- Reevaluate the role of full-time vs. part-time faculty in stabilizing academic program delivery and program quality.
- Develop and implement institutional compensation strategy.
Objective 3:
Offer professional development support to encourage commitment to the mission and vision.
Action Items:
- Reevaluate guidelines for staff professional growth opportunities.
- Establish regular cycle of academic technology and policy training for campus.
- Expand the availability of and participation in faculty development efforts focused on pedagogy.
- Review and update campus policies.
- Commit to performance metrics, accountability, and use of data in the evaluation of employees and programs.
Evidence
- Great Plains Exceptional Scholar Awards
- New marketing strategy under development
Metric 2.2.3
Metric 2.2.4