Keystone College Strategic Plan 2018-2025

2018-2025

STRATEGIC PLAN | Teaching the Future, Today

Our Mission The process of developing Teaching the Future, Today embraced transparency and sought to build consensus by gathering input from all members of the campus community, including faculty, staff, students, trustees, community leaders, and alumni.

&Vision

Mission

Keystone College opens doors to rewarding careers in a student-centered environment, that teaches students to think, communicate, create, and problem-solve effectively within a diverse, ever-changing world.

Vision

Keystone College strives to transform lives and the region by inspiring and empowering students to live in a diverse community where responsibility, integrity, mutual respect, and life-long learning flourish.

Building on our proud and distinguished history and thanks to collective efforts of our campus community, Keystone College has set forth a mission, vision, and strategic plan for the future that reflects the enduring principles that guide us as we teach the future, today.

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Bruce Wiley

Class of 2018

Sixty-eight-year-old Bruce Wiley is not your typical college student but that didn’t stop him from fitting in and excelling at Keystone College.

Once homeless, Bruce graduated from Keystone in 2018 with a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and psychology and plans to enroll in a counseling master’s program.

BELIEVE

Jason Farmer, Scranton Times-Tribune Photographer

goal

ONE

Identify and enroll the most

promising and diverse students from various geographic, social, and economic backgrounds.

96%

of students receive financial aid

At Keystone College, we believe that all students should be given an opportunity to attain a college degree, regardless of their geographic, social, or economic backgrounds.

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Tori White

V isual Arts, Class of 2019

an art student at Keystone has been a great “Being experience! Your teachers and classmates become one big family. I am very proud of the work I have created, and could have never imagined a few years ago I would have accomplished all that I have today.

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BELONG

goal

TWO

Provide a student-centered experience and sense

of belonging to create a community of support for student success in an increasingly interdependent world.

30+

organizations & clubs

By providing students with a supportive and caring educational and living experience, students feel they belong at Keystone College.

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Benjamin Hawes Class of 2018

Spotting a rare black rhinoceros. Studying the world’s largest volcanic depression. These are just a few of the transformational experiences that Keystone College student Benjamin Hawes enjoyed while studying abroad in Tanzania.

BECOME

goal

THREE

Provide transformational educational experiences through interdisciplinary and

integrated teaching, shared scholarship, and co-curricular opportunities within a culture

of continuous improvement.

40+ degree options

Keystone College educates students so that they achieve their goals and become their best selves, professionally and personally.

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goal

FOUR Strengthen financial, institutional, and environmental

sustainability.

campus

ENHANCEMENTS

170

woodland acres

Zoe Stephens “ Class of 2021

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I was drawn to Keystone by the opportunities to learn outside of the classroom and work in the field. I liked the fact Keystone was environmentally conscious.

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