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INTERNAL PROCESSES: REACH AND ENGAGEMENT

The university leverages and broadens the student experience through innovative program design and a variety of learning opportunities that inspire, grow, and engage learners and stakeholders on campus and beyond.

1. Create specialized and targeted learning and development opportunities designed for students, working professionals and university partners including Early College, dual high school enrollment, degree completion, professional certifications, workforce, and career development in addition to graduate programs of study.

2. Develop benchmarked and transformative experiences and activities that are mapped within the life cycle of the student to support the development of the whole person and provide common experiences across classifications or degree programs.

3. Implement innovative opportunities to engage a greater population of traditional, professional, and graduate alumni in the life of the university and as stakeholders involve them in the present and future of its ongoing mission and student success.

FINANCIAL RESOURCES: SPACES THAT INSPIRE AND ENGAGE

The university provides quality physical and virtual spaces that support learning, community development, and the student experience including the use of emerging technologies in a variety of settings and applications.

1. Provide physical and virtual learning spaces that reflect current standards and are relevant to work-life configurations, resources and real-life tools.

2. Complete and update the campus master development plan to anticipate future growth and program needs to include a comprehensive space utilization study and develop a plan that includes efficiently utilizing existing space, renovations, technology expansion and greater cost efficiencies.

3. Develop and provide residential living facilities and amenities that will engage students in community life and provide quality space for living, learning, recreation and belonging.

STUDENTS AND STAKEHOLDERS: LIFE CALLING AND PURPOSE

The university offers transformative and comprehensive curricular and co-curricular programming that recognizes God’s call on each life, empowers students to pursue a life of purpose, and prepares the whole person to be life-ready.

1. Utilizing a life-ready framework, develop a Center for Flourishing that will provide experiences and promote opportunities to prepare the whole student for the world of work, life and pathway to success.

2. Establish interest or affinity group programming specifically linked to life-ready goals within specific areas of study, professions, or vocations to include preparation for leadership, life calling, and life-long professional development.

3. Utilize a network of partners and organizations to create a Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship that will provide learning opportunities, internships and real-life experiences leading to the development of life-ready skills and practices required for business creation, management, and professional development.