Illuminate

To build a Christ-like community of faith where servant leaders are recognized for their excellence, integrity and spiritual vitality. The university will clarify its internal processes to better illuminate student pathways and then share its light generously with others through the cultivation of pioneer spirit, purposeful life and a passion to serve.

ORGANIZATIONAL CAPACITY: INTEGRATED SYSTEMS AND MODALITIES

The university creates systems and processes that provide clear paths for communication, access to services and a culture of efficient and defined standards for quality service and student support.

1. Develop and implement a comprehensive data management and data governance process that will provide consistent and accurate information necessary to support decision making, planning and institutional assessment.

2. Seek to build a comprehensive data system that eliminates “data silos” and discrepancies in quality, consistency and application of essential information.

3. Utilize student success data collected before and after graduation to enhance communication, services, and student support efforts.

INTERNAL PROCESSES: WELLNESS AND SPIRITUAL RENEWAL

The university provides an environment of wellness that promotes opportunities for counsel, mentoring and spiritual formation through a structured framework to support the needs of students and development of faculty and staff as mentors and advisors for students.

1. Establish student life programming that builds and nurtures a community of belonging, redemption, and relationships.

2. Provide an environment where students can encounter God and through Christ experience the transforming power of His saving grace as individuals, and within the university as a learning and living community.

3. Actively nurture spiritual growth, discipleship and maturity through the chapel gatherings, ministry of the Word, discipleship opportunities and participation and fellowship in the university community.

4. Celebrate and nurture ethnic and cultural diversity and seek ways to develop engagement and new leadership opportunities for students of color.

5. Develop programs to attract, support and facilitate the academic, cultural and adaptive needs of international students and students of diverse cultural backgrounds.

6. Provide opportunities for the campus community to learn and engage in health and wellness practices and healthy living.

FINANCIAL RESOURCES: ENROLLMENT AND RETENTION

The university utilizes an aggressive and goal-oriented strategy to achieve comprehensive enrollment growth for all programs, including alignment of current and new programs to workforce needs and the services necessary to equip students and support them in a manner that promotes retention and persistence.

1. Implement comprehensive strategies, program development and pathways to produce opportunities that will increase traditional, professional and graduate studies enrollments by a minimum of 3% annually.

2. Based on the Kansas Global Transfer Agreement, create an aggressive strategy, structure and action plan that will increase community college transfer enrollment by a minimum of 3% annually for all degree completion programs.

3. Develop and coordinate student success and support systems necessary to produce a minimum 3% annual improvement in retention of continuing students in all programs.

4. Assess and identify new workforce-relevant academic programs and provide a pathway for career-oriented working adult students to access and achieve their goals.

5. Expand and promote recruitment efforts to reach students regionally and nationally through effective initiatives with Nazarene students, area churches, regional Christian schools and home school organizations.