Strategic Direction II:

Attract, educate, and graduate students prepared to engage in a complex and changing world

Initiative A: Develop a data-driven approach to inform the integrated design, delivery, and assessment of academic and student support services to enhance the student experience.

1. Develop a comprehensive data warehouse along with the commensurate policies and procedures for defining, collecting, and maintaining data, as well as the policies for disseminating related reports and information to faculty, staff, students, and alumni.
2. Continuously improve student outcomes by implementing an integrated and iterative process for obtaining alumni feedback about the relevance of their student experiences.
3. Redesign a more student-centered approach for students to navigate institutional services, systems, and support to increase access, satisfaction, and persistence.
4. Evaluate the academic and psychosocial preparedness of incoming students to inform their academic planning, advising, and support needs.

Initiative B: Identify the academic, co-curricular, and support needs of distinct student populations and build a stronger infrastructure to target, attract, engage, persist, and graduate more students.

1. Develop a comprehensive, integrated, and centralized system of academic services and support for all students to increase wellness, success and persistence to graduation.
2. Identify and remedy specific curricular structures and course scheduling patterns across academic programs that create barriers to success.
3. Design and pilot integrated high support programs based on research and best practices to address the distinctive needs and characteristics of students who are at risk of not persisting.
4. Develop additional first-year and other cohort programs to increase enrollment, engagement, and persistence.

Initiative C: Create opportunities to strengthen student voice, responsibility, and commitment throughout the college community.

1. Create a culture and provide the training to support students to assume a more participatory leadership role within the College community.
2. Increase student responsibility for setting norms and expectations related to community and academic behavior with a focus on responsible decision-making.

Initiative D: Offer students the knowledge, skills, and competencies needed to responsibly navigate a world of rapidly changing professional and personal opportunities.

1. Commit to a systematic e-portfolio process that aligns career development, advising, and academic and co-curricular experiences to support students' career goals and aspirations.
2. Challenge students early and often throughout their academic career through service learning, internships, study abroad, and other experiential learning opportunities.
3. Increase mentoring relationships among faculty and staff with students to nurture students' personal and professional development.

Initiative E: Develop an integrated plan for communicating the value of a Curry education.

1. Engage alumni through collaboration with faculty and staff to improve the collection and dissemination of qualitative and quantitative data about their experiences at the College and their outcomes beyond graduation.
2. Promote consistent graduation outcomes through formative and summative assessment that demonstrate student competencies in communication, quantitative reasoning, research, writing, and technology.
3. Develop a distinctive institutional brand informed by the new Mission Statement that is operationalized and executed through an annual brand marketing effort.