Outcome 1 / Educate students to succeed and make positive impacts in their communities

Goals and Actions

1) Improve academic programs continuously.

• Recruit and retain qualified, diverse, and culturally-competent faculty and staff.
  • Develop and enhance unit-level diversity and inclusive excellence plans.
  • Provide and support equitable opportunities for faculty and staff, allowing for appropriate career progression.
• Showcase current national accreditations and achieve national accreditations for programs when appropriate.
• Integrate career exploration, career readiness, and experiential learning opportunities into academic programs.
• Increase faculty-student mentoring opportunities.
• Teach a multicultural, inclusive, and equitable curriculum.

2) Support a range of opportunities for engagement, skill development and persistence for all students.

• Expand academic, community, and alumni partnerships that provide valuable experiential learning opportunities.
• Support faculty and student research and creative endeavors.
• Increase multicultural and international collaborative activities.
• Ensure a holistic education, leading to essential skill development and proficiency.
• Promote engaging and healthy student life experiences.
• Increase academic support in foundational courses.

3) Increase the number of degrees and certificates awarded students.

• Develop and strengthen student degree completion pathways and transfer partnerships.
• Enhance flexible modes of instructional delivery for student coursework engagement.
• Increase the accessibility of credit for prior learning.
• Expand certificate, bachelor, master, and accelerated degree options.
• Provide both in-person and virtual access to program-related software, hardware, laboratories, equipment, instructional materials, advising, and academic support.

4) Align curricula with areas of employer demand and embed industry recognized credentials throughout.

• Build academic programs to meet existing, traditional, nontraditional, and emerging employment opportunities.
• Emphasize to students, parents, and employers the value and potential of Southeast’s academic programs for post-graduation success.

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Outcome 2 / Stabilize Southeast's enrollment and graduate a diverse community of learners.

Goals and Actions

1) Reduce equity gaps and improve overall student persistence and completion.

• Improve the onboarding and professional development of faculty and staff to optimize academic and business processes.
  • Strengthen the transition from professional to departmental advising.
  • Increase faculty and staff student mentoring opportunities, resulting in enhanced student success.
• Enhance support for students navigating university academic and business processes and reduce barriers to student success.
• Promote student participation in university cocurricular activities (honors program, arts, athletics, Greek life, leadership programs, residential learning communities, study abroad, student organizations, and student employment).
• Improve relationships with current students through enhanced communication.
• Utilize early alert protocols and systems to provide timely intervention with students who need assistance.

2) Increase enrollment of historically underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, Pell-eligible students, and first-generation college students.

• Identify and break down barriers to admissions and enrollment.
• Promote opportunities that foster community inclusiveness
• Expand pre-enrollment and summer programs for historically underrepresented student groups.

3) Maintain enrollment market share for domestic undergraduate new, first-time, and transfer students.

• Increase partnerships with community-based organizations, business and industry, school districts, and alumni to engage prospective students and their families.
• Evaluate the impact of Southeast’s pricing and discounting strategies on new student enrollment and annual student retention.
• Leverage Southeast’s brand identity and the value of a Southeast degree.
• Develop community college partnerships, including Transfer Mentor Program partners and articulation agreements.

4) Increase enrollment of graduate and international students.

• Assess Southeast’s position and share of enrolled students in relation to key competitors for each student population.
• Deploy an integrated marketing, advertising, and recruitment strategy.

Outcome 3 / Enhance stewardship of Southeast's resources and promote a culture of belonging, respect, and continuous improvement.

Goals and Actions

1) Improve the recruitment and retention of faculty and staff.

• Increase flexible work opportunities.
• Implement the remaining salary increases as detailed in the salary equity study.

2) Enhance the transparency of the University’s budgeting process

• Revise the structure and work of the Budget Review Committee.

3) Enhance and diversify revenue streams through internal cost efficiencies and partnerships with business and industry, other institutions, alumni, and donors.

• Pursue partnerships that extend the University’s financial reach.
• Build alumni and philanthropic engagement.
• Review institutional scholarship practices to maximize net tuition revenues.

4) Prioritize critical facilities and infrastructure investments.

• Create tools and processes to identify the University’s highest priority facility needs./ Create a work group to improve academic and centralized scheduling and enhance campus space utilization.
• Develop a roadmap for promoting and operating a healthier and more sustainable campus and begin investing in sustainability projects with strong financial and energy savings returns.
• Enhance the University’s aesthetic and visual appeal through continued campus beautification.

5) Enhance Southeast’s information management systems and processes to meet needs for security, flexibility, program effectiveness, and efficiency of operations.

• Create tools and processes to identify and assess the University’s highest priority technology needs.
• Continue implementation of multi-factor authentication and other security controls to protect University resources.
• Enhance the collection, appropriate access, and use of data, including predictive analytics, to support data-informed decision making.
• Identify, implement, and maintain a new University portal system which improves access to University resources and enhances campus communications.
• Implement and maintain technologies supporting responsive, flexible, and effective teaching modalities.

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