2020-2025 Strategic Plan
The ASU 2025 Strategic Plan, the Standard sets a course to reach new heights of excellence through four strategic goals and objectives.
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1. STUDENT ACCESS AND SUCCESS
Objective 1.1: Increase enrollment through targeted recruitment efforts
and ensure long-term stability of the university.
Objective 1.2: Expand and strengthen academic programming and services
that address specific needs of students.
Objective 1.3: Expand and strengthen co-curricular and student support
services programs to foster a healthy
environment for students to facilitate positive
post-graduate outcomes.
Objective 1.4: Enhance its collegiate environment to facilitate students
to persist and achieve their goals of transfer,
degree and certificate completion.
2. INSTITUTIONAL SUSTAINABILITY AND RESPONSIBLE STEWARDSHIP
Objective 2.1: Ensure affordability for students by containing costs
and optimizing efficiency across the institution.
Objective 2.2: Implement best practices that strengthen programs and
services to address the learning needs of
students.
Objective 2.3: Expand the University resource base by cultivating
new avenues of funding and pursing opportunities
to enhance existing resources.
Objective 2.4: Forecast student population trends to better predict
future enrollment.
Objective 2.5: Create University master facilities plan.
Objective 2.6: Maintain a safe, secure and inclusive campus.
3. PARTNERSHIP AND ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS
Objective 3.1: Build relationships with targeted community organizations
to assist with entrepreneurship and service
opportunities.
Objective 3.2: Engage regional health career partners to identify
and assist in reducing prevalent health challenges in
Southwest Georgia.
Objective 3.3: Create opportunities for engagement with alumni.
Objective 3.4: Expand ASU’s brand and prominence in the community
through cultivation of effective partnerships and
collaboration with business, industry, education,
governmental, and service organizations.
Objective 3.5: Increase competitive grant funding.
Objective 3.6: Increase cultural engagement opportunities for faculty and staff.
Objective 3.7: Assess the strength of graduates’ skills needed to
be competitive in the workforce for the Southwest
Georgia market, the state, as well as nationally.
4. LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT AND EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT
Objective 4.1: Development and retention of qualified administrators
and staff by providing professional development
opportunities that promote excellence in pursuit
of transformational leadership; enhance student
experience and learning.
Objective 4.2:Provide professional development opportunities for faculty
that expand on their understanding of
transformative leadership, teaching, research
and public service.
Objective 4.3: Promote student leadership and development opportunities.
Objective 4.4: Identify and develop campus-wide performance expectations
that support an emerging and innovative
institution of higher education. These expectations
will support first class engagement with all
constituents, especially our student body.
Objective 4.5: Continually evaluate how we are performing based on
identified performance expectations, student,
alumni, peer and community feedback.
Objective 4.6: Promote a standard of excellence.