Priorities and Objectives
Strategic Priority 1
Elevate the distinctive, high quality education that has been a hallmark of education at SMWC
- Create a culture of innovation and accountability within academic offerings, with special focus on growing health science and business programs that remain focused on our liberal arts mission
- Grow new program offerings to enhance recruitment opportunities and choice for students.
- Establish an assessment competency training program
- Commit to student success in mind, body, and spirit
- Build a culture focused on student success
- Increase on-time graduation rates of all students
- Promote health and wellness for SMWC Community for all employees and students
- Commit to experiential learning opportunities for students, including service learning, curricular, and co-curricular opportunities
- Increase faculty commitment to and awareness of experiential learning opportunities.
- Increase student participation in experiential learning opportunities
- Commit to diversification of enrollment through programs and offerings in co-education, sports, adult students, and matriculating foreign students
- Continue to implement and grow coeducational opportunities
- Increase international and study abroad student opportunities to increase enrollment and enhance the student experience
- Create opportunities for diversification of student body through increased minority representation
- Provide new and additional course formats to increase enrollment
- Develop leaders that transform themselves and their communities
- Embed leadership into all areas of learning for all students with a special emphasis on General Studies and major programs
Strategic Priority 2
Provide a college environment that is relevant to overall student success and enhances students’ quality of life through improvements to facilities and IT
- Develop a security-minded environment, providing security for physical, virtual, and data systems
- Create a culture where campus-wide safety and risk prevention are a priority
- Adopt effective assessment and review measures for IT Systems, procedures and staffing resources, and implement necessary changes/improvements accordingly
- Create a culture of continued technological evolution, consistently seeking to improve existing systems and offerings
- Support effective campus operations, including teaching and learning through current technology
- SMWC IT will become highly agile and responsive to the constantly changing face of technology in Higher Education by exploiting our key attributes and those of other industry-leading institutions
- Address critical deferred maintenance issues in an effort to improve and enhance quality of life, enrollment and retention, increase auxiliary revenue and maintain a commitment to the historic architecture of the building
- Renovate Le Fer Hall to increase enrollment and retention of on campus students
- Renovate the Mary and Andy Rooney Library to provide enhanced academic and student services
- Renovate Anne Therese Guerin Hall to expand enrollment growth opportunities
- Renovate the Conservatory of Music to expand academic programming and grow the arts culture at the College
- Renovate Mary Fendrich Hulman Hall to provide academic program growth
- Update the stables and enhance student enrollment and community growth opportunities
- Create a more welcoming presence on campus for prospective students
- Improve campus beautification and aesthetics
- Create a plan to clean up, refurbish, secure and develop the outdoor campus
- Improve sustainability in all practices
Strategic Priority 3
Enhance perception of the College through renewed focus on outreach and partnerships, emphasizing the value of relationships that has always been a critical part of education at SMWC
- Grow the community partner footprint to raise awareness and identity of SMWC
- Strengthen the Catholic identity
- Include faith, service, and spirituality in the institutional brand strategy
- Broaden focus of Catholic identity to internal audiences
- Align institutional priorities with alumni, corporate, organizational and other partners to enhance educational opportunities through increased revenue at SMWC
- Expand partnerships related to academics, internship, student teaching and study abroad opportunities
- Increase auxiliary revenue
- Build a stronger awareness with internal audiences regarding public engagement initiatives
- Elevate the level of marketing and commitment to increasing awareness of SMWC
- Identify and implement clear and enduring brand strategy with an institutional commitment to maintain consistency for a 5 year period
- Identify key initiatives and academic programs to promote for increased enrollment growth
- Enhance digital communication
- Raise regional and national visibility of the institution
- Best communicate the value of the SMWC educational experience
- Elevate a liberal arts education as relevant to all majors and careers to educate the whole person
- Enhance internal communication efforts and create a climate of engagement