Goals

Maintain an environment that emphasizes excellence, innovation and technology in teaching and learning and results in lifelong purposeful learners.
Enhance the diversity of the students, faculty, administration, and staff to improve the campus milieu in which they interact and to make the curriculum more gender-balanced and inclusive of different cultures and ethnic perspectives.
Develop and provide curricula in the liberal arts and professional fields that are responsive to the needs of our student body, the region and society at large.
Enhance and expand opportunities for students, faculty, administration and staff to become engaged in community service activities within the region.
Continue to provide and expand multicultural activities complementary to curricular programs and to support the establishment of a campus environment that embraces an understanding and appreciation of diversity.
Offer co-curricular programs that provides all students with a wide array of opportunities to enhance their development by being engaged in campus activities as leaders and as active participants.
Enhance student development opportunities in the campus community that are complementary to curricular programs by enhancing and/or expanding programs and services in order 1) to more effectively utilize technology on the campus, with special emphasis on the residence halls, for increased educational impact, improved safety and security and higher levels of personal satisfaction, 2) to assess, re-engineer and better promote a residential living environment that supports and encourages academic success and personal development in a community setting, 3) to increase the involvement of students in the management and governance of the campus, 4) to continue planning for further physical enhancements and renovation of divisional facilities in an effort to provide safe, secure, inviting and educationally beneficial living/learning environments and 5) to improve the quality of all services in the Student Affairs division that meet the basic needs of students, such as food service, medical care, housing, psychological/emotional support and financial aid.
Maintain and develop resource management systems and procedures that provide timely and accurate information, assure sufficient accountability and compliance, and support further decentralization of budgetary management and control.
Develop a more effective and people-oriented approach to the provision of financial, administrative, human resources, facilities, public safety and computing services to the university community through application of technology, staff training and functional realignment.
Make the advantages of state-of-the-art computing and information technology available to all elements of the university using non-proprietary standards and the shared computing power inherent in networking.
Develop campus physical facilities to more adequately support current programs and services as well as future directions. Develop a facilities master plan to assure efficient and effective allocation and use of space, long-term viability of facilities through adequate maintenance and repair programs, and regulatory and statutory compliance.
Implement a university-wide marketing program complementing the enrollment management process of the institution that will result in an undergraduate and graduate applicant pool from which to select incoming classes of students who will represent greater diversity, who will graduate in greater numbers and who will yield the best match of interests and abilities with the resources of the university and the needs of the region.
Continue programs, initiatives and activities that enhance the work of alumni development, friendraising, and overall university enhancement as it pertains to institutional advocacy and Foundation fundraising.
Continue emphasizing the university's role in enhancing the quality of life in its service region through economic development initiatives, town/gown relations programming, shared cultural and educational activities, and public service.