2025-2026 GOALS AND UPDATES
Goal #1
Launch Core Values and Show Up training with student leaders and incoming students via Fall Orientation and FYS Courses.
Goal Owner
Mark Black, Marci Craig, and Missie Gardner
Fall 2025 Update
This initiative is now complete. During the first semester of the 2025-2026 academic year, we trained 1,046 students, beginning with student leaders involved in start‑of‑year activities, including Preview and Orientation guides, residence life staff, and others. We then hosted five core values sessions for all incoming students during Fall Orientation. We reinforced these lessons with extended training – including introductory Show Up concepts – in approximately 20 First‑Year Seminar classes.
Throughout the program, we also emphasized building integrity around Title VI and Title IX to help students make responsible, ethical decisions as campus leaders and to foster an environment in which every member of our community is acknowledged, respected, valued, and celebrated. At the end of each session, students completed a short quiz to measure comprehension, generating 1,046 responses with an average score of 95%, demonstrating strong retention of the material.
Fall 2025 Updates reflect progress on strategic plan goals through December 31, 2025. Goals are at different stages of advancement, and varying levels of progress are expected as priorities are balanced over time.
2025-2026 GOALS AND UPDATES
Goal #2
Revamp community service offerings for the campus community to meet increased interest on campus with more innovative and engaging events that are of interest to students.
Goal Owner
Abby Schroeder
Fall 2025 Update
We have focused on efforts to increase participation in our traditional community service offerings by tabling weekly to spread the word about what we offer while expanding our other events. New offerings have been created, and we have increased the number of students who are paid to work in the Regula Center. We have also assisted with oversight of federal work study community service positions and increased their numbers. Finally, we have offered additional Food for Thought conversations to increase the number of facilitated sessions about topics that are hard to discuss.
Fall 2025 Updates reflect progress on strategic plan goals through December 31, 2025. Goals are at different stages of advancement, and varying levels of progress are expected as priorities are balanced over time.
2025-2026 GOALS AND UPDATES
Goal #3
Continue to meet the needs of students through Raiders Cove’s traditional outreach, including food, hygiene, and clothing, while expanding to include affordable entertainment options for students.
Goal Owner
Abby Schroeder
Fall 2025 Update
Raiders Cove has continued its regular outreach, and it is going well. We are assessing policies and budget dollars that are hurdles to the entertainment component.
Fall 2025 Updates reflect progress on strategic plan goals through December 31, 2025. Goals are at different stages of advancement, and varying levels of progress are expected as priorities are balanced over time.
2025-2026 GOALS AND UPDATES
Goal #4
Continue to explore the implementation of Modern Campus or an equivalent to enhance student success and retention, as well as bolster institutional alignment with prescribed cocurricular assessment goals from the Higher Learning Commission.
Goal Owner
Jesse Cunion and Casey Casper
Fall 2025 Update
Progress on implementing Modern Campus (MC) was slowed by further discussions of campus capacity for new software and possible elements of Ellucian software that could contribute to the MC goals. After determining that Ellucian cannot provide what is needed, we took the next step in the MC process, which includes reference calls with information technology professionals at current MC user campuses. Unfortunately, the outreach for those calls went out late in the fall semester, just before the holidays, so between that and the start of a new semester, we are still working to schedule them. Once reference calls are completed, we anticipate being able to quickly move forward to form an implementation team. The target date for an initial implementation meeting is no later than February 23, 2026, with an ideal start date of approximately February 9, 2026. In the meantime, we asked our MC representative to send a draft contract for review and evaluation by the Office of Business Affairs as we wrap up final steps in the MC review process.
Fall 2025 Updates reflect progress on strategic plan goals through December 31, 2025. Goals are at different stages of advancement, and varying levels of progress are expected as priorities are balanced over time.
2025-2026 GOALS AND UPDATES
Goal #5
Develop and implement a comprehensive communication plan focused on student retention by leveraging the Ellucian Advise CRM, establishing a content calendar and messaging map for consistent outreach, and defining KPIs with a structured approach for data collection, analysis, and reporting.
Goal Owner
Caitlin Clark and Dominic Golembiewski
Fall 2025 Update
There is no update for this goal at this time.
Fall 2025 Updates reflect progress on strategic plan goals through December 31, 2025. Goals are at different stages of advancement, and varying levels of progress are expected as priorities are balanced over time.
