Mayville State University
Strategic Plan
2023-2029
Goal Area: Optimize Financial Health
Objective: Develop financial modeling and processes that engage and communicate with stakeholders
- Activity: Engage faculty and staff transparently in budget creation
- Activity: Report financial information transparently
- Activity: Develop revenue models that drive growth
Objective: Develop a sustainable human resource model that supports and values all employees
- Activity: Create and implement professional development opportunities
- Activity: Development of a comprehensive hiring/compensation model
- Activity: Assess and revise job descriptions, duties, and compensation
Objective: Enrollment growth through retention and recruitment
- Activity: Develop efficiencies and programming
- Activity: Grow enrollment in needed workforce areas through data-driven decision making
- Activity: Enhance the student experience through campus activities
Goal Area: Pursue an optimal learning, living, and working environment
Objective: Strengthening the University through internal and external relationship building
- Activity: Maximize State Challenge grant through continued work with the Foundation
- Activity: Expand Foundation development through donor relations
- Activity: Renew commitment to our core values for the needs of contemporary higher education
Objective: Improve infrastructure
- Activity: Further development of physical campus amenities
- Activity: Further development of campus safety infrastructure
- Activity: Old Main renovation/Building improvements to promote student success
- Activity: Further development of stakeholder support for infrastructure improvement
Objective: Support the positive mental well-being of students, staff, and faculty
- Activity: Identify and pursue additional resources to provide holistic mental health case work for students
- Activity: Additional student, faculty, and staff training to support positive mental well-being
- Activity: Promote activities that support positive mental wellbeing
- Activity: Commit to open communication that promotes positive mental well-being
Goal Area: Engagement and Support for Student Success
Objective: Expand academic support opportunities
- Activity: Prepare and submit grants specific to providing student academic support
- Activity: Plan and implement additional study tables with academic support staff
- Activity: Explore coordinated academic support for academically underperforming students
- Activity: Develop holistic student experience for online students
Objective: Development of data collection, reporting, and analysis processes for improved student outreach, events, and engagement
- Activity: Establish consistent processes to collect club membership and event participation information
Objective: Development of student life and campus event coordination
- Activity: Develop processes for timely notification of campus events
- Activity: Identify human resources to accomplish coordination of Student Life
Goal Area: Innovative and Flexible Programming to Impact Workforce Development
Objective: Academic Program Development
- Activity: Identify 3 levels of academic program development and associated risk benefit (examples given below)
Low investment, low risk/return: have resources in place currently
Medium investment, medium risk/return: moderate resources in place
High investment, high risk/return: little/no resources in place - Activity: Identify potential program(s) within each level to pursue over next 3-5 years
Objective: Industry partnership and relationship development
- Activity: Engage partnerships in industries identified for potential program development
- Activity: Maintain and enhance partnerships in existing program areas
Objective: Partnership development with regional Public Schools
- Activity: Focus on existing and developing regional Career Academies
- Activity: Focus on Education programming including early childhood, special ed, and secondary math and science
- Activity: Develop opportunities to expand Education graduate programs
Objective: Articulation and Transfer Pathway Development with regional Community, Technical, and Tribal Colleges
- Activity: Articulation reaffirmation and new articulation development
- Activity: Alignment of relevant programs to MinnState Transfer Pathways tied to associated articulations
- Activity: Development of Transfer Pathway (2+2) with NDUS 2 year programs
- Activity: Develop transfer pathway and new articulations with regional Tribal Colleges