Strategic Plan

Institutional Sustainability

Personnel, enrollment and financial resources represent the foundation of an institution’s long-term sustainability. Strengthening these aspects will be crucial for UNCSA to efficiently and effectively fulfill its mission. 

Institutional Sustainability Progress Updates

Personnel Sustainability

• Address challenges in retaining and recruiting UNCSA faculty by bringing compensation levels up to rank minimums, with the long-term goal of achieving salary competitiveness.
• Address issues with UNCSA staff salary equity and competitiveness.
• Implement best practices in employment culture to increase recruitment and retention of faculty and staff by ensuring persons of all backgrounds and experiences are invited, included, and treated respectfully. Create practices and policies that help foster a safe and welcoming climate at UNCSA. 
• Continue and expand the “Quality Workplace Committee” initiative on campus.
• Improve employee workload and efficiency by leveraging existing technology tools across the UNCSA campus and consolidating software platforms where possible. 

Enrollment Sustainability

• Increase the number of full-tuition scholarships offered and the availability of scholarships to competitively recruit in-demand students. 

• Support student progress by increasing the first- and second-year retention rates.

• Increase graduation rate to 80%.

Facilities Sustainability

• Increase the number of full-tuition scholarships offered and the availability of scholarships to competitively recruit in-demand students.  
• Support student progress by increasing the first- and second-year retention rates.
• Implement best practices in access and student success to increase recruitment and retention of students by ensuring persons of all backgrounds and experiences are invited, included, and treated respectfully. 
• Increase graduation rate to 80%. 

Facilities Sustainability

• Support the next steps in the Campus Master Plan, a transformational roadmap for adapting our living and learning environment to improve wayfinding and sense of place, to unify the architectural language of the campus, and to accommodate the growing needs of our creative community.
• Develop a framework to address the need for renovations to high school residence halls.
• Create a responsive physical environment and campus experience that expands accessibility and demonstrates a commitment to the equality of all persons. 
• Renovate the Stevens Center and continue to advocate for the funding needed to elevate associated student learning outcomes and the patron experience.  

Fiscal Sustainability

• Source and execute initiatives to increase efficiency in the use of resources across the UNCSA campus.
• Create and implement a new strategic budgeting process that will increase awareness, engagement and transparency.
• Grow earned revenue from partnerships, strategic alliances and other opportunities. 

Institutional Sustainability Committee Members

• Jim DeCristo, decristoj@uncsa.edu
  Vice Chancellor for Economic Development, Chief of Staff
• Steve Martin, martinw@uncsa.edu
  Associate Vice Chancellor for Facilities Management
• Wendy Emerson, emersonw@uncsa.edu
  Vice Chancellor for Finance & Administration
• Lissy Garrison, garrisonl@uncsa.edu
  Vice Chancellor for Advancement
  
• Rob Myers, myersr@uncsa.edu
  Interim Director of Admissions