
Strategic Pillars
- Enhancing and marketing the centrality of the academic experience
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- fully implementing the McDaniel Commitment
- developing programs that enhance the GPS portfolio
- fully building new majors and programs
- increasing alumni engagement
- highlighting value-added components even in a virtual world
- recruiting in a COVID environment
- Financial viability/vitality in a turbulent world
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- insuring cash flow
- crafting austerity measures that do not cripple the core educational enterprise
- securing capital through TRB, fundraising, and credit
- synthesizing and integrating work functions to emerge as a leaner organization
- Equity and inclusion
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- addressing the new realities of a diverse student body
- building support structures and role models to sustain them
- developing a comprehensive and measurable DEI strategic plan under the guidance of our three DEI advisory groups
- Optionality
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- building a culture of agility
- implementing hyflex pedagogy across the faculty
- addressing housing concerns
- Safety as job one
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- accommodating the new realities
- redesigning space
- maintaining and cleaning facilities
- managing housing and campus life under social distancing
- Auxiliary revenue
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- leveraging institutional expertise
- integrating WMC Development
- Caring for the community
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- insuring the well-being of faculty and staff
- retaining students
- fully realizing “culture eats strategy for breakfast”
- Long-range planning
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- What size
- What discount
- What mix of programs