Spring/Summer 2015
UNCW is a terrific school, and over the next few months, we will work together to strategize ways to make it even better. I plan to listen, listen and then listen some more. I want to talk with our students, faculty and staff, alumni, local and state leaders and the entire UNCW community. I tend to bring many people into important discussions, it is better to have more inclusiveness, more diversity of thought, than otherwise.

… And Listen We Have!!!
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Students
⁻ Frequent Communication with SGA Leadership
⁻ Speaking/Q & A with Honor, Transfer, Ambassador, Individual Students
⁻ Convocation
⁻ Involvement Carnival
⁻ Emails, One-on-One Meetings
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Faculty
⁻ Frequent Communication with Faculty Senate President
⁻ Meetings with Faculty Senate Steering Committee, Faculty Senate in Full, Etc.
⁻ One-on-One Meetings with all Faculty/Chairs of Departments, Individual
Faculty (Int’l Studies, Film Studies, Chemistry, Aquaculture, Etc.)
⁻ Meeting with new Faculty, Faculty Advisors to Athletics, Departments (Biology),
Int’l Faculty, College Faculty (WCE), CHHS Convocation
⁻ Attendance at Faculty Picnics

… And Listen We Have!!!
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Staff
⁻ Communication with Staff Senate President
⁻ Meeting/Q & A with Staff Senate on Strategic Plan/ Others
⁻ Staff Awards Ceremony
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Alumni / Friends
⁻ Speaking/Q & A at Alumni Association Board Meetings
⁻ Reception with Past Presidents of Alumni Board
⁻ Dinner with 1949-1965 Alumni
⁻ Individual Meeting with Alumni in Wilmington, High Point, Raleigh Etc.
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Athletics
⁻ Frequent Communication with A.D./Deputy A.D.
⁻ Discussions on Facility Master Plan, Support Donors, COA, Etc.

… And Listen We Have!!!
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Donors
⁻ More than 50 Donors Around the State
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Parents
⁻ Orientation, Parents’ Week, High Point, Raleigh
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Corporations
⁻ Screen Gems
⁻ Port of Wilmington
⁻ IKA
⁻ New Hanover Regional Hospital
⁻ BB&T
⁻ Live Oak Bank / N-CINO
⁻ AAI Pharma
⁻ GE/Hitachi

… And Listen We Have!!!
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Governments
⁻ U.S. Congressmen
⁻ State Senate/House Members
⁻ Mexico Consul General
⁻ U.A.E Attache
⁻ Governor General of Belize
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Partners
⁻ Community Colleges: Cape Fear, Brunswick, Coastal Carolina, Carteret, Craven
⁻ Military: MCAS Cherry Point
⁻ Wilmington City Council
⁻ International Islamic University, Islamabad

… And Listen We Have!!!
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Speeches
⁻ Wilmington Chamber of Commerce
⁻ Senior Men’s Club
⁻ GWBJ Power Breakfast
⁻ UNCW
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EPP
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Business Affairs Conference
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Support Staff Conference
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QENO
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A&S Retreat
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CREST
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MBA Class

… And Listen We Have!!!
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Media Interviews / Q & A
⁻ BBC World Radio
⁻ Port City Daily
⁻ Lumina News
⁻ WHQR / NPR Coastline
⁻ The Seahawk
⁻ The Chronicle of Higher Education
⁻ Met with StarNews Publisher/Editors/Reporters
⁻ WWAY tour of Kenan House
⁻ TV Interviews with WECT, WWAY, Etc.

Decisions Have Been Made…
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Continuation of Track & Field Program
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SAE Back as Student Organization
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Open Positions Getting Filled
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Searches Underway for Key Leadership Positions
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Chief of Staff
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CIO
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International
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Online

Foundations Are Solid and Promising…
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2015 Total Enrollment: 14,969
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2015 Freshmen Class: 2024
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2015 Transfer Students: 1420
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Online: 1582
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International: 350
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Retention: 84% (4 th in the State)
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6 Yr Grad. Rate: Overall, 71% (3 rd in the State); Transfers 79% (1 st in the State)
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Growth Being Funded: Latest Budget
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New Facilities on the Horizon
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Fundraising: $9.1M in 2014-2015; This Year Numbers Look Promising
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Sponsored Research: 225 Total, $12.9M, 2 nd highest in 5 Years
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Academic Progress Rate (APR): 12 out of 18 Sports, Perfect 1,000

Freshmen Class Profile

Freshmen Class Profile
Laney, Apex, Ashley, Cary, Millbrook, Hoggard, Sanderson, Wake Forest-Rolesville
Wake, Mecklenburg, New Hanover, Guilford, Union, Cumberland, Forsyth, Orange, Johnston
Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts
Canada, Columbia, Germany, Sweden, Mexico, Switzerland

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Freshmen Class Profile
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Freshmen Class Profile
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Transfer Class Profile

Transfer Class Profile
Cape Fear CC, Wake Tech CC, Coastal Carolina CC, Central Piedmont CC, Brunswick CC,
East Carolina, UNC Charlotte, NC State, Appalachian State, UNC Greensboro
New Hanover, Onslow, Wake, Brunswick, Mecklenburg, Pender, Guilford
New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Connecticut
China, Honduras, United Kingdom, Columbia

Transfer Class Profile
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1985
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1990
548
1995
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977
2005
1228
2010
1265
2015
1420

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3 rd Best College Baseball Program of the Past Decade – ValuePenguin.com
3 rd MFA Program (Non-Fiction Creative Writing) - Poets & Writers
7 th Best College in North Carolina – BestColleges.com
7 th Online Nursing Program - Online U
10 th Online Education Program - Online U
10 th Best in Value Consumers Digest
12 th Best Bang-for-the-Buck (Master’s Universities )
Washington Monthly
15 th Most Beautiful Coastal Campus - Best Values Schools
16 th Best in the South (6 th among public universities) – U.S. News & World Report
22 nd Best Online Programs for Veterans U.S. News & World Report
23 rd Best Bang-for-the-Buck (overall) - Washington Monthly
 35 th Best Online Graduate Education Programs U.S. News & World Report
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42 nd MFA Program (Fiction Creative Writing) - Poets & Writers
49 th Best Value - The Business Journal

Dear Faculty, Staff, Students, Alumni, and Friends of UNCW,
The development of a Strategic Plan is critical to the success of institutions, and certainly for institutions of higher learning.
As you explore this website, please take this time to learn about the process we are utilizing to develop UNCW’s Strategic Plan. Starting with a draft that was shared with faculty, students and staff leadership as well as the Board of Trustees, our expanded Leadership Council is now addressing questions of vision, mission, values, and strategic priorities. Seven teams are at work and as they make progress, they will be holding open forums so that the whole university can participate in the process through idea generation and vetting.
Thank you in advance for your contributions and let’s make this Strategic Plan the pathway for an even greater UNCW.
Respectfully,
Jose V. Sartarelli
Chancellor

Current Strategic Planning Documents & Resources
Presentation to Board of Trustees (July 2015)
Presentation to Expanded Leadership Council (September 9, 2015)
Template for Strategic Priorities, Goals
Workgroup Membership
Key Dates and Tentative Schedule of Meetings
UNCW Mission Statements Since 2009
UNCW Office of Institutional Research & Assessment/OIRA
UNC Our Time, Our Future: The UNC Compact with North Carolina and Related Documents
UNC Data Dashboard

GOALS
Objectives / Drivers
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STUDENTS
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Workgroup SWOT Analysis
Vision/Mission/
Values
Attract/
Retain Research Enable
Organize/
Engage
Fund/
Build
Chair:
Membership:
Chris Finelli
Steffany Cohen
Nathan Crowe
Mark Galizio
Cathy Barlow
Dawn Brown
Andy Mauk
Pam Seaton
Van Dempsey
Art Frampton
Candace Thompson Vibeke Olson
Ron Vetter
Sarah Watstein
Michael White
Charlie Hardy Martin Posey
Stuart Borrett Antje Almeida
Cara Cilano Dan Baden
Terry Curran Jess Boersma Rosalynn Martin David Donaldson Carrie Clements
Tracy Hargrove Rigo Rincones-Gomez Lauri Patterson Steve Elliott Susan Fairlcoth
Venita Jenkins Dan McCord Jeanne Persuit Carol Heinrich Jennifer Horan
Adrienne Swinney Mark Morgan Ann Pabst
Brian Victor Sara Thorndike Bev Vagnerini
Brad Walker Paul Townend Mike Walker
Tammy Hunt Lori Messinger Christy Ward
Jeffrey Bruinsma Kristen Brogdon Sharon Boyd
Lindsay LeRoy Natasha Davis Rob Burrus
John Rack
Thom Rakes
Jimmy Reeves
Lynn Leonard
Susan Simmons
Stefanie Powell
Donyell Roseboro Bob Roer
Aswani Volety
Cabinet
Representative Eddie Stuart Pat Leonard Kent Guion John Scherer Janine Iamunno Jimmy Bass Rick Whitfield

Key Dates and Tentative Schedule of Meetings, including Expanded Leadership Council for Strategic Planning, Workgroups, Workgroup Chairs, and Open Forums Updated 9/21/15
July 14, Staff Senate
July 14, Deans
Initial presentation of concepts/draft
Initial presentation of concepts/draft
July 15, Leadership Council
July 17, Board of Trustees
Initial presentation of concepts/draft
Initial presentation of concepts/draft
August 11, Faculty Senate Steering Comm. Initial presentation of concepts/draft
August 12, Leadership Council Discussion of structure, with additional faculty
September 9, Expanded Council Charge to workgroups
September 10, alternate time
September 10 to September 22
September 23, Workgroup Chairs
September 24 to September 29
September 29, Expanded Council
October 1, Campus Open Forum
October 2 to October 13
October 14, Leadership Council
October 16, Board of Trustees
For workgroup members who cannot attend on Sept. 9
Meetings of workgroups
Updates and discussion
Meetings of workgroups
Updates and discussion; plan for open forum
Meetings of workgroups
Updates and discussion, with workgroup chairs
Update and discussion
Meetings of workgroups October 19 to November 3
October 21, Second Open Forum
November 4, Workgroup Chairs
November 5 to November 10
November 11, Expanded Council
November 12 to November 17
November 18, Workgroup Chairs
December 2, Expanded Council
December 16, Expanded Council
Updates and discussion
Meetings of workgroups
Updates and discussion
Meetings of workgroups
Updates and discussion
Possible presentation of final workgroup reports
Possible presentation of final workgroup reports

UNCW
2020
Total students
Growth/Quality
100 active scholarships
1150-1300
SAT Range
90% retention
75% graduation
Continuous accreditation 100 Fortune 500 companies to campus to recruit
Increase level of engagement in Cape
Fear Region
$20M in sponsored research
League-competitive in key sports
10-20 chairs/ professorships
New programs operationalized
1500 Trifecta
* Study abroad
* Int’l students
* Online
$10M-$20M in gifts/yr
(10% of alumni giving)
70 th Anniversary

Visionary Principled Engaged Inclusive
Vision Strategy Structure Staffing
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Get to know people and issues
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Start envisioning early/keep it simple/execute
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Develop a “coalition of the willing”/delegate
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Treat people with dignity and respect and play to their strengths
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Go out for early hits/collaborate/“share success”
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Balance people’s priorities, boss’s priorities and own priorities