FORT LEWIS COLLEGE
VISION, MISSION & VALUES
VISION: We strive to be the finest public liberal arts college in the western United
States.
MISSION: Fort Lewis College offers accessible, high quality, baccalaureate liberal arts
education to a diverse student population, preparing citizens for the common
good in an increasingly complex world.
VALUES: Student success is at the center of all college endeavors. The college is
dedicated to the highest quality liberal arts education that develops the whole
person for success in life and work.
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FORT LEWIS COLLEGE
STRATEGIC PLAN GOALS
1. Increase student success.
2. Develop selected programs in areas of
strength—ones with significant
market demand and which will
operate at a surplus within a
reasonable time.
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FORT LEWIS COLLEGE
STRATEGIC PLAN GOALS
3. Implement pedagogically appropriate
technologies for the curriculum and the
population that the courses are currently
serving
4. Enhance the comprehensive
undergraduate enrollment management
plan
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FORT LEWIS COLLEGE
STRATEGIC PLAN GOALS
5. Continuously assess the efficiency
and effectiveness of all programs and
services at Fort Lewis College.
6. Capitalize on Fort Lewis College’s
location.
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International Travel
• Relationship building with alumni
• Reputation and partnership building with other educational institutions and government
agencies:
• American University of Sharjah
(UAE)
• Zayed University (UAE)
• Higher Colleges of Technology (UAE)
• American Community School (UAE)
• The UAE Ministry of Education
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Waseda University (Japan)
Tokyo Gakugei (Japan)
University Secondary School (Japan)
American School in Japan
International Education Systems
(Japan)
United Arab Emirates
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Japan – Alumni Reception
(May 11, 2013)
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Japan – Waseda University in Tokyo
(May 13, 2013)
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Linda Angell,
Director of International Programs at the American University
of Sharjah Visits Durango on August 14-15, 2013.
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Tosh Ogura, Yutaka Hagiwara, and Kuniyuki
Shibahara at the offices of International
Education Systems in Tokyo, Japan on May 13, 2013.
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The Geoscience, Physics, Engineering Building
(GPE Building)
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Enrollment
August 19, 2013
In-State
Native
NM Reciprocal
Out-of-State
Native
Out-of-State NonNative
Resident
Totals
Change
from 2012
Continuing
101
60
541
411
1449
2562
3.7%
Freshman
30
42
172
193
432
869
-0.5%
Guest
1
0
2
0
7
10
N/A
Master’s
0
0
0
1
20
21
N/A
NSE
0
0
1
4
0
5
-28.6%
Returning
4
0
13
7
22
46
-8.0%
Transfer
13
10
125
96
137
381
2.7%
Unclassified
0
0
4
42
7
53
1.9%
Concurrent
0
0
0
0
14
14
-58.8%
149
112
858
754
2,088
3,961
8.0%
-0.9%
7.3%
14.6%
-2.8%
2.7%
Type
Totals
Change from 2012
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Durango Welcome Center
• The Office of Admission
reports that 41 high
school students filled out
contact cards at
Welcome Center over
last year
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3 applied
2 are now enrolled for
Fall 2013
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FLC Organizational Chart
The College’s organizational chart is updated and available
online:
www.fortlewis.edu/humanresources/Resources/OrganizationalChart.aspx.
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ACADEMIC AFFAIRS
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Quality Initiative Milestones
• Degree Maps and Honest Credit Counts
• Early Alert-Map Works
• Academic Standards-progression towards degree
• Degree Tracking-Change from WebOpus to College Source coming Spring 2014
• Working with departments in 2013/14 to develop Multi-year Schedule of Instructions
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Student Success Collaborative
• A group of institutions dedicated to sharing best practices, data analytics, and an innovative
platform for surfacing insight into the academic barriers that impede graduation.
• Combines technology, research, and predicative analytics to help institutions positively inflect
outcomes with at risk and off-path students
• Provides best practice research and practical advice to colleges and universities across the
Untied States
• Provides benchmarking data and reports compared to other institutions
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What will SSC do for us?
• Growing consortium of colleges and universities that we will be able to benchmark
• Cutting edge staff dedicated to using best practices to develop analytical tools and
methodologies
• Ability to ask and frame important research questions pertinent to not only us but to the
nation
• Force us to question the status quo, test our assumptions
• Provides us with new opportunities
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Strategy Team
• Program Sponsor- Barbara Morris, Provost
• Program Leaders- Kim Hannula, Assoc. Dean SAS and Suzanne Wilhelm, Assoc. Dean SOBA
• Technology Leaders- Orien McGlamery, Asst. Director Institutional research and Planning, Matt
McGlamery, Director IT, James Bodine, Manager Web Services and Middleware IT
• Value Leaders- Carol Smith, Assoc. VP Enrollment Management, Andy Burns, Director of
Admissions, Beverly Chew, Professor Psychology and Coordinator, Degree Planning, Bridget
Irish, Asst. Dean SAS, Crystal Fankhauser, Campus Coordinator Degree Completion, Deb
Walker, Professor Economics, Jim Cross, Assoc. Professor Exercise Science, Ginny Davis, Assoc.
Professor Theater
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New Hires and Technology
• Hired E-Learning Director Kelly Stanley
• Working on policies and strategies to develop and support alternative curriculum
and instructional delivery models.
• Nearing selection of new management system
• Implementation expected in late fall/early winter
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Higher Learning
Commission Accreditation
Visit 2015
Save the Date
September 19
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Some Important Upcoming Policy
Updates/Changes
• Curriculum
• Learning Management System
• Assessment
• Study Abroad
• Program Review
• Field Trips
• Intellectual Property
• Outside Work
• Online Course Evaluation
• Course Syllabus
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