ENABLE/PLACE STUDENTS FOR SUCCESS
GOALS
METRICS
OWNER(S)
TIMING
FUNDING
 Within
three years
 State funding,
university
funds,
additional fulltime faculty
positions must
be secured
Objectives / Drivers
GOAL 1
Aim for 90% retention at first year.
• Strengthen UNI with
more full time faculty
instructors, along with
more learning
communities, themed
UNI course sections and
alumni involvement
• Increased incentives to FT
faculty who teach UNI, as
well as advise with
University College
 Number of full time lecturers and
tenured, TT faculty who teach
UNI compensated at overload
course rate, or within normal
teaching load
 Number of FT faculty who
respond to incentives and advise
with University College OR,
alternately, hire more University
College advisors to handle
workload
 University
College
 Academic Chairs,
Deans
 Faculty
 Academic Affairs
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Objectives / Drivers
GOAL 2
Aim for 75% six-year graduation rate
• Restore lost tenure track
faculty positions and hire
additional TT positions
for enrollment growth
• Provide regular
faculty/staff training for
more effective and
consistent advising
• Simplify Univ. Studies and
improve degree audit
 Increased funding for advising
staff and faculty training and
tutorials
 Standard advisor/student and
faculty/student ratios on campus
 Acquire new degree audit
software and implement changes
to simplify university studies
requirements
• Establish univ. wide
advisor/student ratios of
1/175 for professional
advisors
• Establish faculty/student
ratios of 1/20
• More consistency across
depts./schools with
professional advising staff
 Compare annually with other
UNC schools & peer institutions
 Promote success and rank #s
with external stakeholders
 Creation of Student Support
centers in each dept, school and
college to support Associate
Dean of undergraduate in
monitoring student progress
 University
College
 Academic Affairs
 Deans, Associate
Deans
 Faculty
 Within
three years
for
implementa
tion of staff
and audit
changes
while
monitoring
grad. Rates
 State,
university,
donations,
 Need full time
professional
advising
positions and
staff positions
 Within 3-5
years
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Objectives / Drivers
GOAL 3 Increase support for ETEAL and University College, particularly in
the area of recruiting lower achieving, minority, international, online and
extension students to applied learning opportunities
• Continue tracking first
year at-risk students,
involve them in support
services
• Introduce applied learning
and ETEAL in UNI courses
• Ensure that online and
extension students have
access to applied learning
activities
• Work with UNCW alumni
to partner for more
applied learning
opportunities
• Increased funding for
ETEAL
 Numbers from at-risk, minority,
international, online and
extension students participating
in applied learning
 Funds budgeted to continue
ETEAL programs
 Additionally, hire more UC
advisors (see Goal #1)
 ETEAL Advisory
Board
 Academic Affairs
 AVC- UG studies
 Ongoing, at
least five
years
 State funds,
University
fund raising,
advancement,
other
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Objectives / Drivers
GOAL 4 Ensure recruiting, advising and Career Center work hand-in-hand to
ensure student success
• Increased funding for
proposed UNI changes (2
+1 for 1st and 2nd year)
• Increased funding for an
elective sophomore
career exploration course
• Increase student use of
career exploration
software, campus career
events, and job fairs
• Track students and
alumni through ONE
campus database
• Assess academic
intervention plans for
underperforming
students, and those who
change majors
• Utilize alumni as speakers
and mentors
 Track students from preadmission interests to potential
major identified at orientation,
to major declarations to change
in majors to graduation. Identify
patterns in student paths to
degrees.
 Improve communication in
student academic intervention
process
 Invest time and measure
success at gathering career and
contact information from
alumni
 Coordinate integration of any
shadow databases to create
only one campus database
where all student and alumni
information are kept.
 Track alumni involvement
 Institutional
Research
 Advancement
(Alumni Relat.)
 University
College
 Academic
Affairs
 University
college and
professional
advisors
 Admissions
 Department
Chairs
 Student Affairs
(Seahawk Link)
 Student Affairs
(Career Center)
 Fall 2016
 State funding,
University
budget, other
 Need positions
for either the
ORA or
Advancement
Services to
manage the
database
 Alumni
Employer
Development
position
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Objectives / Drivers
GOAL 5 Aim to bring 100+ Fortune 500 companies, top government
organizations and NGOs to campus to recruit students annually
• Use technology to bring
these companies to
campus through webbased technology
• Continue and grow
graduate school fairs
• Grow job recruiting fairs,
through partnerships with
other UNC campuses and
peer schools
• Secure funding for
Assistant Director of
Alumni Employer
Relations and Assoc.
Director for Employer
Development to build
alumni intern/job
relationships
 Increased national marketing plan
to recruit students to UNCW
 Use high quality digital media to
provide opportunities for
distance employer interaction
 Number of alumni connections to
internships and career jobs
 Grow network of representative
Administrators, Deans, faculty
and staff to coordinate
connection visits with key
employers
 Number of new employers
participating in career events
 Number of employers contacting
UNCW students virtually
 Number of alumni employer
interactions
 Academic
Affairs,
 Career Center
 Alumni Relations
 Faculty in key
programs
 Within
three years
 State funds,
University
fundraising,
Other
 New ALR
position
needed
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Objectives / Drivers
GOAL 6 Ensure students develop a personal identity/brand from day one at
UNCW to compete in the marketplace or to pursue graduate education
• Strengthen commitment
by faculty, staff and
students to prepare early
for career job search or
graduate education
• Increase number of
students beginning their
e-Portfolio each year
• Make e-Portfolios
available in master
database
 Measures understanding of
personal and professional
identity; benchmark against peer
universities annually
 Number of students building ePortfolios tracked in master
database
 Number of UNI sessions and
campus speakers on industry,
organizational, and graduate
school topics
 Student Affairs
(including Career
Center, SGA,
Office of Student
Leadership &
Engagement,
Fraternity and
Sorority Life,
Student
Organizations),
Athletics,
Housing and
Residence Life,
University
College
 In place by
Fall 2016
 State funding,
university
funds, funding
for student
programming
 Funding for CoCurricular
Transcript/EPortfolio
Coordinator for
campus-wide
management
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GOAL 7 Ensure students’ participation in experiential learning, study abroad and
internships. Increase current participation in all three by 15% within three years.
• Increase number of
students participating in
experiential learning,
study abroad coursework,
and internships
• Track student
participation and use
website for success
stories
• Provide funding to assist
every student who wants
to participate
 Incorporate applied learning
assessment data into central
campus database.
 Include all internships and study
abroad experiences into
database.
 Track internship positions that
lead to job offers.
 ETEAL
 Dean of UG
Students
 Assessment
Director
 Office of
International
Programs
 Career Center
 Financial Aid
 2.5 years of
funding
remaining
with ETEAL,
then extend
 Within
three years
on others
 State funding,
university
budget,
additional
fund-raising
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Objectives / Drivers
GOAL 8 Increase the number of UNCW students awarded admission to
graduate and professional school programs by 15% within three years.
• Number of graduate
school applications and
tracking acceptance rates
• Offer more graduate
school admission
workshops and fairs.
• Grow the preprofessional student
organizations to
emphasize process of
successful graduate
school admission.
 Number of graduate school
acceptances annually
 Grow the number and quality of
acceptances each year
 Increase and track student
research outcomes
 Track career or alumni mentors
working with students each year
 Graduate School
 Academic Chairs,
Deans
 Faculty
 Academic Affairs
 Career Center
 University
College PreProfessional
Programs
 Within
three years
 State funding,
university
funds,
additional fulltime faculty
positions must
be secured
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METRICS
OWNER(S)
TIMING
FUNDING
Objectives / Drivers
GOAL 9 Commit to additional faculty and staff hiring, increased training and
incentives to increase participation in student success initiatives. These hires
should be to restore positions lost to turnover and retirement, as well as TT
faculty and FT staff positions due to enrollment growth
• Restore faculty and staff
positions lost to
employee turnover and
retirements
• Eliminate the process of
“holding” faculty lines in
AA for one year delay in
recruiting.
• Add faculty and staff
commensurate with
enrollment growth
 Number of faculty and staff
allocated to academic
departments and student
support staff.
 Number of successful hires
through recruiting efforts
 Total transparency in how
positions are allocated on
campus.
 Academic Affairs
 Academic Chairs,
Deans
 Human
Resources
 On-going,
beginning
January
2016
 State funding,
university
funds,
additional fulltime faculty
positions must
be secured
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