- Create targeted enrollment initiatives to increase recruitment from high school
- Develop a comprehensive marketing and communications plan that emphasizes degree opportunities across the system and align communication plans across the system to foster common messaging and branding
- Leverage system-wide outreach programs (e.g. 4-H, STEM programs, athletics, entrepreneurship) as recruitment opportunities
- Create a recruitment network (e.g. high schools, military installations, outreach programs)
- Formalize, expand and market Aggie Pathways for seamless transfer to the university campus
- Develop marketing strategies that target diverse student segments such as transfer, military, returning students, and individuals enrolling with educational gaps
- Adopt holistic recruitment programs that address the needs of a diverse student population, foster inclusion and diversity, engage families, and leverage our vast alumni network
- Create and promote robust online learning programs (fully online degrees, blended programs, online courses, support services)
- Leverage our programs and networks (e.g. student organizations, alumni, and non-profit partners) to increase national and international enrollment
- Collaborate on interdisciplinary academic programs in emerging disciplines
- Align human, financial, and physical resources to support student success across the system
- Develop system-wide advising practices that align with student learning objectives and promote student success
- Incorporate comprehensive financial planning and counseling into curricular and co-curricular activities
- Incorporate Aggie identity into system-wide support infrastructures such as tutoring, mental-health counseling, healthcare, financial counseling, ethnic programs
- Foster inclusivity, engagement, and access to academic and co-curricular experiences
- Expand options for curricular delivery to include fully online programs, blended programs, and online courses
- Provide training to students, faculty, and staff to create classroom and university environments that promote inclusion and recognize the strength in diversity
- Close the achievement gap
- Encourage involvement in system-wide co-curricular activities such as athletics, student organizations, fine arts, community outreach, Pride Band, intramurals, and ROTC
- Develop robust experiential learning, service-learning, and research experiences that engage students and contribute to the development of essential skills
- Engage university faculty and staff in Aggie Life experiences
- Enhance system-wide internship, co-op, and externship opportunities to meet employment and workforce needs
- Create system-wide career advising programs with shared objectives
- Develop a strategic relationship with New Mexico Workforce Solutions to expand student awareness of New Mexico employment opportunities
- Collaborate with business and industry partnerships to expand career opportunities for international students within and external to the U.S.
- Develop alumni and corporate relationships for student mentoring and job placement
- Foster awareness of post-graduate opportunities for career advancement
- Develop a communications plan that emphasizes strong graduate programs as central to the growth and impact of research, scholarship and creative activity
- Cultivate new and increase existing resources to support graduate students
- Align use of graduate assistantships with the teaching and research mission
- Invest research indirect cost (IDC) to develop and apply incentives to grow graduate enrollment
- Foster and support graduate student enrollment in social sciences, humanities and creative arts
- Promote professional master's degrees as value-added credentials for career advancement
- For all degree programs, create and publish learning objectives and assessment plans
- Revise Vision for the Baccalaureate Experience to align with New Mexico General Education Essential Skills
- Ensure that all academic programs have published degree plans that include pre-requisites and that are easily navigated
- Support efforts to improve student learning through robust professional development
KPIs
1.Enrollment
2.Completion (persistence, graduation rate, degrees awarded, average time)*
3.Net Price
4.Social mobility index (such as CollegeNet)
Leading Indicators
For each level, demographic, market segment, and discipline:
- Upstream enrollment indicators
- Recognized leader in serving diverse students and eliminating achievement gaps
- Scholarships and financial aid awarded
- Midterm grades
- Outcomes (career advancement*, employment rate*, salary*, graduate school*
- Student participation in and use of NMSU non-academic programs and services
- Student participation in career fairs
- Satisfaction survey with advising
- Alumni and industry partner participation in career mentoring
