Aligning Institutional Strategic and SEM Plans: Indiana State University

1. Aligning Institutional Strategic and SEM Plans:Indiana State University November 12, 2012 Tom Green, Ph.D. Senior Consultant

2. The Pathway to Success is a strategic plan that defines Indiana State University’s goals for the next five years along with the benchmark indicators that will be used to measure our progress. . . While our goals will remain fairly constant, the strategies and initiatives utilized to reach those goals will likely evolve. -Daniel J. Bradley, Introduction to the Pathways to Success Strategic Plan (Fall, 2009)

3. SEM Planning Framework Sustainable Enrollment Outcomes Tactics Strategies Campus Infrastructure Strategic Enrollment Goals Data Collection and Analysis Key Enrollment Indicators Institutional Strategic Plan

4. SEM Process Framework Performed by Process steps Align institutional strategic plan with broad enrollment targets and desired mix of students Executive leadership, SEM Steering Committee Data and information gathering and assessment: Internal culture/ environment, student enrollment behaviors and scan of external environment Smaller group of staff and faculty adept at economics and data use Additional requests, clarifying questions Use data and information results to establish focused goals each for recruitment, retention, service, etc., and enrollment projection models Goals recommended by SEM Recruitment and Retention Councils; models developed by Data Team Changes to goals Approve strategic goals and enrollment projection models Executive leadership, SEM Steering Committee New or revised goals SEM councils and sub-committees Develop action steps, accountability, and metrics Appropriate staff and faculty departments Implement action steps Mid-course adjustments • Monitor progress, • Report results to campus and executive leadership SEM Steering Committee, Chief Enrollment Officer

5. SEM Plan Retention/Completion Goals • To enhance what is done to better educate and prepare new students and their families prior to the student enrolling in the fall. • To create a strong first-year experience by way of the University College and allied programming to enhance freshmen persistence and that establishes a pathway to their success. • To enhance student persistence to graduation by building a culture that is more intensively focused on effective academic and social engagement.

6. ISU’s Strategic Plan: Goal One • Achieve Greater Impact on Student Success Through Residential Life • Further develop cooperative programs with Ivy Tech • Create a Unified Undergraduate Student Success Program • Create Sycamore Express One-Stop Shops • Develop Programs for the Parents and Families of Students

7. ISU’s Strategic Plan: Goal One • Increase Early Outreach to Students in Region • Enhance Graduate Education at ISU • Enhance the Gathering and Use of Information to Advance ISU’s Strategic Priorities • Create a Comprehensive Wellness Program • Develop a Comprehensive Retention Program for African American Cultural Center to Assist Both Students and Parents

8. Guiding questions for our discussion • Which of the Goal One initiatives are no longer as relevant as when they were initially developed? • Accomplished and self-sustaining/institutionalized • Much harder to accomplish that imagined • Changes in personnel/champions • Other reasons? • Which initiatives map to SEM plan goals? • What happens to initiatives that are not mapped?

9. Mapping Goal one initiatives SEM Plan goals • Achieve Greater Impact on Student Success Through Residential Life (2, some 3) • Further develop cooperative programs with Ivy Tech (1,3) • Create a Unified Undergraduate Student Success Program (2, some 3, less 1) • Create Sycamore Express One-Stop Shops (2,3, some 1) • Develop Programs for the Parents and Families of Students (2,3, some 1) • Increase Early Outreach to Students in Region (1) • Enhance Graduate Education at ISU (?, 1 if expanded) • Enhance the Gathering and Use of Information to Advance ISU’s Strategic Priorities (2,3, some 1) • Create a Comprehensive Wellness Program (2,3, a little with 1) • Develop a Comprehensive Retention Program for African American Cultural Center to Assist Both Students and Parents (2, some 3) • Pre-college • First-year/university college • Completion