Strategic Plan
Excellence in Teaching and Learning
- Recruit and graduate a diverse, talented student body with potential for success
- Recruit and retain outstanding faculty who enrich the diversity of teaching and scholarship
- Increase student success through high impact teaching, experiential learning, advising and career preparedness
- Improve student experiences to enhance learning outcomes and engagement
- Enhance curriculum to respond to student needs and changing market demands
Unique University Assets and Experiences
- Leverage the location in Jersey City and the greater metropolitan area
- Maximize and celebrate diversity to create a truly inclusive campus culture
- Prepare students for purposeful lives through service, leadership and wellness
- Increase engagement for all students, with a focus on magis
- Promote Jesuit values and spirituality
- Build a winning athletic program with an enthusiastic University spirit
Effective Resources to Support Student Success
- Improve fiscal management and conditions
- Grow donor base, leadership giving, volunteerism and engagement through effective outreach
- Build the University’s reputation, brand and market share
- Manage and develop effective human, capital and technology resources
- Recognize and continue to improve our distinctive “culture of care”
- Improve campus facilities to create an environment that supports educational excellence
Global Knowledge and Engagement
- Enhance curricular and co-curricular experiences to prepare students with intercultural skills
- Establish an effective organizational structure to support globalization efforts
- Encourage faculty/staff to globalize research, instruction and outreach
- Intensify recruitment of international faculty and students to the campus
- Expand international study opportunities for faculty and students to be immersed in other
- countries and cultures
Prominent Community Partnerships
- Promote greater student engagement in the external community
- Expand opportunities to bring pre-college students, adults and community organizations to campus
- Build a strategic plan for engagement with corporate/community/educational organizations
- Be a catalyst for urban innovation and development