Strategic Plan: New Horizons 2020

New Horizons 2020 - Strategic Plan Summary

Goal 1: By 2020, New first-time, transfer and graduate student enrollment is increased and diversified consistent with Hilbert College’s mission.

Focus enrollment efforts on “Recruiting a Hilbert College Graduate”.
Develop and implement financial aid and scholarship strategies to increase enrollment.
Explore new student recruitment markets.

Goal 2: Hilbert is committed to strengthening its Catholic and Franciscan identity

by creating a culture of diversity, inclusion, and equity.

Integrate Catholic Social Teaching more fully and explicitly into Hilbert’s educational programs for students, faculty, and staff.
Consistent with Catholic Social Teaching, increase campus diversity and foster college-wide accountability to inclusion and equity.

Goal 3: Hilbert College students will graduate from academic programs characterized by best practices in delivery, assessment, and strong student support systems.

Develop new academic programs, while strengthening and enhancing current ones to align with enrollment goals and produce successful student outcomes.
Expand students’ engagement in high impact practices that align with the Hilbert Blueprint including internships and experiential learning opportunities.
Develop and use diagnostics tools to assess student support systems to strengthen academic success and retention.

Goal 4: Our budget is aligned with the institution’s mission and values in order to provide the physical and financial resources to meet the academic, social, recreational, and competitive needs of our students.

Identify and explore the feasibility to fund capital projects and new scholarships as prioritized by Trustees; including the campus center, on-campus athletic facilities, academic spaces to support new programs, and both current and endowed scholarships.
Identify and develop new non-enrollment-based revenue streams, including grants, corporate sponsors, alumni giving, and other new revenue streams.

Goal 5: An integrated marketing and communication program that enhances and protects Hilbert College’s reputation, advances and strengthens the College’s brand, encourages community engagement, and reinforces the College’s relevance in the lives of key target audiences, including current and prospective students, alumni, donors, friends, and faculty and staff.

Develop, execute and assess College Marketing/Communications operational structures and processes in alignment with College’s strategic goals.
Develop, execute and assess integrated strategic marketing and communications program, both internal and external, that strengthens and promotes Hilbert’s brand identity as a Catholic Franciscan College.
Develop an integrated marketing and communications program that helps achieve the College’s overall target enrollment for a diverse student body and student success that includes an emphasis on program outcomes.

Goal 6: Professional development opportunities are implemented to support innovative practices of faculty and staff consistent with the changing landscape in higher education.

Identify strategies to increase collaboration and communication among faculty, staff, and administration.
Expand diversity among the Board of Trustees, administration, faculty and staff.

Goal 7: Hilbert College has a comprehensive, shared mapping system of all its community-based relationships that serves as a rich resource for each academic department, fosters greater campus-wide collaborations, and supports college initiatives.

Build relationships with new strategic partners in areas where we have unmet needs.
Develop policies and protocols to guide and manage our strategic partnerships.