Strategic Plan
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PILLAR 1: ACADEMIC AND CO-CURRICULAR EXCELLENCE
GOAL: South Dakota Mines is the premier STEM institution of
choice for students seeking a challenging, engaging, relevant, and supportive
academic experience where they are immersed in world-class learning
opportunities and guided by talented and renowned faculty.
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Objective 1.1: Offer distinctive academic programs that are responsive to industry needs and prepare graduates to solve global challenges and serve as leaders in an increasingly competitive interconnected world.
- Objective 1.2: Invest in faculty through professional development opportunities to enhance their teaching, research, and service endeavors.
- Objective 1.3: Offer co-curricular programming that promotes leadership development, civic engagement, global awareness, creative thinking, and innovative problem-solving.
PILLAR 2: CAMPUS CULTURE
GOAL: Strive to make our campus a place where students, faculty,
and staff thrive in an inclusive, equitable, sustainable, and creative
environment.
- Objective 2.1: Foster a safe, sustainable, and healthy environment.
- Objective 2.2: Promote a work-life balance that encompasses a universal commitment to institutional success and individual well-being.
- Objective 2.3: Build a sense of community that cultivates collaboration, inclusion, and innovation.
- Objective 2.4: Promote a culture of excellence and efficiency through flexible and transparent business processes.
- Objective 2.5: Ensure the campus community is well informed through open and transparent communications.
PILLAR 3: PROMOTION AND
ADVANCEMENT
GOAL: Increase awareness of the university by promoting
achievements of our students, faculty, staff, and alumni, and develop an
understanding of university needs by deepening relationships with alumni,
industry, and government leaders.
- Objective 3.1: Develop a marketing and communications strategy
among university, athletics, the Hardrock Club, and CARA to ensure that consistent
information is shared and communicated in a manner that provides greatest
impact.
- Objective 3.2: Increase awareness and recognition of student
activities and achievements in academics, athletics, and co-curricular
programs.
- Objective 3.3: Create stronger connections with community, industry, and state leaders to increase awareness of the university’s impact.
- Objective 3.4: Advance university support through alumni and industry engagement.
PILLAR 4: ENROLLMENT AND
SUCCESS
GOAL: Elevate awareness of South Dakota Mines as a premier STEM
institution that provides a quality and affordable undergraduate and graduate education.
- Objective 4.1: Increase undergraduate student enrollment.
- Objective 4.2: Engage all audiences regarding opportunities and
support available to them.
- Objective 4.3: Increase graduate student enrollment and promote
graduate student success.
- Objective 4.4: Increase
student retention and graduation rates through Opportunity for All initiatives.
- Objective 4.5: Provide services and resources for post-graduate
success.
PILLAR 5: RESEARCH AND
INNOVATION
GOAL: Promote an innovative and research-driven culture that
discovers knowledge and creates wide-ranging partnerships that benefit society
through economic growth.
- Objective 5.1: Obtain a Doctoral Research University Carnegie
classification.
- Objective 5.2: Expand the research enterprise.
- Objective 5.3: Increase knowledge and skills in research
development including proposal preparation.
- Objective 5.4: Increase the awareness and involvement of undergraduates
in research.
- Objective 5.5: Develop state-of-the-art facilities and
information technology that bolster the research, instructional, and communication
needs of the campus community.
- Objective 5.6: Reduce the administrative burden on grants to
allow faculty to focus on research.
- Objective 5.7: Encourage entrepreneurial pursuits related to
intellectual property.
METRICS
Primary Measures of Success:
- Total student enrollment (Goal: 2,850 Headcount/2,350 FTE)
- Six-year graduation rate:
- Undergraduate students (Goal: 65%)
- PhD students (Goal: 80%)
- Retention rate: Freshmen to sophomore (Goal: 80%)
- Philanthropic support, annual (Goal: $25M)
- Research expenditures, annual (Goal: $20M/year)
- Invention disclosures, annual (Goal: 15)
- Technology licenses, annual (Goal: 3)