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At a Glance
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Student Outcomes
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About the Strategic Plan
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Public Responsibility
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Liberal Arts Education
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Long Term Sustainability
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Progress Report
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Diversity & Inclusion:
Assert
and demonstrate our
individual and collective
responsibility to invite,
honor, and learn from our
differences, as preparation
for an increasingly
interconnected world.
Intentionally reflect the
vibrant demographics, in all
its complexity, of our city,
our region, our State, and
beyond.
North Carolina:
Attract, retain, and
graduate North Carolina
students of high academic
promise by eliminating
financial barriers to
participation.
Furnish
North Carolina’s economy
with highly accomplished
thinkers, negotiators,
planners, collaborators, and
problem-solvers.
Assure
that our campus, our region,
and our State understand how
uniquely positioned we are
to define the practical,
life-long value of a liberal
arts education in the 21st
century.
Asheville:
Share
responsibility with the
greater Asheville community
for collaborations on issues
of mutual concern, benefit,
and accomplishment.
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Undergraduate Education:
Serve as the standard of
excellence for public
liberal arts undergraduate
education, emphasizing
interdisciplinary learning
and exceptional
faculty-student mentoring.
Undergraduate Research:
UNC
Asheville will be the
leading undergraduate
research institution for
faculty-mentored,
student-directed
Undergraduate Research.
Assure continual stewardship
of the Undergraduate
Research program and deepen
its focus on societal
concerns.
The
Campus Experience:
Engage
all students in a robust
campus learning experience
based on community
responsibility, learning,
respect, and service.
MISSION
To Serve as the
Standard of
Excellence in Public
Liberal Arts
Undergraduate
Education
VISION
Our way of
practicing the
liberal arts
embraces the
centrality of
learning, rigorous
undergraduate
research &
scholarship,
creative expression,
exemplary teaching,
and an informed
commitment to
serving our
community and to
leading our complex
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Social Sustainability:
Build
a respectful, vibrant,
responsible and inclusive
campus community for
everyone that encourages
academic, civic, and public
engagement.
Invest in
the development and success
of all students, faculty,
and staff members.
Economic Sustainability:
Demonstrate the value of UNC
Asheville's distinctiveness
within the UNC system so
that our optimal size and
liberal arts mission are
acknowledged and rewarded
within the State formula for
funding higher education.
Increase
private funding to assure
the University's ability to
fulfill its commitments to
generations of students and
citizens of North Carolina.
Environmental
Sustainability:
Build on our state-wide
leadership and recognition
for environmental
stewardship through
continued academic inquiry,
energy efficiency,
conservation, and green
building practices. Pursue
creative, respectful,
mission-focused campus
expansion.
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UNC
Asheville Students
develop an inquisitive,
interdisciplinary, engaged
way of life in a vibrant
University
community which is just,
collaborative and
increasingly diverse. |
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STUDENTS DEMONSTRATE:
» an accountability to
their own moral and ethical
principles;
» a responsibility to
individuals, community and
humanity;
» a service orientation,
a sense of adventure and
respect for differences;
» the joys of
entrepreneurship,
enlightened risk-taking and
responsible activism.
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STUDENTS UNDERSTAND:
» the
interconnectedness of all
disciplines, ideas, actions
and individuals;
» the
practice of lively
engagement with others and
the world;
» self,
purpose, connection to the
world, and their potential
for changing it;
» the
liberal arts as a habit of
heart and mind that they can
articulate as a foundation
for their lifelong passion
for learning and the
University that inspired it.
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STUDENTS
DEVELOP:
» the
inspiration, skills and
discipline to identify
individual, community and
global needs; »
critical thinking and
problemsolving skills to
address those needs; »
courage, inclination and
work ethic to develop
solutions, work toward them
and inspire others to do the
same.
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Students identify their
unique University experience
as something to cherish and
support throughout their
lives.
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Architects
About UNC Asheville's
Strategic Plan
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Few enterprises are
more vital to the
viability and
vitality of a
college campus than
the development of a
strategic plan. A
good plan will
identify the campus'
foundational tenets
as well as its
loftiest dreams. It
communicates to the
world 'who we are'
as well as 'who we
aspire to be' and
'how we plan to get
there.' These
statements provide
arguably the most
critical information
that prospective
students, as well as
prospective faculty,
will want to know
before deciding
whether a college or
university is right
for them. To fall
short on either
developing or
communicating these
identity markers is
to risk losing the
students and faculty
who are most likely
to thrive on our
campuses. In this
highly-competitive
market, our campuses
can't afford to get
this one wrong.
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Chancellor Anne
Ponder, from her
chapter on
"Strategic Planning
for Branch Campuses"
in
S. Schuman (Ed.)
(2009).
Branches: Leading
America's Coordinate
Campuses.
American Council on
Education. |
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In fall 2006, UNC
Asheville, under the
leadership of Chancellor
Anne Ponder, embarked on
a campus-wide strategic
planning process. All
members of the staff and
faculty, along with
students, parents,
community leaders and
the members of our four
boards were invited to
small-group discussions
to offer their advice on
"who we aspire to be"
and "how we plan to get
there." Chancellor
Ponder led each session,
assisted by a group of
25 faculty, staff, and
students -- known as
Conveners. Session
participants offered
ideas and insights,
criticism and
complaints, and
thoughtful visions for a
better future.
With all the collected
comments in hand, a
number of the Conveners
began working with the
Chancellor on drafting
the strategic plan goals
in Spring 2007. Over the
next six months, the
group presented a series
of drafts to the campus
community and external
groups, collected
comments, and revised
the draft. In late Fall
2007, responsibility for
the next steps in the
strategic planning
process was transferred
to the University
Planning Council (UPC),
the multi-constituent
group responsible for
campus planning. In the
six months that
followed, the UPC
created detailed
implementation
strategies, including
establishing a timeline,
assigning work groups to
undertake specific
actions, and identifying
ways to measure progress
over the next five
years. The UNC Asheville
Board of Trustees
officially approved the
Strategic Plan in June
2008.
In Fall 2008, 14 work
groups responsible for
specific actions during
2008-09 began their
work. They will report
back to UPC, the campus
and the Board of
Trustees on their
progress at least once
each year.
For
more information on the
strategic planning
process, see the
UNC Asheville Strategic
Plan Document Archive.
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We will
fulfill our
PUBLIC RESPONSIBILITY
by
pursuing the following three
goals: |
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NORTH CAROLINA:
» Attract, retain, and
graduate North Carolina
students of high academic
promise by eliminating
financial barriers to
participation.
» Furnish North Carolina’s
economy with highly
accomplished thinkers,
negotiators, planners,
collaborators, and
problem-solvers.
» Assure that our campus,
our region, and our State
understand how uniquely
positioned we are to define
the practical, life-long
value of a liberal arts
education in the 21st
century.
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GREATER ASHEVILLE:
» Share
responsibility with the
greater Asheville community
for collaborations on issues
of mutual concern, benefit,
and accomplishment.
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DIVERSITY & INCLUSION:
» Assert
and demonstrate our
individual and collective
responsibility to invite,
honor, and learn from our
differences, as preparation
for an increasingly
interconnected world.
» Intentionally reflect the
vibrant demographics, in all
its complexity, of our city,
our region, our State, and
beyond.
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We will
fulfill our
LIBERAL ARTS
mission by
focusing on the following
three goals: |
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UNDERGRADUATE
EDUCATION:
» Serve as the standard
of excellence for public
liberal arts undergraduate
education, emphasizing
interdisciplinary learning
and exceptional
faculty-student mentoring
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CAMPUS
EXPERIENCE:
» Engage
all students in a robust
campus learning experience
based on community
responsibility, learning,
respect, and service.
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UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH:
» UNC
Asheville will be the
leading undergraduate
research institution for
faculty-mentored,
student-directed
Undergraduate Research.
» Assure continual
stewardship of the
Undergraduate Research
program and deepen its focus
on societal concerns.
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We will
assure our
LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY
by
investing in the following
three goals: |
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ECONOMIC SUSTAINABILITY:
» Demonstrate the value
of UNC Asheville's
distinctiveness within the
UNC system so that our
optimal size and liberal
arts mission are
acknowledged and rewarded
within the State formula for
funding higher education.
» Increase private funding
to assure the University's
ability to fulfill its
commitments to generations
of students and citizens of
North Carolina.
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SOCIAL
SUSTAINABILITY:
» Build a
respectful, vibrant,
responsible and inclusive
campus community for
everyone that encourages
academic, civic, and public
engagement.
» Invest in the development
and success of all students,
faculty, and staff members.
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ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY:
» Build
on our state-wide leadership
and recognition for
environmental stewardship
through continued academic
inquiry, energy efficiency,
conservation, and green
building practices.
» Pursue creative,
respectful, mission-focused
campus expansion.
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