Harry Herbert

This document provides an update on the Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) planning process for the University of Minnesota Morris, based on its Five Year Enrollment Plan. The plan's draft goals focus on strategically raising awareness, expanding recruitment markets, providing clear pathways for students, improving transition support, deepening the campus-wide culture of student success, ensuring equitable access and opportunity for diverse backgrounds, increasing timely degree attainment, and creating clear pathways for students with prior credit. Key objectives include achieving a 1,700 degree-seeking student headcount by fall 2025, and increasing first-to-second-year retention rates and four-year and six-year graduation rates annually through fall 2025.

The University of Minnesota Morris's strategic vision aims to be a national leader in collaborative and innovative 21st-century liberal arts education. The plan is centered around four commitments: public liberal arts for the future, excellence for everyone, vital campus community and engaging with the region, state, and beyond. It focuses on preparing students to solve complex problems, supporting faculty and student research, improving campus climate, enhancing educational opportunities for diverse students, ensuring sustainability, and strengthening community engagement.