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May 7, 2025·StrategicPlan
Board
Mount Mercy University Strategic Plan
Mount Mercy University's strategic plan is centered on lifelong learning and the education of the whole person, emphasizing Catholic Mercy values, leadership development, and service opportunities. The plan focuses on integrating these values into all disciplines, enhancing graduate and adult programs, and providing meaningful support for student engagement in leadership, service, and travel. It also aims to promote diversity, equity, and inclusivity, cultivate wellness and mental health, and strengthen connections with the Catholic community through partnerships and ethical formation.
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The strategic plan focuses on increasing traditional undergraduate enrollment to 1,171, attracting 375 new first-year and transfer students, and improving student retention rates across sophomore, junior, and senior years, targeting 80%, 85%, and 90% respectively. It also aims to boost graduate and adult credit hours to 13,896 and net tuition revenue per traditional student to $15,000. Additional goals include achieving a balanced budget, creating a campus master plan and branding campaign, initiating a capital campaign, developing HR plans for compensation and diversity, reviewing the curriculum for Catholic Mercy value integration, and revising the core curriculum.
Jan 1, 2023·StrategicPlan
Board
Mount Mercy University Strategic Plan 2023-2028
The strategic plan for Mount Mercy University focuses on empowering students through values-based education, becoming a leading nursing and health university in Iowa, and meeting diverse student career goals. It aims to provide a life-changing student experience by investing in student passions, ensuring inclusivity, and maximizing facilities and technology. The plan also emphasizes strengthening community partnerships, embodying Catholic Mercy values, and becoming a trusted resource for solutions, while ensuring financial wellness, being a forward-thinking employer, and cultivating a philanthropic culture for a stronger future.
Sep 5, 2025·StrategicPlan
Board
Mount Mercy University Mission Statement
Mount Mercy University's mission is to provide student-focused education rooted in the spirit of the Sisters of Mercy, welcoming individuals of all beliefs. The university aims to achieve excellence through reflective judgment, strategic communication, service to the common good, and promotion of purposeful living. It values lifelong learning, the pursuit of truth and dignity, commitment to students, justice, gratitude, hospitality, and service, emphasizing a Catholic Mercy perspective, academic freedom, and diversity, equity, and inclusivity.
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