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Aug 28, 2023·StrategicPlan
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Pillar College Strategic Plan 2023
Pillar College's strategic plan focuses on enhancing the student experience, improving employee communications, increasing non-tuition revenue, establishing brand awareness, and developing an institutional roadmap. Specific initiatives include creating video tutorials and a chatbot to improve student support, conducting regular pulse surveys, organizing student events, and expanding fundraising efforts through various avenues such as grants, sponsorships, and alumni engagement. The plan also aims to strengthen the college's brand awareness through alliances, vendor events, and a YouTube channel. The overall goal is to expand and improve services to students, the church, and society, building upon the existing OASIS strategic plan (Organizational Strength, Academic Excellence, Student Focus, Inspirational Environment, Sustainable Growth).
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Pillar College's 2023 strategic plan, themed "Innovate and Grow 2023," focuses on four key pillars: expanding financial and operational infrastructure, ensuring professional excellence in academics and operations, developing innovative programs and delivery systems, and emphasizing the Christian community through spiritual formation. Specific goals include increasing non-tuition revenue, growing enrollment, launching new instructional sites, expanding international partnerships, developing additional business income streams, increasing donor and church partner support, enhancing program advisory committees, improving curriculum, implementing grading rubrics, pursuing accreditation, creating online orientations, launching new online and in-person programs, developing new certificate programs, launching a 2nd Chance Pell program, implementing a BEST recruitment initiative, and submitting a program proposal for an MPA degree. The plan also emphasizes building community through student leadership development, community service projects, chapels, community events, and wellness talks.
Jan 1, 2022·StrategicPlan
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Pillar College Strategic Plan 2022
Pillar College's fiscal year 2022 strategic plan, themed "Stabilize, Innovate, and Grow through Windmills of Change," focuses on strengthening its financial and operational infrastructure, ensuring academic excellence, developing innovative programs, and emphasizing its Christian community. Key initiatives include expanding financial literacy among students, increasing non-tuition revenue, growing enrollment, activating a new Jersey City site, and developing additional business income streams. Academically, the plan emphasizes faculty training in online modalities, curriculum improvement through program advisory committees, consistent grading standards, and preparation for accreditation. To enhance student support and enrollment, the plan includes developing online orientations, implementing a career development platform, using student feedback for improvement, and launching new programs and digital badges. Finally, the plan prioritizes spiritual formation through cohort communities, student retreats, chapels, community events, and wellness talks.
Jan 1, 2021·StrategicPlan
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Pillar College Strategic Plan 2021
Pillar College's strategic plan for fiscal year 2021, themed "Expand and Innovate," focuses on four key areas: expanding financial support (increasing revenue, adding donors, and exploring new sites), ensuring professional excellence in academics and operations (improving student support, curricula, and institutional health), developing innovative programs and delivery systems (creating incubator programs, enhancing customer service, and improving technology infrastructure), and emphasizing Christian community with a focus on spiritual formation (developing online prayer communities, servant leadership projects, and spiritual formation assessment tools). The plan aims to improve student literacy scores, grow enrollment, and develop new academic programs and student clubs.
Extracted from official board minutes, strategic plans, and video transcripts.
