Shane L. Stacey

This progress report details the advancements in the Utica University re-envisioning initiative, focusing on three strategic objectives. Key areas of progress include developing an academic portfolio that is responsive to regional and national employer needs and student interests, building a comprehensive career exploration, readiness, and support operation for students and alumni, and completing structural financial changes necessary to sustain and grow the institution, encompassing cost reductions, faculty realignments, and operational efficiencies.

The 2024-2025 Institutional Effectiveness Plan for Utica University supports the institution's mission and the President's vision to create a sustainable institution. It focuses on comprehensive structural changes in three key areas: academic profile and planning (APP), strategic enrollment and marketing (SEM), and institutional financial structure (IFS). The plan includes developing a student success-focused approach to service, a strategic academic plan, a strategic enrollment and marketing plan, and achieving a sustainable financial model that supports institutional growth.

Utica University's 2024-2025 Institutional Effectiveness Plan focuses on creating a sustainable institution through improvements in academic profile and planning, strategic enrollment and marketing, and institutional financial structure. The plan outlines operational goals to develop a student success-focused approach to services, create strategic academic and enrollment/marketing plans, and achieve a sustainable financial model. Specific objectives, deliverables, and responsible parties are detailed for each operational goal, covering areas such as mission statement revisions, action plans to address student success inequities and retention recommendations, improvements to information access, assessment of additional locations and third-party providers, identification of partnership opportunities, evaluation of academic offerings, enhancement of marketing processes, analysis of enrollment data, evaluation of athletic program ROI, implementation of financial best practices, optimization of IT systems, revision of capital expense policies, and evaluation of staffing and facility utilization.

Utica University's 2024-2025 Institutional Effectiveness Plan focuses on creating a sustainable institution through structural changes in academic profile and planning, strategic enrollment and marketing, and institutional financial structure. Key goals include developing a student success-focused approach to service, creating a strategic academic plan, developing a strategic enrollment and marketing plan, and achieving a sustainable financial model. The plan addresses issues such as improving student retention, enhancing access to information and resources, addressing inequities impacting student success, assessing the viability of additional locations, evaluating third-party providers, identifying partnership opportunities, evaluating academic offerings, improving internal marketing processes, analyzing enrollment data, evaluating the return on investment of athletic programs, implementing best practices for financial management, maximizing the functionality of IT systems, and revising capital expense policies.