Sheila Dennis

The strategic plan, approved in February 2021, outlines the university's direction from 2021 to 2026. It is structured around four key themes: Identity and Mission, Focus on Growth, Innovations for Teaching and Learning, and Support for Learning. The plan aims to foster a shared understanding of liberal arts education, enhance student recruitment and success, ensure financial stability, provide high-quality academic programs, develop faculty, cultivate student-athletes, and maintain robust campus infrastructure.

This strategic plan for the University of Montevallo serves as a roadmap to provide an affordable, high-quality, liberal arts-focused public higher education experience. It addresses immediate priorities such as navigating the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuring fidelity in demographic data management. The plan is organized around four strategic themes: Identity and Mission, Focus on Growth, Innovations for Teaching and Learning, and Support for Learning. Its vision is to foster intellectual and personal growth, prepare students for meaningful employment, and promote responsible citizenship within a learner-centered 21st-century education.

This document outlines the 2021-2022 strategic plan highlights for the University of Montevallo. Key areas of focus include managing COVID-19 protocols, advancing diversity and social justice initiatives, and strengthening the university's identity and mission through liberal arts education and sustainability. The plan also prioritizes institutional growth by enhancing student recruitment, retention, and graduation rates, alongside implementing a strategic budget model. Furthermore, it emphasizes innovations in teaching and learning through new academic programs and faculty development, and supports learning by fostering student-athlete success, maintaining campus infrastructure, and promoting staff development.

This document, the 2023-2024 Strategic Plan Highlights for the University of Montevallo, outlines progress across four key strategic themes. These themes include: Identity and Mission, focusing on liberal arts education and sustainability; Focus on Growth, addressing recruitment, enrollment, retention, new academic programs, and budget transparency; Innovation for Teaching and Learning, supporting online education, low-cost textbooks, and faculty development; and Support for Learning, encompassing athletic program expansion, facility maintenance, and staff compensation. The plan also emphasizes fidelity in demographic data management and reporting.

The strategic plan for the University of Montevallo outlines key themes and goals to guide its future direction. These themes include Diversity and Social Justice, Identity and Mission, Focus on Growth, Innovations for Teaching and Learning, and Support for Learning. The plan aims to enhance minority enrollment and staff diversity, define liberal arts education, foster sustainability, improve student recruitment and retention, develop new academic programs, ensure financial viability, advance teaching technology and resources, expand experiential learning, maintain qualified faculty, upgrade facilities, and support staff development and compensation.