Tiffany Cylar

The ASCEND 2030 Strategic Plan, a comprehensive five-year roadmap for Stillman College, aims for excellence in education, student success, infrastructure development, and community engagement. Approved in 2025, the plan focuses on six key priorities: Academic excellence, Student success, Cybersecurity, Engagement, Name recognition, and Destination Stillman. These priorities guide the institution in enhancing its reputation, strengthening partnerships, and optimizing resources to ensure long-term sustainability and foster innovation.

The 2025-2030 Strategic Plan: ASCEND focuses on academic excellence, student success, cybersecurity, engagement, name recognition and destination Stillman. It aims to strengthen advising, provide holistic student support, elevate academic program visibility, maintain partnerships, and improve faculty and staff development. The plan emphasizes careful resource stewardship and continued stakeholder engagement to achieve these goals.

The 2017-2022 Strategic Plan for Stillman College, themed "RAMP UP Stillman," focuses on retaining, advancing, measuring, and placing students and programs to achieve academic excellence. The plan outlines nine strategic goals: providing quality customer service; developing seamless transitions for students from high school to graduate school; implementing student learning outcome-based teaching and learning; designing and implementing program evaluations with continuous quality enhancement; implementing effective faculty and staff development; developing partnerships to promote student life and economic development; implementing technology to enhance learning and support; enhancing Stillman's perception through branding; and expanding online education programs. The plan uses a RAMP framework (Retain, Advance, Measure, Place) to guide its initiatives and includes specific, measurable targets for each year. The overall vision is to transform Stillman into a premier institution for knowledge creation and transfer.