Jacksonville University

This document provides an update on the progress and strategic direction of Jacksonville University. Key strategic initiatives include establishing Florida's first four-year medical school in partnership with LECOM, launching the Jacksonville University College of Law, and expanding accelerated nursing programs. The university has also opened a newly renovated STEAM Institute focusing on Arts, Sciences, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, including Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Virtual Reality, Animation, Product Engineering, and Cyber Forensics. The future strategy involves expanding the regional footprint, developing relevant degree programs, breaking ground on the medical school, and fostering strategic partnerships in various fields such as Aviation, Engineering, Cyber Security, Marine Science, and Public Health, with a vision to achieve significant accomplishments in the next five years.

This strategic plan outlines Jacksonville University's direction to empower learners and transform futures. The plan is structured around five strategic pillars: providing an extraordinary academic experience, elevating student experience and success, building and fostering strong partnerships and communities, transforming financial processes and models, and creating a culture of operational excellence. The overarching vision is for the university to be a national leader at the intersection of practical knowledge, applied learning, and new technologies, thereby reimagining education for the future and preparing students to make a positive impact in an ever-evolving world.

The Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program Strategic Plan for 2019-2025 focuses on achieving full accreditation by CACREP, enhancing training opportunities for faculty and students in Marriage and Family Therapy, and expanding the CMHC program. Key goals include developing certificate programs, securing grant funding for a community mental health counseling clinic, expanding the CMHC program to Palm Coast, recruiting faculty to maintain the CACREP faculty-to-student ratio, establishing clinical partnerships, sustaining enrollments, integrating faculty and student clinicians, creating a bridge program for undergraduates, offering training in mental health professional entrepreneurship, and exploring international training opportunities.

The strategic plan outlines a phased approach involving assessment, visioning, and implementation. The assessment phase includes benchmarking, competitive analysis, surveys, interviews, and a prioritized SWOT analysis. The visioning phase focuses on drafting the strategy, which includes the mission, values, vision, pillars, priorities, and key metrics. The implementation phase involves creating an implementation plan with key objectives, supporting metrics, and directional financials.

The strategic plan for Jacksonville University focuses on enhancing the holistic student experience, strengthening enrollment, retention, and graduation rates, and cultivating a culture of quality and high performance across campus. It aims to fortify academic programs by integrating liberal arts and sciences, advance faculty and staff excellence, deliver robust infrastructure, embrace diversity and inclusion, and engage the community through impactful partnerships. The plan prioritizes student wellness, academic innovation, community-centered service, and data-informed decision-making to improve efficacy and efficiency across the university.