Strategic Goals
INSTITUTIONAL GOALS
To fulfill the mission of Asbury University, the following Institutional Goals provide the framework for accomplishing the charge of "academic excellence and spiritual vitality." The Institutional Goals encompass the intended outcomes for students (Student Outcome Goals) and the capacity expectations (Institutional Capacity Goals) for all services supporting the university's mission.
STUDENT OUTCOME GOALS
1. ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE - Students will demonstrate academic excellence through specified learning experiences.
2. SPIRITUAL VITALITY - Students will reflect spiritual vitality.
3. LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE - Students will demonstrate leadership skills through academic disciplines or experiential learning and will engage in service.
4. HEALTH AND WELLNESS - Students will reflect physical and emotional wellness.
5. CROSS-CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION - Students will reflect cultural sensitivity and awareness.
INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY GOALS
6. VITAL CHRISTIAN ENVIRONMENT -- Asbury University will be a pervasively Christian institution, built upon a Wesleyan Holiness commitment, which promotes the integration of faith, learning and living.
7. HIGH-QUALITY PROGRAMS - Asbury University will promote academic excellence and spiritual vitality by offering high quality programs.
8. EXPANDING MISSIONAL INFLUENCE - Asbury University will expand its missional influence in the world by enhancing our image within the marketplace, increasing enrollment across traditional and nontraditional constituencies, and cultivating an increasingly broad constituency.
9. MISSION-DRIVEN RESOURCING - Asbury University will provide sufficient resources and financial flexibility to adequately support its academic and spiritual mission, purposes and programs.
INSTITUTIONAL GOALS
PART I: STUDENT OUTCOME GOALS
STUDENT GOAL 1 ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
Students will demonstrate academic excellence through specified learning experiences.
STRATEGIC TARGET SG1.1: Enhance academic excellence in the liberal arts.
STRATEGIC TARGET SG1.2: Enhance academic excellence in the disciplines.
STRATEGIC TARGET SG1.3: Enhance academic excellence in the ACHIEVE program.
STRATEGIC TARGET SG 1.4: Enhance academic excellence in the Graduate Education Program.
STRATEGIC TARGET SG 1.5: Enhance aesthetic interest and development.
STUDENT GOAL 2 SPIRITUAL VITALITY
Students will reflect spiritual vitality.
STRATEGIC TARGET SG2.1: Reflect student growth in spiritual vitality for traditional students.
STRATEGIC TARGET SG2.2: Participate in spiritual life and chapel activities for traditional students.
STUDENT GOAL 3 LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE
Students will demonstrate leadership skills through academic disciplines or experiential learning and will engage in service.
STRATEGIC TARGET SG3.1: Enhance leadership opportunities for students
STRATEGIC TARGET SG3.2: Enhance service opportunities for students.
STUDENT GOAL 4 HEALTH AND WELLNESS
Students will reflect physical and emotional wellness.
STRATEGIC TARGET SG4.1: Demonstrate traditional students' knowledge of and engagement in physical fitness and wellness.
STRATEGIC TARGET SG4.2: Demonstrate traditional students' awareness of and participation in emotional and nutritional wellness.
STUDENT GOAL 5 CROSS-CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING AND APPRECIATION
Students will reflect cultural sensitivity and awareness.
Strategic Target SG5.1: Demonstrate that students have been exposed to cultures other than their own.
PART II: INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY GOALS
(Supporting student goals)
CAPACITY GOAL 6 VITAL CHRISTIAN ENVIRONMENT
Asbury University will be a pervasively Christian institution, built upon a Wesleyan Holiness commitment, which promotes the integration of faith, learning and living.
STRATEGIC TARGET CG6.1: Affirm our Wesleyan Holiness theological position.
STRATEGIC TARGET CG6.2: Foster a campus-wide culture of servant leadership.
STRATEGIC TARGET CG6.3: Maintain the vitality of chapel.
STRATEGIC TARGET CG6.4: Provide programs for student spiritual transformation.
STRATEGIC TARGET CG6.5: Employ personnel whose beliefs are consistent with the institutional mission.
STRATEGIC TARGET CG6.6: Integrate faith into the holistic educational process within and outside of the classroom.
STRATEGIC TARGET CG6.7: Provide opportunities for members of the campus community (including students, faculty and staff) to provide input on administrative policies.
CAPACITY GOAL 7 HIGH-QUALITY PROGRAMS
Asbury University will promote academic excellence and spiritual vitality by offering high quality programs.
STRATEGIC TARGET CG7.1: Enable academic excellence across the curriculum.
STRATEGIC TARGET CG7.2: Provide systems and facilities to promote academic excellence and spiritual vitality.
STRATEGIC TARGET CG7.3: Provide professional development activities for all personnel.
STRATEGIC TARGET CG7.4: Provide support services to promote academic excellence.
STRATEGIC TARGET CG7.5: Provide opportunities to promote spiritual vitality.
STRATEGIC TARGET CG7.6: Provide opportunities to promote healthy social interaction among the campus community.
STRATEGIC TARGET CG7.7: Provide opportunities to promote leadership and service.
STRATEGIC TARGET CG7.8: Provide opportunities to promote health and wellness.
CAPACITY GOAL 8 EXPANDING MISSIONAL INFLUENCE
Asbury University will expand its missional influence in the world by enhancing our image within the marketplace, increasing enrollment across traditional and nontraditional constituencies, and cultivating an increasingly broad constituency.
STRATEGIC TARGET CG8.1: Enhance our image within the marketplace
STRATEGIC TARGET CG8.2: Increase enrollment across traditional and nontraditional constituencies
STRATEGIC TARGET CG8.3: Cultivate an increasingly-broad constituency
STRATEGIC TARGET CG8.4: Provide opportunities to develop students' awareness and competencies for service to the global community.
STRATEGIC TARGET CG8.5: Create a culture that seeks and encourages new opportunities for the university.
CAPACITY GOAL 9 MISSION-DRIVEN RESOURCING
Asbury University will provide sufficient resources and financial flexibility to adequately support its academic and spiritual mission, purposes and programs.
STRATEGIC TARGET CG9.1: Enhance financial security through an expanded institutional advancement program.
STRATEGIC TARGET CG9.2: Allocate and manage available resources efficiently.
STRATEGIC TARGET CG9.3: Provide physical plant facilities and equipment to support the institutional mission of academic excellence and spiritual vitality.
STRATEGIC TARGET CG9.4: Provide human resources necessary to support the institutional mission.
