Bryant College Board of Trustees

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Bryant CollegePresidents Advisory
CouncilStrategic Planning Update Thursday,
November 21, 2002
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Vision 2010
2005 Goals
Annual Performance Plan
Institutional Benchmarks
Operational Objectives
Annual Strategic Goals
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Vision 2010
Vision for our Undergraduate Programs
Bryant will be the school of choice for domestic
and international undergraduates who seek a
small-college educational experience that
prepares them for successful and rewarding
professional careers
Vision for our Graduate Programs
Bryant will be the regional school of choice and
will be recognized for professional programs
offered through a federation of global strategic
partners.
Vision for our Executive and Business Outreach
Programs
Bryant will be the home of the regions premier
executive education center and will be regarded
as the regions most valuable resource for
domestic and international business support
services
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What Will It Take to Realize this
Vision?Undergraduate

• Bryant must educate the whole person in order to
  transform good students into accomplished
  leaders.
• We must work with each student to develop an
  individual plan which will enable him or her to
  acquire the knowledge and the qualities of
  character that are required for success over the
  course of a lifetime.
• We must continue to provide our graduates
  opportunities throughout their careers for
  continuing professional growth and development.

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What Will It Take to Realize this
Vision?Graduate Executive

• We must understand and be responsive to the
  distinctive needs of the professionals we serve
  through our graduate and executive programs.
• We must offer our programs in settings which are
  in keeping with the executive/ professional
  standing of our clients.

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Vision 2010
2005 Goals
Annual Performance Plan
Institutional Benchmarks
Operational Objectives
Annual Strategic Goals
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How will we get there? 2005 Goals

• Four Areas of Strategic Focus
• Enhancing Academic Quality
• Building a Student-Centered Learning Community
• Fostering Technological Innovation
• Promoting Globalization and Diversity

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2005 Strategic Goals Academic Quality

• Bryant will achieve an average academic
  reputation score of 3.3 in the
• US News World Report survey.

Bryant will achieve higher mean scores than its
principal competitors on the Admitted Student
Questionnaire (ASQ) for each of the following
items Academic Reputation, Quality of Academic
Facilities, and Reputation of College with
Potential Employers. It will also rank more
highly than its principal competitors on the
following elements of image Prestigious,
Selective, Challenging, and Highly Respected.
We will lower our acceptance rate to 55 as a
result of increased applications and higher
number of early actions. A significant number of
these new students will be attracted to our new
programs, especially Communication and Applied
Psychology. As these programs mature we will
consider movement toward a university model.
Bryant College will have an Executive Development
Center that delivers high-end executive
programs, reaching outside our immediate
geographic area to become the regions supplier
of choice for such programs. The Colleges
business outreach programs will make a
significant, positive contribution to net
revenues
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2005 Strategic Goals Student-Centered Leaning
Community

• Bryant will be recognized by a national
  foundation for our work in developing the skills
  and qualities of character that students need to
  be successful.

Bryant will create an integrated system
(incorporating data bases and organizational
processes) to track and assess the progress of
each and every student. This system will draw
upon and bring together such initiative the
portal, e-portfolios, faculty advising, Banner,
and Blackboard.
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2005 Strategic Goals Technological Innovation

• Every student will be equipped with a
  state-of-the-art laptop that they will use to
  master a suite of important personal productivity
  programs. Their laptops will also connect them
  to a sophisticated educational system that will
  extend the learning experience far beyond the
  classroom. In addition, the laptop will enable
  students to more readily interface with the
  Colleges administrative and business systems,
  thereby improving the level and quality of the
  services these systems provide. Finally, we will
  also expand the technological capabilities of
  faculty by increasing programming available
  through the Faculty Development Center.

Students will be able to recognize ethical issues
related to technology and we will foster in them
norms and expectations that will lead to ethical
conduct in the use of technology as a tool of
daily life.
We will develop partnerships with top technology
providers that yield contributions of at least
500,000 per year in cash and in-kind
contributions.
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• 2005 Strategic Goals
• Globalization Diversity

• We will increase our recruitment of women,
  minority, and international students and will
  increase the diversity of faculty and staff
  incrementally so that all students will have the
  opportunity to learn from and interact with
  individuals from the different races, cultures,
  and backgrounds.

New learning opportunities will be available to
all students, faculty, and staff to foster
discussion and develop support for the Colleges
commitment to diversity and to engage them in
diversity-related developmental and assessment
activities to foster a more supportive,
respectful and inclusive learning community.
The undergraduate curriculum will be enhanced
through the inclusion of multicultural
perspectives and by increasing discussions/focus
on globalization and diversity-related topics in
appropriate classes. The Graduate School will
create a federation of at least three (3) global
partners to present innovative new programs via
internet technology and through student exchanges
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Vision 2010
2005 Goals
Annual Performance Plan
Institutional Benchmarks
Operational Objectives
Annual Strategic Goals
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Institutional Benchmarks
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Operational Objectives
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Annual Strategic Goals
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Strategic Goals Academic Affairs 2002-2003

• Academic Quality
• Achieve AACSB Reaccreditation

Student-Centered Learning Community Include
development of student portfolios as part of the
Faculty Advising program. Increase the level of
faculty participation.
Technological Innovation Oversee and
allocate funds for faculty technology initiatives
Globalization Diversity Expand
initiatives to increase faculty diversity
Enhance the breadth of international curricular
offerings
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Strategic Goals Business Affairs 2002-2003

• Academic Quality
• Implement a financial planning process to
  facilitate strategic resource allocations for new
  academic programs and initiatives.

Student-Centered Learning Community Develop
a facilities assessment program for all
instructional, support and residence hall space
to ensure preservation, renewal and design
functionality for enhanced student learning.
Technological Innovation Manage all
financial resources required to implement all
technology plans using and providing best
business and technology practices.
Globalization Diversity Promote diversity
through outreach programs, business
relationships, and hiring.
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Strategic Goals Enrollment Management 2002-2003

• Academic Quality
• Enhance admission selectivity

Student-Centered Learning Community Develop
a retention tracking model
Technological Innovation Implement a
communications plan to better inform prospective
students and parents of the benefits of the
laptop program.
Globalization Diversity Increase
population of under-represented groups
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Strategic Goals Information Technology 2002-2003

• Academic Quality
• Develop plan for enhancing the competitive
  quality of the technological infrastructure for
  SBDC, Career Services, Alumni, EDC, Chafee Center
  and the Graduate School

Student-Centered Learning Community Develop
Phase II plans for enhancement and integration of
Banner, Blackboard, Portal and Portfolio
Technological Innovation Develop 5 year
technology plan by September, 2003 to achieve the
Colleges academic and community life goals.
Globalization Diversity Develop a plan to
enhance and integrate Bryants web enabled
software systems for recruiting students, staff
and faculty by July 2002
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Strategic Goals Institutional Advancement 2002-200
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• Academic Quality
• Expand academic opinion makers campaign

Student-Centered Learning Community Execute
a comprehensive PR plan focusing on the
transformation of Bryant to a student-center
learning community
Technological Innovation Improve the
effectiveness of Colleges web resources using
new branding strategy
Globalization Diversity Develop
scholarship support for target populations
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Strategic Goals Student Affairs 2002-2003

• Academic Quality
• Effectively socialize students into the
  community of scholars through a series of
  structure programs designed to be both
  informative and engaging

Student-Centered Learning Community
Innovative co-curricular programming will be
introduced focusing on issues related to ethics
personal responsibility.
Technological Innovation The freshman class
will create portfolios demonstrating their
progress in developing critical skills and
personal attributes.
Globalization Diversity Will present
diversity training to equip student leaders to be
contributors to an accepting and supportive
community.
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Telling Our Story

• If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears
  it, is there sound?
• We have done, are doing, and will do a great many
  of noteworthy things. We have accomplished a lot
  and we need to get the word out.
• Message
• College Materials
• Press Coverage
• Free Media
• Paid Media

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