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Academic Master Plan

Goal 1: APSU will be a premier public regional university known for student-centered teaching excellence and high quality, innovative, and creative scholarship that is responsive to the needs of our diverse community and beyond.

  • Objective 1: Increase high-quality instruction.
  • Objective 2: Enhance the quality and breadth of faculty scholarship, to include pedagogical scholarship.
  • Objective 3: Demonstrate the quality of academic programs by satisfying state standards and professional accreditation expectations.
  • Objective 5: Attract, hire, and retain high-quality faculty and staff to include underrepresented populations.

Goal 2: APSU will optimize our institutional infrastructure to meet the academic needs of our students.

  • Objective 1: Increase the efficient use of educational spaces.
  • Objective 2: Align organizational structures across the university.
  • Objective 3: Increase the variety and flexibility of academic offerings across terms, instructional sites, times of day, and modalities to improve educational accessibility.

Goal 1: APSU will cultivate a comprehensive student support culture.

  • Objective 1: Foster University-wide engagement in strategic enrollment activities throughout the student’s journey at APSU.
  • Objective 2: Strengthen collection, analysis and communication of recruitment, yield, retention, and completion data.  

Goal 2: APSU will optimize University undergraduate enrollment with gains in targeted focal populations.

  • Objective 1: Increase incoming enrollment of the First-Time Full-Time (FTFT) traditional freshmen student cohort to 1,650 (FT total freshman cohort to 1,800) students by 2027.
  • Objective 2: Achieve overall enrollment of all of the other undergraduate populations to 80% of overall undergraduate enrollment by 2027.

Goal 3: Improve undergraduate retention rates and persistence to graduation by strengthening student success strategies.

  • Objective 1: Increase overall first-year retention rates by 7 percentage points by 2027.
  • Objective 2: Increase the four-year graduation rate by 3.5 percentage points by 2027.

Goal 4: The College of Graduate Studies will meet the needs of APSU’s service region.

  • Objective 1: Increase overall graduate enrollment by 5.5% per year by 2027.
  • Objective 2: Increase the graduate 3-year graduation rate by 3 percentage points by 2027.

Goal 1: APSU will increase the number of students academically engaged beyond the classroom.

  • Objective 1: Increase number of students participating in HIPs and/or co-curricular activities to support student success. 
  • Objective 2: Increase number of faculty participating in HIPs and co-curricular activities.
  • Objective 3: Strengthen communication among faculty, staff, advisors, and students regarding opportunities for High-Impact Practices and co-curricular activities.

Goal 2: APSU will evolve wraparound student support services to ensure that all students are equipped to pursue their educational and career goals in an empowering environment.

  • Objective 1: Expand the professional advising model beyond the first-year student cohort. 
  • Objective 2: Strengthen financial literacy and wellness for all APSU students.
  • Objective 3: Strengthen University collaboration to foster awareness of and access to student support resources. 
  • Objective 4: Improve the quality, consistency, and accessibility of our student support resources to include a centralized student support services location. 
  • Objective 5: Transform career readiness at APSU and increase positive career outcomes upon graduation, employment, military, or advanced education.
  • Objective 6: Improve tracking of students post-graduation.

Goal 1: APSU will evolve academic offerings to strengthen our emphasis on delivering quality programs that address community and regional needs.

  • Objective 1: Align programs to better serve the needs of the community and region.
  • Objective 2: Evolve and update programs and curricula to address current best practices in preparing students to contribute professionally, civically, and creatively in their field of choice.
  • Objective 3: Develop a sustainable model that links service-learning, service opportunities, internships, and volunteer efforts to community organizations. 

Goal 2: APSU will offer a comprehensive menu of continuing education opportunities to serve the needs of community. 

  • Objective 1: Develop new programs and modify existing programs to serve the needs of the community and region
  • Objective 2: Ensure continuing education is financially sustainable and mission-aligned.
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