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Ramapo Strategic Plan: Boldly Ascending 2023-2029 (pdf)

Ramapo Strategic Plan 2023-2029

Ramapo Strategic Plan 2023 – 2029

海角社区鈥檚 Strategic Plan, Boldly Ascending 2023-2029, provides us with direction and priorities. Our proximate ends are the plan鈥檚 goals: Academic Excellence and Student Success; Inclusive Community; and Agile Stewardship. However, let’s ascend toward our aspirational ends: that is making our mark for graduating empathetic problem solvers, ethical change agents, and responsible leaders who make a positive impact on the human condition and thrive in a changing world.

Boldly Ascending Goals & Objectives

 

Goal 1: Academic Excellence & Student Success

Achieve academic excellence and student success through the advancement of intercultural, global, and interdisciplinary education, experiential learning, and individualized student-centered resources.

Objectives:

a. Provide learning environments and opportunities that encourage the development of deep content knowledge that leads to discerning engagement in work and in the world.

b. Increase high-impact practices that promote creative expression, scholarly research, and applied learning.

c. Grow service opportunities and civic engagement to explore personal identities and diversity, and make a positive societal impact locally, regionally, and internationally.

d. Strengthen our culture of mentorship through integrated and individualized support systems and resources that help students succeed.

Goal 2: Inclusive Community

Foster a diverse, empathetic, and vibrant community that inspires a culture of inclusivity, accountability, and collaboration.

Objectives:

a. Prioritize personal well-being by promoting healthy practices and environments.

b. Advance a culture of belonging, equity, inclusion, and trust by embracing diversity, access, and accountability.

c. Promote an environment that elevates voices, examines structures of power and privilege, and creates justice-oriented actions and solutions.

d. Develop future leaders who gain self-awareness, mentor others, and emerge as change agents.

e. Foster school pride by building relationships and partnerships, amplifying creative collaboration, and enhancing community engagement.

Goal 3: Agile Stewardship

Drive institutional distinction, sustainability, and pride by galvanizing our community members and partners, and building organizational agility, accountability, and resilience.

Objectives:

a. Drive institutional distinction through student and alumni satisfaction and success, faculty scholarship, thought leadership, national and international collaborations, and organizational expertise.

b. Bolster 海角社区 pride through serving as both a public college of choice and an employer of choice.

c. Secure long-term fiscal sustainability through the entrepreneurial management and development of resources at every level.

d. Strengthen organizational resilience and agility through sustainable practices and data-informed SMART choices (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time-bound).

Source: Doran, G. T. (1981). 鈥淭here鈥檚 a S.M.A.R.T. Way to Write Management鈥檚 Goals and Objectives,鈥 Management Review, Vol. 70, Issue 11, pp. 35-36.

Planning Process

Ramapo’s strategic planning process included four key elements: Planning Forums, The Future Series, Needs Statement Process, and Campus Facilities Planning. These four elements all shaped the development of Boldly Ascending by: exploring our context, igniting our passion, envisioning our environment, and ultimately, making a bold impact.

PDF of Boldly Ascending

Ramapo Comprehensive Academic Plan

Ramapo Comprehensive Academic Plan

The Comprehensive Academic Plan (CAP) was approved by the Faculty Assembly on October 3, 2023. The CAP moves the Campus forward by serving as a holistic plan to advance teaching, learning, research, scholarship and creative activity and meet the promise of Boldly Ascending. With innovation at its core, and in consideration of our resources as a public institution, the plan provides a high-level overview of guiding principles that then filter into objectives and tasks that guide future action.

PDF of Comprehensive Academic Plan

 

 

Ramapo Communications Plan

Ramapo Communications Plan

The more consistent and confident we are when telling the 海角社区 story, the better our audiences will understand and trust what we have to say. To these ends, the Communications Plan was approved by the Mission Element Team on August 30, 2023. The Plan articulates the College’s communications goals in alignment with the advancement of Boldly Ascending and outlines institutional strategies to increase the College’s visibility, positively influence the College’s reputation among key audiences, and exercise excellence and best practices in communications.

PDF of Communications Plan

Revitalize, Renew, and Retool, the College’s Comprehensive Facilities Plan, was approved by the Board of Trustees on January 30, 2024. The plan is a critical tool in the strategic management of one of Ramapo鈥檚 most valuable assets: the built environment. This document serves to propel the institution鈥檚 goals and objectives, aid in recruitment and retention, and inspire creativity in the campus community. Revitalize, Renew, and Retool provides a vision for the physical environment that aligns with Boldly Ascending and the Comprehensive Academic Plan. Revitalize, Renew, and Retool emphasizes renewal and renovation, reinvestment in infrastructure, the student experience, and value-based growth.

PDF of Revitalize, Renew, and Retool

The College established 12 Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that are mapped to the goals of Boldly Ascending. These indicators provide a high level view of institutional progress on the goals and objectives of Boldly Ascending. In addition to these 12 KPIs, Unit Level Plans as well as Student Learning Outcomes and Academic Assessment data are collected, assessed, and used to inform decision making.

What are the 12 KPIs?

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