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• Reduce barriers and simplify processes so diverse learners can successfully apply, be admitted, and enrolled for ��ӥ����ֱ�� educational opportunities. 
• Implement innovations to improve affordability of an ��ӥ����ֱ�� education.
• Expand outreach and partnerships with P-12 schools, community colleges, non-profits, and business and industry to increase educational opportunities that serve the needs of both students and the community.
• Increase the number of first-generation, post-traditional, international, and underrepresented students at ��ӥ����ֱ��, particularly in fields where their underrepresentation is most significant.
• Design a welcoming and desirable ��ӥ����ֱ�� experience to create a sense of belonging for all students.

��ӥ����ֱ�� will align the institution so more learners, particularly first-generation, post-traditional, low-income, and underrepresented individuals, earn highly-valued degrees, certificates, and credentials.

• Enhance the culture of service-orientation that respects the realities of our students’ lives and provides consistent, responsive care, and support across all areas with special emphasis on wellness, advising, financial aid, and career preparation. 
• Increase flexible, experiential, and modular learning pathways that allow students to earn credentials along the way to their degree, and implement components of competency-based education in majors where possible.
• Implement innovative instructional and curricular approaches to reduce time-to-degree. 
• Significantly improve retention, persistence, and graduation rates with special emphasis on closing the achievement gap through meaningful use of predictive analytics and technology-based student success tools.
• Align the institution’s policies, procedures, resources, rewards, and incentives to encourage scholarship, creativity, collaboration, and innovations that advance student success
  

��ӥ����ֱ�� will increase its contributions to the economic, social, and civic prosperity of the region through talent development, research and innovation, and the stewardship of place.

• Build experiential and co-curricular learning into all majors at ��ӥ����ֱ�� to enhance students’ career readiness and lifelong learning.
• Ensure that creativity, global awareness, cultural competence, and literacy in technology and data are hallmarks of ��ӥ����ֱ��’s undergraduate education.
• Expand public-private partnerships to accelerate innovation and entrepreneurship across the university.
• Strengthen engagement among alumni, business, and other external organizations with ��ӥ����ֱ�� students, faculty and staff. 
• Improve post-graduation outcomes to enhance graduates’ economic and social mobility.