Finance & Funding • Increase our scholarship endowment and expand our financial aid programs to offer more benefits to prospective and existing families. • Develop and fund a faculty and staff retention plan to continue to maintain a talented pool of educators and administrators. • Support, prioritize, and fund key initiatives and goals identified by the MDSA 2022 Strategic Plan while effectively managing the debt associated with the Center for Performing Arts and Student Life.
Mission Statement Mount de Sales Academy forms young women in the spirit of Saint Francis de Sales and in fidelity to the Sacred Scripture and the Sacred Tradition of the Roman Catholic Church through a college preparatory education that nurtures the whole person. Anchored in faith, the community of Mount de Sales Academy is committed to academic excellence, lifelong learning, moral responsibility, service to others, and the dignity of the human person.
Mount de Sales Academy Strategic Plan 2022-2028 OVERVIEW This Strategic Plan for Mount de Sales Academy charts our course for the next several years as we continue our flourishing mission to provide high school girls an academically excellent Catholic education that nurtures the whole person. The plan is the culmination of an effort that spanned the 2021-2022 school year with cross-constituency input and Board of Trustees led analysis and synthesis. Detailed here are seven focus areas of existing strengths for enhancement and opportunities for improvement. Under the direction of the Board of Trustees, the Administration, Faculty, and Staff of MDSA will execute the plan. Mount de Sales Academy is grateful for all who contributed to this plan. Jesus Christ is our anchor as we navigate MDSA’s bright future for the benefit of the girls entrusted to us for their education.
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Student Experience • Encourage strong personal and social networks fostering greater unity between students, building a culture of communion and belonging through increased opportunities to gather, collaborate, and interact, including participation in athletics, service, and clubs, and attendance at after-school events.
Faith • Cultivate a community that affirms and nurtures the dignity of the human person by developing within the students a healthy respect and understanding of the value of self-discipline and growth in the moral and spiritual life.
• Envision and design all co-curricular activities as an opportunity for each student to practice the virtues of leadership, teamwork, and compassion. • Create a cohesive culture that fosters engagement between prospective students, current students, and alumnae. • Increase the awareness of athletes, artists, and actors by highlighting and showcasing our athletic programs and the visual and performing arts.
• Create opportunities for the students to experience social and cultural differences throughout our world, preparing them to live the truth in charity.
Digital Technology
• Increase the engagement of students with Campus Ministry to encounter Christ throughout their four years at Mount de Sales.
• Maintain digital effectiveness through sound technology investment, comprehensive integration, appropriate technology staffing, and continuing the one-to-one device initiative.
Academic Excellence
• Adopt digital technology systems and processes to promote organization and communication within the Mount de Sales community.
• Identify and promote available STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) course offerings to current and prospective students. • Emphasize the mission of Mount de Sales through academic disciplines that encourage personal creativity, critical thinking, and resiliency. • Increase academic support for students new to MDSA through innovative faculty-directed supportive programs. • Provide on-going technology training for students, parents, faculty, and staff with an emphasis on the healthy use of technology.
• Assess organization risk and remediate through improved practices and digital security.
Enrollment & Marketing • Expand our reach geographically to be topof-mind (in top three) with families thinking about high school choices. • Identify alumnae champions and current student champions to tell their stories showing the lasting value of a Mount de Sales education. • Effectively articulate the academic, faithbased, joy-filled mission of Mount de Sales Academy, becoming better known in the community while highlighting the return on investment of a Mount de Sales education.
Facilities • Develop and implement a campus master plan that ensures the proper and timely campus maintenance for safe and efficient usage by the students and community, taking into consideration the Facilities Condition Assessment from 2022. • Establish a timeline and a plan for adequate financing and staffing to support the campus maintenance, beautification, and historical aspects of the buildings. • Develop a Technology Assessment Plan that can continue to flexibly respond to a changing digital world, ensure academic excellence, and effectively connect members of the Mount de Sales community.