STRATEGIC GOALS

Goal 1.E

To recruit and retain a committed and qualified body of SECCM students.

The predicted decline in enrollment of traditional college-aged students at RWU due to the ‘demographic cliff’ requires us to explore innovative ways to interact with both traditional and non-traditional prospective students, including working closely with on-campus admissions teams and guidance counselors. In addition, once a student is enrolled, we must continue to monitor and support them, for example, through enhanced tutoring availability, to ensure their success and retention across all SECCM programs.

Goal 1.F

To facilitate the career development of SECCM students.

One of the primary missions of the SECCM faculty and staff is to ensure that our students are ready for their next step after RWU – whether this is additional education or full-time employment. This can occur through internships and externships during which students connect their on-campus learning with the real world. We will collaborate with partners – such as the Center for Career and Professional Development internally as well as hiring industries and institutions that offer relevant graduate degrees externally – to achieve this; we will also engage our Professional Advisory Boards for their assistance. We seek to increase the number, breadth, and quality of internship, externship, employment, and graduate school opportunities for our students.

Goal 1.G

To increase the number and breadth of international learning opportunities for SECCM students.

Technology continues to make the world a smaller place, and the ever-changing demographics of the regional, national, and global population make cultural understanding and sensitivity paramount. Exposing SECCM students and faculty to international activities will increase these capabilities within our community. By working with the RWU Spiegel Center for Global and International Programs, for example, we will make it easier for students to study abroad by identifying specific courses at vetted programs that will transfer for credit in place of specific courses within our curricula and by developing corresponding memorandums of agreement. We will also identify credit-bearing summer and winter courses abroad that meet a curricular requirement, seek grants for study abroad capacity-building projects, and investigate faculty and student international exchange programs for both courses and research.