Strategic Plan

Excellence in Teaching and Learning

• Recruit and graduate a diverse, talented student body with potential for success
• Recruit and retain outstanding faculty who enrich the diversity of teaching and scholarship
• Increase student success through high impact teaching, experiential learning, advising and career preparedness
• Improve student experiences to enhance learning outcomes and engagement
• Enhance curriculum to respond to student needs and changing market demands

Unique University Assets and Experiences

• Leverage the location in Jersey City and the greater metropolitan area
• Maximize and celebrate diversity to create a truly inclusive campus culture
• Prepare students for purposeful lives through service, leadership and wellness
• Increase engagement for all students, with a focus on magis
• Promote Jesuit values and spirituality
• Build a winning athletic program with an enthusiastic University spirit

Effective Resources to Support Student Success

• Improve fiscal management and conditions
• Grow donor base, leadership giving, volunteerism and engagement through effective outreach
• Build the University’s reputation, brand and market share
• Manage and develop effective human, capital and technology resources
• Recognize and continue to improve our distinctive “culture of care”
• Improve campus facilities to create an environment that supports educational excellence

Global Knowledge and Engagement

• Enhance curricular and co-curricular experiences to prepare students with intercultural skills
• Establish an effective organizational structure to support globalization efforts
• Encourage faculty/staff to globalize research, instruction and outreach
• Intensify recruitment of international faculty and students to the campus
• Expand international study opportunities for faculty and students to be immersed in other
• countries and cultures

Prominent Community Partnerships

• Promote greater student engagement in the external community
• Expand opportunities to bring pre-college students, adults and community organizations to campus
• Build a strategic plan for engagement with corporate/community/educational organizations
• Be a catalyst for urban innovation and development

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