Strategic Goal #2: Enhance and Develop Academic and Athletic Programs

Enhance our ability to identify marketplace needs and opportunities, create programs and partnerships that meet those needs, and launch those initiatives effectively.

Proverbs 27:17 NLT

As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

Success Measures: 

These success measures will require us to focus strategically on community-college partnerships and on the particular new, existing, and joint programs that are most likely to attract students to the university. 

Furthermore, we will need to do so without increasing our discount rate. We must diversify our revenue streams and, in particular, reduce the University’s reliance on traditional undergraduate tuition revenue.    

  • Enrollment and Average Net Revenue Per Student in existing and new programs that have been targeted for enhanced marketing and recruitment efforts, and in joint programs with other institutions.

2026 Success Outcomes:

  1. Implementation of an effective new program develop system in which multiple new programs met benchmark goals in enrollment and net tuition revenue.
  2. Effectively utilize current program metrics to revitalize programs to meet benchmark goals in enrollment and net tuition revenue or to have sun-setted those programs.   

2023-2024 Institutional Priority Goals: 

  1. Complete feasibility studies for 3 potentially high impact new programs. 
  2. Assist 3 businesses submit new TechCred applications to partner with Malone.
  3. Expand Learn & Earn from 1 to 3 business partnerships. 
  4. Complete feasibility studies for 1 complete CBE program. 
  5. Complete all designated unscheduled academic program reviews and propose revitalization or sunsetting plans.