UWA’s Strategic Plan for 2020-2025
UWA has developed a five-year strategic plan with the mission of enriching lives through education, service and outreach, with an accompanying vision of offering quality education and effective services while establishing a model for leadership in our region and beyond.
The key pillars of the plan are promoting high-quality, relevant academic programs and faculty that ensure student transitions to career or graduate school; growing enrollment; increasing retention and persistence to graduation; pursuing an institutional identity that exemplifies effective communication, inclusiveness, collaboration and outreach; and increasing operational efficiency and fiscal responsibility.
The University’s strategic plan is steered by input from throughout campus to serve not simply as a road map but as a compass, so that we may not only be guided in our efforts but that we may continually be responsive to the needs of those we serve.
University Stakeholders and Goals
Board: Maintain a collaborative relationship with the Board
Faculty: Recruit and maintain highly qualified faculty, especially from diverse ethnic and geographic backgrounds
Staff: Attract and retain highly qualified and diverse staff
Graduates: Provide quality online and on campus programs that are accessible to qualified students, particularly those who seek to enhance their professional credentials
Undergraduates: Raise student retention and graduation rates through enhanced quality of residential life and extracurricular experience
Potential Students: Work toward a comprehensive recruitment plan to communicate the value of a UWA education to targeted audiences
Alumni: Engage alumni to encourage more involvement in and support for the University
Government: Aggressively pursue relationships that help UWA communicate the value of the institution to the region and the state and the nation
Community: Continue to address the major educational, social, and economic issues of the region through research and service and engage community as partner in reaching University goals
International Partners: Develop and expand cooperative education programs with select institutions in other countries.
Business and Industry: Continue to partner with business and industry to bolster economic development in the Black Belt as well as to improve the general quality of life through the region.
Athletics: Continue to improve academic performance of student athletes and improve the institution’s ranking within the Gulf South Conference.