Enhance Strength and Stability

A key to Elmira College’s future success is ensuring strong enrollment through annual growth and increased graduation rates.

As higher education faces a decline in the number of traditional-age college students and growing skepticism about the value of a college degree, we will focus on recruiting diverse faculty, staff, and students, all while meeting undergraduates’ educational needs by introducing new academic programs in high-demand fields.

Beyond enrollment, strengthening the College’s financial position remains a priority as we continue to look at cost-saving initiatives and diverse revenue streams, and increase philanthropic support.

Goals

Ensure strong enrollment through annual enrollment growth and persistence to graduation

Objectives:

• Increase undergraduate and graduate FTE enrollment by 30% between fall 2023 and fall 2028 as outlined in the College’s Five-Year Financial Plan
• Expand athletic recruitment through expansion of athletic program offerings and installation of turf field on campus
• Build student success structure and programming to increase retention, persistence, and graduation rates
• Research, develop, and implement graduate programs to enhance student advancement
• Develop active partnerships that engage faculty and students from regional community colleges with EC faculty and students to strengthen collaboration and transfer pipeline

Strengthen EC’s financial position through cost-savings and diversification and augmentation of revenue streams

Objectives:

• Develop campuswide strategies to maximize space utilization, reduce costs, and identify areas for revenue generation
• Review Elmira College’s organizational structure to maximize efficiency and provide for future growth. 

Use best practices to continuously improve institutional sustainability and effectiveness

Objectives:

• Promote and facilitate increased collaboration and communication across departments and divisions
• Establish and centralize a data infrastructure that supports the College’s analytics needs, provides data access to end users, and optimizes resources to support data informed decision making
• Enhance the College’s commitment to environmental sustainability through participation in and implementation of environmentally focused partnerships and initiatives
• Provide continuity and growth for academic programs through retention of faculty and staff by developing and implementing plan to rectify salary compression and bring salaries inline with CUPA targets

Increase philanthropic support to the College

Objectives:

• Finalize plans for and begin initial phases of comprehensive campaign
• Use best practices in database management to enhance giving trend analysis
• Grow the culture of philanthropy with internal and external EC communities by building relationships with alumni and implementing an educational campaign with students and employees
• Increase alumni engagement by expanding in-person and virtual alumni programming

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