主题1:承诺 & 对成功的信念

充满活力的经验 & 持久连接

学术顾问 For High Impact Learning & 订婚

Success 项目 For First Generational 支持

A commitment to serve our students by knowing who they are and how we can make things better for them. 我们将 implement academic department advising for high impact learning and engagement. Rather than informing students on simply which classes to take in their field of study, 我们的建议将包罗万象, 包括绘制学术成就图, and advising on extra-curricular activities, 专业的机会, 实习, and upper-class mentorship opportunities within the major. 我们将 specifically develop success programs to support first generation students, as well as 在线项目 and adult students.

处处参与学习

放置 & 准备

教师发展 & 员工保留

An expanded summer program can provide a transition to help 我们的学生在大学有一个快速的开始. 我们也会发展 为我们的教职员工提供机会. 我们将致力于 investing in professional development and provide training to better understand our institutional policies. 底线是 that we will take care of our people – students, faculty, and staff.

重要的结果

连续夏季招生

A Student-Focused Culture In All Areas Of The University That Is Universal With All 机构内的持份者

Adequately supporting students, especially first-generation students, is largely dependent on the attitudes of the faculty and administrators who are charged with nurturing their success. The paths we take in our decision-making process will consider the ultimate destination of leading our students to a degree. Our goal will be to create emerging scholars, marketable professionals, and enlightened individuals. 在一个机构里 level, our programs will be developed to see a greater emphasis 关于学生的个人发展. 我们将 improve the university culture and create a learning environment that will lead to more well-prepared graduates as they enter the job 推销并推进他们的职业生涯. 这样的环境将 attract new students and retain our existing students. 我们将 develop a summer course pipeline that helps students achieve graduation on time, focusing on specific courses that will move 完成学业的学生最多.

Success will be not be an exception, but rather the expectation 给我们所有的学生.

授权 & 支持 保留

加强员工保留文化

Strategically Use 金融援助 To 支持 保留

Limestone will foster an institutional culture that will empower 支持我们留住学生的努力. 我们将采取 responsibility for all phases of each student’s status. 通过一个 collaborative effort, we will be focused on all aspects that guide our students toward successful degree completion. 我们将 develop a communication system across campus to intervene if a student veers off the path to earn a degree. 我们也会发展 data from institutional research to develop financial aid and perseverance scholarships to target the specific classifications of students where incremental aid can enhance retention.

Student retention is the key to Limestone improving its graduation rates and decreasing the loss of tuition revenue from students who drop-out or move on to other institutions that they 感知以更好地满足他们的需求. 我们的大学致力于 to helping students achieve their goal of a Limestone degree. That commitment includes exceptional support services to help students transition during their first year of college, as well as the necessary resources to ensure student success to graduation. Our retention rate is a significant indicator of how responsive we are as an institution to the needs of our students – 尤其是新生.

主题2:转变期望