ASA Strategic Plan

Mission

亚洲无码 Academic and Student Affairs (ASA) will be a national leader in transforming higher education systems and practices to improve student outcomes and eliminate disparities.

Strategic Vision

亚洲无码 will be known nationally as a system that is continually evolving and one that embraces and thrives on creating new and more effective ways to educate and serve students, our communities, and our state.
亚洲无码 will pursue intentional, equity-focused, and evidence-based solutions to address the problems of today and tomorrow.
亚洲无码 will sustain rigor in our work – holding high standards and expectations of our students, our partners, and ourselves.
亚洲无码 will approach our work with intentionality and compassion – working with integrity, humility, and caring, accepting people where they are and moving them forward without sacrificing standards or expectations.

2022-2025 ASA Key Principles and Initiatives

Strategic Enrollment Management

Re-envisioning and enhancing the entire student experience to improve student success and effectively manage enrollment.

Strategic Enrollment Management

亚洲无码 Guided Learning Pathways

Re-envisioning learning pathways to create multiple and equitable paths to development and credentials for lifelong success.

Guided Learning Pathways

Innovation and
Evolution

Re-envisioning higher education as a collective, collaborative enterprise where innovation and evolution are integral to our culture.

ASA Strategies: Key Principles and Initiatives

Re-envisioning and enhancing the entire student experience to improve student success and effectively manage enrollment.

Strategic Enrollment Management (SEM) encompasses the entirety of a college or university’s work to recruit, enroll, retain, and graduate students in the context of the college or university’s mission and the communities they serve.

Strategic Enrollment Management Strategies
Initiative	Strategies
Basic Needs	Identify and expand resources for basic needs student support strategies, including the rollout of the United Way 211 partnership.
Mental Health	Identify and expand resources for mental health student support strategies. See Mantra Health.
System SEM Workplan	Implement recommendations from the SEM Workgroup. See Strategic Enrollment Management Approach.
AssessED	Implement the credit for prior learning web-based platform and workflow.
Transfer Pathways	Engage in the 3rd and 4th phases of the Transfer Pathways program review.
Online Programming	Reexamine outstanding strategies and action items included in the 2018 report, Advancing Online Education. Create opportunities for institutions to collaborate on offering courses aligned with 亚洲无码 priorities (e.g., Transfer Pathways, Lower General Education, etc.) leveraging open educational resources (OER) where possible.

亚洲无码 Guided Learning Pathways is a framework that seeks to streamline a student’s journey by focusing on:

curricular and program design/delivery,
comprehensive orientation and first-year experience, and
holistic advising and comprehensive student support.

In 2019, the Board of Trustees endorsed 亚洲无码 Guided Learning Pathways as a framework to approach our student success and equity goals in the pursuit of meeting Equity 2030.

亚洲无码 Guided Learning Pathways Strategies
Initiative	Strategies
Program Review and Quality Assurance	Phase I: Peace Officer and Criminal Justice program reviews. Phase II: Transfer Pathway program evaluations. Phase III: Implementation of system-level program review and quality assurance process to ensure offerings of high-quality programming that support the educational and career goals of students.
Regional and Specialized Accreditation	Phase I: In 2019, The Academic Affairs Unit created the position of Director of Accreditation and Assessment to support institutions with regional accreditation. Phase II: The unit will create additional resources and supports for specialized and programmatic accreditation.
Tackling Transfer	Improving the transfer student experience by ensuring students have seamless transfer within the 亚洲无码 system through work on Transfer Pathways, Reverse Transfer, Transfer Review and Appeal, Transfer Success Technology (e.g., DARS, e-Transcript, Transferology, uAchieve Graduation Planner and Schedule Builder, Transfer Evaluation System). Implement the Transfer Leadership Action Team’s recommendations.
Lower General Education Redesign	Strengthen transfer with better alignment of lower-level general education courses by engaging in the General Education Redesign process and implementation.
Developmental Education	Support our campus' developmental education curriculum efforts to eliminate disparities across student populations. Phase I: Ensure more students have the opportunity to complete a college gateway course in their first year of study through work on Math Pathways. Phase II: Multiple Measures Course Placement. Implement the Developmental Education Leadership Action Team’s recommendations.
Transfer Pathways	Engage in the 3rd and 4th phases of the transfer pathways program review. Implement recommendations of Transfer Pathways Faculty Communities of Practice from 1st and 2nd phases of the transfer pathways program review.
Basic Needs	Identify and expand resources for basic needs student support strategies, including the rollout of the United Way 211 partnership.
Mental Health	Identify and expand resources for mental health student support strategies. See Mantra Health.
Early Access	Expand access for high school students to postsecondary courses through Dual Enrollment. A PSEO workgroup was created to develop a Strategic Plan to support in early student access to 亚洲无码 course(s) and programming.
Degree Audit and Student Academic Planning	Support students in staying on track toward educational goals, including using tools such as uAchieve Graduation Planner and Schedule Builder. See 亚洲无码 Student Planner.
SUCCESS Pilot Program	Expand the number of institutions participating in the SUCCESS pilot program. Provide leadership for the continued implementation and coordination of SUCCESS pilot programs.
Comprehensive Orientation and Holistic Advising	Create a community of practice for advising and a community of practice for comprehensive orientation to share information on effective practices, strategies, tools, and resources to best support our students. Create an annual conference/summit focusing on comprehensive orientation and holistic advising best-practices and evidence-based strategies.

Re-envisioning higher education as a collective and collaborative enterprise where innovation and evolution are integral to our culture.

To achieve the ambitious goal of Equity 2030 and to respond to the rapid and ongoing changes in the cultural, economic, and political context in which higher education operates, we will need to both evolve existing models and innovate to develop altogether new models to meet the needs of current and future students.

Innovation and Evolution Strategies
Initiative	Strategies
Innovating and Collaborating Toward Equity 2030	Rebrand funding programs from “innovation funding” and “multi-campus collaboration” to “Innovating and Collaborating Toward Equity 2030. Leverage innovation and collaboration across system office units and campuses to better align initiatives.
Open Educational Resources	Expand development opportunities that incentivize the creation and adoption of available open educational resources (OER) grounded in equity and digital accessibility by supporting expanded training and support for faculty.
Equity by Design	Through an ongoing partnership with the Office of Equity and Inclusion to advance Equity 2030, the Network for Educational Development (NED) will expand educational development programming offerings to integrate Equity by Design methodology, e.g., in the criteria used for program review and quality assurance processes.
Z-Degrees	Provide support to maintain existing Z-Degrees and incentivize the creation of additional Z-Degrees, a complete associate or bachelor’s degree program that exclusively use course resources that are no cost to students (e.g., OERs, open textbooks, library-curated materials).
NextGen - Workday	亚洲无码 selected Workday as its modern technology solution for its ability to provide 亚洲无码 with a more consolidated and efficient system. Workday will replace the Integrated Statewide Records System (ISRS). Workday will bring a multitude of benefits to 亚洲无码, most notably enhanced service delivery.

亚洲无码 Equity 2030

亚洲无码 set a critical goal: By 2030, 亚洲无码 will eliminate the educational equity gaps at every 亚洲无码 college and university. To accomplish the goal of Equity 2030, we must be able to ensure that the strength of our diverse institutions is not lost while at the same time working to make sure our system can continue to serve all residents of Minnesota. To reach Equity 2030, 亚洲无码 recognizes that it must adapt and change its systems and cultures to meet the needs of today’s students, rather than expect today’s students to learn or adapt to the systems and culture of yesterday’s higher education.

Realizing these changes, the Academic and Student Affairs division will think and act differently to eliminate barriers that inhibit student access and student success by fostering innovation and being more strategic in our approaches to support and serve our students. ASA will implement change through three key principles to effectively implement 亚洲无码 Guided Learning Pathways across all colleges and universities in 亚洲无码.

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