COKER UNIVERSITY
战略计划
2021-2025
For more than a century, Coker University has transformed 生活s for many generations. In May of 2021, Coker University formally launched its new strategic plan to ensure that it continues to educate, 创新, and prepare future generations for the opportunities ahead.
With this strategic plan as its guide, Coker University is focused on its future, prioritizing those actions and investments that are most relevant and accessible for students, while providing Coker 校友 with even stronger paths to success. Coker is committed to meeting the changing needs of its students and community.
STUDENT SUCCESS
Ensure our students have every opportunity to gain employment in high-need and forward-thinking industries by building on the liberal arts foundation of Coker.
- Be distinct in the way students 参与 in full academic, social, and emotional 学习ing 经历 building on a contemporary liberal arts education model.
- Clearly connect students to the 工作force by preparing students with a robust skill set and aligning to market needs.
- Be responsive and agile by offering alternative educational models to meet market and industry demands.
- Positively shape students’ personal and professional 生活s beyond college through 学习ing opportunities that broaden students’ perspectives for problem-solving and curiosity for continued 学习ing and build intentional relationships between students, 教师, 导师, and the community.
- Integrate collaborative 学习ing opportunities for all students that extend beyond a traditional classroom experience.
WORK ENVIRONMENT & 文化
雇佣, 开发, and support Coker 员工 to continuously grow and 开发 to meet professional industry demands and to do so with agility and creativity.
- Intentionally cultivate a 工作 environment where 员工 are 参与d and empowered to lead the way for achieving Coker Excellence.
- Build and grow the employee experience.
- Foster an equitable 工作 environment and recruit, 开发, 识别, and retain 员工 by focusing on the diversity of people, 经历, 和思想.
- Extend the Coker cultural experience to be inclusive of all stakeholders including students, 员工, 校友, 社区, and university partners.
VIBRANT COMMUNITIES
合作, 参与, and lead the way to advance our 社区 to be great places to 生活, 工作, 和学习.
- Proactively strengthen university and community relationships to create a community that has a 生活ly downtown where citizens want to 工作, 生活, 学习, 商店, 和玩耍.
- Launch a community space for open 学习ing, public impact, and creativity.
- Be the leader for collaboratively building a blueprint for citizen-powered change in the community.
- Attract investments to bring good jobs to the community that benefit students in college and beyond.
FINANCIAL HEALTH
Design a contemporary business model to invest and reinvest in innovative and creative 学习ing 经历 that create prosperous 学习ing 经历.
- Demonstrate a return on dollars invested in students by creating an affordable, high value education.
- 保持警惕, agile and flexible to grow funding sources and alternative revenue streams that advance and modernize an academic, emotional and social 学习ing place.
- Grow the Coker Endowment and revenue streams through capital investments, public/private partnerships, and extensive opportunities for innovation and outreach.
- Transform and deploy an operating and service model to build efficiencies and accelerate returns of investments.
