Academic Excellence

  1. Develop effective departmental and General Studies assessment policies and procedures based on student learning outcomes
  2. Re-envision the experiential learning requirement (ELR) by exploring ways to deepen and expand the Elon Experiences
  3. Establish a sound and innovative first-year law program
    1. Incorporate leadership development experience into first-year student orientation
    2. Develop and conduct Winter Term mastery program based on fall law classes
    3. Develop the country’s first preceptor program (mentoring by practicing attorneys)
    4. Prepare for 2007 ABA accreditation inspection visit
      1. Conduct self-study
      2. Provide responses to ABA inspection questionnaire
      3. Conduct mock ABA inspection
    5. Recruit six additional faculty
    6. Enroll 2nd law school class of 100-110 students with 153 LSAT average
    7. Continue to pursue integration of Elon and Greensboro campuses
  4. Continue steps toward national recognition of academic programs
    1. Submit application Nov. 1, 2006 to shelter Phi Beta Kappa chapter
    2. Host successful NCATE/SDPI accreditation visit in spring 2007
  5. Develop new academic programs and strengthen existing ones
    1. Investigate arts administration, engineering management, sport communications, and master of science in accounting
    2. Strengthen pre-med and health professions program
    3. Strengthen pre-law program
  6. Strengthen the academic climate and the first-year experience by continuing to develop living-learning communities
    1. Develop and implement plan to meet the immediate needs of existing communities, such as space and budget, and obtain action plans from all current living-learning communities
    2. Arrange for several living-learning communities to have a common GST 110 class in fall 2006
    3. Send team to a national conference to learn more about effective living-learning communities
    4. Work with the joint deans to develop long-term plans for substantive upgrades to existing living-learning communities and the development of new and creative living-learning communities
  7. Prepare for and conduct a campus-wide academic summit in fall 2006. Create an “academic action plan” for enhancing academic challenge at Elon
  8. Begin re-envisioning program for students’ transition to life post-Elon
    1. Appoint all-University task force to re-envision senior year experience
    2. Maximize effectiveness of the Career Center
    3. Review and enhance senior year meetings & celebrations
    4. Coordinate with deans, departments, and Career Center to bring alumni back to campus
  9. Develop proposal for Academic Service Learning Scholars

Competitive Admissions

  1. Enroll 1,275 freshmen reflecting Elon values, especially academic ability, diversity, and a well-rounded high school experience that fits our style of engaged learning. The majority of these students will fall within an SAT math and critical reading range of 1140-1250, with an average of 1210
  2. Enroll new students in each graduate program to meet the following goals:
    1. DPT: Enroll 36 students in January 2007
    2. MBA: Enroll 50 students in AY 2006-2007
    3. M.Ed.: Enroll 30 students in summer 2006
    4. J.D.: Enroll 100 students with average 153 LSAT for class entering 2007

Strong, Supportive, Diverse Community

  1. Develop an environmental sustainability plan
  2. Pursue methods of growing attendance at athletic events—working with Phoenix Phanatics and on- and off-campus community constituents
  3. Develop a new five-year Gender Equity Plan for the athletics department
  4. More fully engage alumni in the life of the University
    1. Conduct a survey of alumni to assess their attitudes, priorities for services, and preferences for giving to the University, and develop plans in response to survey results
    2. Develop and begin to implement a plan for the young alumni program and create a Young Alumni Council
    3. Design and launch a comprehensive Web-based social network, allowing alumni, students, parents, friends and faculty/staff to create personal profiles, create and join groups and network extensively within the Elon community
  5. Develop a flu pandemic response plan
  6. Enhance partnership with Alamance-Burlington School System to support Cummings High School and develop college readiness programs for at-risk students
  7. Organize conversations among faculty, staff, and students about fostering community

Outstanding Campus With Latest Technology

  1. Complete renovation/construction
    1. Renovate Center for the Arts for dance studios
    2. Renovate Stewart Fitness Center
    3. Move Powell House (sociology)
    4. Renovate Elon West for arts
    5. Complete Koury Business Center
    6. Furnish and equip School of Law interior
    7. Construct new dining hall
    8. Construct two new residence halls (A & B)
    9. Add parking spaces and widen tram path
    10. Renovate Long
    11. Construct Academic Village Pavilion 4 (religious studies and philosophy
    12. Construct Academic Village Pavilion 5 (Center for Teaching and Learning)
    13. Install soccer field lights
    14. Improve South Campus fields
  2. Complete planning
    1. Academic Village Rotunda building
    2. Law School annex
    3. Railroad pedestrian tunnel
    4. New intramural and club sports playing fields
    5. Field lights for football, softball, recreation
    6. Renovation of Alamance 2nd and 3rd floors
  3. Begin developing new campus information technology plan
  4. Implement Datatel Release 18

Resources to Support Excellence

  1. Raise at least $14 million cash in total annual institutional support, including $1.6 million in the Elon Fund/Parents Fund
  2. Implement the new Phoenix Club to increase external support for athletic scholarships; raise $640,000 in cash
  3. Establish a comprehensive development program for the new Elon School of Law and raise $100,000 in annual gifts
  4. Prepare for and launch the leadership phase of the next comprehensive campaign
    1. Conduct feasibility study
    2. Establish working campaign goal and secure Board of Trustee approval
    3. Begin soliciting gifts for the leadership phase and secure one-quarter to one-third of the leadership goal in gifts and future commitments
    4. Ensure policies, procedures, and systems are implemented to support campaign
    5. Create effective communications in support of the campaign

Student-Centered Environment

  1. Promote personal responsibility and community well-being as core values of the Elon student culture
    1. Complete work of Honor Code committee; implement honor code ceremony for class of 2010 and articulate academic and social standards for maintaining leadership positions, scholarships and membership in special programs
    2. Implement recommendations of Low-Risk Alcohol Use Committee
    3. Develop policies and educational modules on hazing and risk management for all student organizations and athletic teams
    4. Continue development of sexual assault awareness and response plan; improve first year orientation programming, develop male programming group, investigate peer educator networks
    5. Implement recommendations of Task Force on Technology, Ethics and Personal Responsibility (TEPR)
  2. Plan a large informal space on campus property for students, to be used for dances, programs, and social gatherings
  3. Plan and begin addition of quiet study and community spaces in residence halls

Strategic Planning

  1. Develop a plan that will lead to an increased institutional national reputation
  2. Plan for and conduct a successful summer 2007 ANAC Conference
  3. Introduce the recently adopted internal audit program
  4. Produce update of NewCentury@Elon Phase II and disseminate to community