Goal: Student Success - Provide distinctive learning experiences that foster lifelong success

Offer academic programming that successfully increases student learning

• Expand the depth and quality of the educational experience
• Create course-based bridges to success
• Strengthen the Helen Hardin Honors Program
• Expand the use of technology to enhance instruction and learning

Increase and promote academic programming that critically engages cultural/social/intercultural differences

• Increase faculty and staff involvement with diversity programming
• Incorporate the rich diversity of the University into the curriculum

Enhance university-wide undergraduate and graduate recruitment efforts

• Target recruiting and capacity for "high need" disciplines
• Expand tuition-paying graduate enrollments
• Target recruitment of special populations
• Expand modes for delivering academic programs
• Enhance affordability through financial aid and restructuring tuition

Increase student persistence and timely graduation

• Enhance Academic Advising
• Continue to expand special persistence programming
• Increase student engagement with the University
• Expand Educational Support Programming (ESP)

Enrich educational experience through regional, national and international engagement

• Build student success programs based on the advantages of being in Memphis, the “Memphis Extras”
• Expand engaged scholarship and community service projects

Strengthen student connections to the University community

• Enhance campus connectedness through intentional physical design
• Increase the number of students participating in key co-curricular activities and programs
• Increase graduate assistantships and student employment and internship opportunities on campus

Emphasize learning experiences that develop students and alumni into leaders in their professions and communities

• Expand career preparation programming and participation
• Expand leadership programming