ACT Accessibility, Completion, & Talent
The Board of Regents (BOR) is focused on three key areas to drive student success:
Accessibility
Expanding pathways to education by broadening talent pipelines and ensuring more students have access to higher learning opportunities.
Accessibility Goals
Completion
Fostering student success by cultivating and developing talent to help students achieve their academic goals.
Completion Goals
Talent
Empowering students to activate their skills and talents for future success in their careers and beyond.
Talent Goals
Common Goals
Accessibility
Expanding pathways to education by broadening talent pipelines and ensuring more students have access to higher learning opportunities.
GOAL 1:
Increase the representation of diverse student populations at our institutions, including, but not limited to, transfers, veterans, non-traditional, and socio-economically disadvantaged students.
GOAL 2:
Expand partnerships with K-12 school systems to provide students with opportunities to earn college credit, while also preparing a diverse range of future educators to meet the state's evolving workforce needs in education.
GOAL 3:
Implement initiatives that enhance the affordability of the educational experience at our institutions.
Completion
Fostering student success by cultivating and developing talent to help students achieve their academic goals.
GOAL 4:
Provide academic and student support services that increase retention, persistence, and completion rates of all students.
GOAL 5:
Implement innovative pedagogical and curricular approaches aimed at reducing time to credential.
GOAL 6:
Create flexible pathways for students to earn credentials as they make progress towards a degree.
Talent
Empowering students to activate their skills and talents for future success in their careers and beyond.
GOAL 7:
Enhance community and industry partnerships to support the integration of applied or experiential learning and/or cocurricular experiences into all academic programs.
GOAL 8:
Offer academic programs and educational experiences that lead to employment or advanced education in students' fields of study and contribute to social mobility.
GOAL 9:
Integrate essential attributes and professional skills (technological literacy, critical thinking, communication, teamwork, global and cultural awareness, leadership, professionalism, and appreciation for individual differences) into the curriculum.
Strategic Plans and Priorities of CSCU Institutions
Central CT State University
Changing Lives, Building Communities; Central to Connecticut | Strategic Plan 2030
Charter Oak State College
Becoming a Premier Online Workforce College | Strategic Plan- 2023- 2028
CT State Community College
Transitional Strategic Plan 2023-2025
Eastern CT State University
Strategic Plan- 2020- 2025
Southern CT State University
Leading the Way: 2023 – 2028 Strategic Plan
Western CT State University
Western Rising- A New Direction for the Future | Strategic Plan 2024-2030
Next Steps
Engage
Our presidents will begin engaging with each institution’s senate to review the identified goals. Together, they will develop the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) needed to track and measure progress on these goals at the institutional level.
Meet
The system office team will also meet with the Student Advisory Committee (SAC) and the Faculty Advisory Committee (FAC) to ensure input and representation from across the system.
Review
Once this process is complete, the Presidents' Council, in collaboration with the system office team, will review each institution’s KPIs and determine a consolidated KPI for each systemwide goal under the ACT Framework. This will result in a total of 9 systemwide goals and 9 corresponding KPIs.
Finalize
Our objective is to finalize the systemwide goals and their associated KPIs by November for review by the Board of Regents (BOR).
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Coming soon