Teaching & Cluster Model
Goal Statement: Ignite our students’ curiosity by offering PSU’s transformative model of integrated teaching and learning and, by example, reimagine how we educate our students.
- Objective 1.1: Create Infrastructure and Offerings for Cluster Majors.
- Objective 1.2: Develop Cluster Learning as PSU’s coherent and valued pedagogical approach.
- Objective 1.3: Foster cross-program collaboration to increase interdisciplinary experience and team-based learning.
- Objective 1.4: Foster peer-to-peer learning opportunities for faculty.
Student Success
Goal Statement: Promote student success holistically, by centering student need and facilitating pathways to fulfillment in learning, career, and life.
- Objective 2.1: Create progressive, student-oriented academic pathways and mechanisms to foster success in courses and career.
- Objective 2.2: Improve students’ mental health, safety, social growth, and overall wellbeing.
- Objective 2.3: Promote additional student employment opportunities on campus, professional development programs, and networking opportunities for future employment.
- Objective 2.4: Improve student retention and persistence by 2% each year. Graduation Rates and Retention Dashboard
- Objective 2.5: Improve campus resources, living spaces, and classroom building to create a greater sense of community and access.
Diversity & Community
Goal Statement: Foster an inclusive community that attracts and supports diverse members and develops equitable approaches to education.
- Objective 3.1: Establish a successful IDEA Center that engages the campus community. IDEA Center Website
- Objective 3.2: 15% increase in undergraduate underrepresented-minority students. PSU Diversity Dashboard
- Objective 3.3: 5% improvement in retention of undergraduate underrepresented-minority students.
- Objective 3.4: 3% improvement of fall to spring persistence for first year underrepresented-minority students.
- Objective 3.5: 6% improvement in 6-year graduation rates for undergraduate underrepresented-minority students.
- Objective 3.6: Increase the percentage of underrepresented-minority faculty and staff by 3%. PSU Diversity Dashboard
- Objective 3.7: Improve the campus climate for diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Sustainable University
Goal Statement: Develop an agile, financially sustainable public university with a responsive relationship to the workforce and community needs of our region and New Hampshire as a whole.
- Objective 4.1: Align academic programs with the needs of the 21st-century student. Grants Dashboard by Cluster
- Objective 4.2: Annually recruit a diverse, robust incoming undergraduate class who will thrive at PSU. Enrollment Dashboard
- Objective 4.3: Increase graduate enrollments and programmatic offerings to meet the needs of the New Hampshire workforce and the world.
- Objective 4.4: Collaborate with USNH and CCSNH, the local community, and state workforce partners, to increase educational and professional opportunities for prospective and current students.
- Objective 4.5: Create and adapt campus facilities to improve our appearance, environmental sustainability, residential capacity, and operating efficiency while focusing on student needs.
