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Dec 03, 2024
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2021 - 2023 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
The Bleuprint
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Mission Statement
True to its heritage, Dillard University’s mission is to produce graduates who excel, become world leaders and are broadly educated, culturally aware, and concerned with improving the human condition. Through a highly personalized and learning-centered approach, Dillard’s students are able to meet the competitive demands of a diverse, global and technologically advanced society.
Dillard University Strategic Plan 2015-2018
Strategic Cornerstone: Reconnect
Strategic Pillar - The Dillard University Community (1)
- Identify the core values of Dillard University
- Identify ways in which the core values can be exemplified through the University’s activities and programs
- Review and update mission statement
- Frame the mission statement in a way to increase institutionalization of the mission into the University’s activities
Strategic Pillar - Dillard and the church (2)
- Openly embrace relatedness to United Methodist Church and United Church of Christ
- Develop local partnerships with a diversity of denominations and faiths
Strategic Pillar - Dillard history and traditions (3)
- To Identify and document key traditions of Dillard University
- Develop vehicles to educate and share Dillard history and traditions
Strategic Pillar - Creating great stories that spread (4)
- Create a user-friendly and updated website
- Create permanent exhibit showing Dillard’s past, present and future with traveling components and artifacts
- Strengthen DU’s Branding Through Vocal Faculty & Staff Experts
Strategic Cornerstone: Renew
Strategic Pillar - The Dillard Student (5)
- Recruit and enroll students who fit Dillard profile for mutual success, shaped around key demographics
- Define and implement a unique Dillard undergraduate experience
Strategic Pillar - Dillard workforce (6)
- Develop a position statement for all applicants/ recruits that explains what kind of person will be successful at Dillard, including questions to match their values and our reality
- Develop a healthy balance of faculty with teaching and research capabilities
Strategic Cornerstone: Realize
Strategic Pillar - Signature Programs (7)
- Identify signature academic programs
- Build signature programs
Strategic Pillar - The Successful Student (8)
- Improve career readiness of students
- Create an Effective Post-Graduation Assessment Program
Strategic Pillar - 21st Century Teaching & Learning (9)
- Identify and secure resources to implement 21st century learning (defined as an educational pedagogy that utilizes technology to deliver core academic skills instruction, using real-world and project-based methods for 21st century students)
- Launch 21st century strategies
Strategic Pillar - Quality of Life (10)
- Develop a campus culture that understands college costs, works to manage those costs, understand the value of the Dillard experience, and works to offer a high quality, affordable experience
- Strengthen the on campus experience for students
- Strengthen quality of life for faculty and staff
Strategic Cornerstone: Refresh
Strategic Pillar - Facilities & Grounds (11)
- Strengthen physical infrastructure
- Develop a campus culture of physical plant pride
Strategic Pillar - Alumni & Private Support (12)
- Increase external funding provided for student aid by $1 million per year
- Secure $1 million per year from alumni with at least a 25% giving rate
- Increase alumni engagement
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