SIMMONS
core purpose:
Transformative learning that
links passion with lifelong purpose
Build a vibrant student-centered
educational community that inspires
leadership & lifelong engagement
Envision Simmons as a university with
a global perspective built on research,
scholarship & teaching excellence
E-1
Re-imagine our
curricula & the role
of co-curricular life
E-3
Become a
recognized expert on
transformative
E-2
E-4
learning
Integrate
Encourage
experiential learning
research, scholarship
& career exploration
& cross-discipline
across
collaboration
programs
Promote a student-centered culture
of learning, leadership, and making
a difference
S-1
Continuously
improve student
experience & create a
culture of lifelong
learning
S-2
Build
collaborations
across stakeholder
groups
S t r at e g y M a p
S-3
Develop
marketing strategy
for all
constituencies
Attain & retain financial strength
F-1
Explore &
increase new
revenue streams
O-2
Champion gender,
inclusion, and
diversity
S-5
Build connections
& partnerships
with diverse
constituencies
Create. Innovate.
F-3
Assess all
opportunities
with financial
standards
F-2
Develop strategic
partnerships
O-1
Tackle structural
obstacles to
collaboration
S-4
Affirm Simmons
commitment to
women-centered
education
I-2
Cultivate
and reward
creativity
F-4
Decrease role
of tuition
in access
O-3
Build IT/web
infrastructure that
powers growth
I-1
Encourage
and accelerate
innovation
O-4
Seek sustainable
work/life balance for
students, faculty
& staff
I-3
Advance a
culture of
experimentation
O-5
Maintain
our historical
commitment to
women’s
education
O-6
Create
institutional strategies
to capitalize on shifting
demographics
Values:
We are at our best when students are first Preparation for life’s work
Crossing boundaries to create opportunities Collective investment in community
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S-1: Assess and implement
changes to the student
experience such that their
involvement on campus leads
to a desire to be engaged with
the college throughout their
lifetime.
S-2: Identify and leverage
opportunities with internal
and external stakeholders
to increase brand awareness,
alumnae volunteerism,
monetary donations and
employer engagement/
recruitment for students
and alumnae.
S-3: Constantly communicate
to all constituencies about the
academic offerings, mission &
spirit of Simmons.
S-4: Simmons will continue
to offer a women-centered
pedagogy and foster a thriving
intellectual community that
promotes gender equality.
S-5: Build strategic relationships to enhance our visibility
in the community, complement
our values, and provide our
students, faculty, staff and
alumnae with valuable curricular
and co-curricular experiences.
SI M M O N S
E-1: Identify curricular, extracurricular, and integrated
opportunities to provide high
impact learning experiences
that will deepen students’
understanding of their role
in their local, global and or
professional communities.
E-2: Define program specific
experiential outcomes that
require students to apply
theoretical concepts and to
reflect on how theory can
inform practice and practice
can reform theory.
F-1: Explore new methods
of delivering current and
new course offerings while
minimizing burden on existing
courses.
F-2: Identify partners that will
complement our strengths,
benefit from our expertise, and
provide access to new markets
and a broader student base
which will ultimately increase
our knowledge, capabilities, and
our bottom line.
I-1: Demonstrate innovative
thinking and strategies in
shaping flexible, responsive
structures for innovators. Work
to develop processes that yield
quick turnover and that assess
and monitor effectiveness in a
variety of ways.
I-2: Identify ways to build time
into the work-week, faculty
activities, staff and administrative
responsibilities. Find ways to
notice and reward innovations
across functions and practice.
E-3: Define transformative
learning in terms of current
theory and best practices.
Highlight and disseminate
transformative learning
pedagogies, experiences,
assignments, practitioners
within and beyond Simmons.
E-4: Value and reward research,
scholarship, writing for publication as well as cross-disciplinary
thinking & collaboration that
accents teaching as forwardlooking, all around excellent,
and exceptionally relevant for
career employment.
F-3: Assess the financial
viability of vetted and approved
opportunities by creating a
process of initial and follow-up
evaluations.
F-4: Increase the accessibility
of a Simmons education. Find
ways to decrease the role of
tuition income in meeting
operational costs while
improving financial stability.
I-3: Embrace the creative
and experimental. Devise
ways to celebrate, to talk about
experiments undertaken, to
set expectations around
experimentation in performance
evaluations, and to note “noble
failures.”
O-1: Prioritize curricular and
administrative obstacles to joint
endeavors. Identify and implement solutions that facilitate
collaboration across the college.
O-2: Build and sustain an
environment that welcomes
and includes diverse students,
faculty and staff. Search for
opportunities to value, respect,
and embrace the varied backgrounds and experiences that
create an inclusive community.
O-3: Develop IT strategic plan.
Re-establish a Technology
Governance infrastructure that
will influence and shape the
Simmons IT strategy.
O-4: Review, benchmark,
develop, and begin the implementation of “best practices”
that start to position Simmons
as a leader in this area.
O-5: Identify and solidify past
and present traditions that
affirm commitment to women’s
education and develop new
best practices, programs and
policies.
S t r a t e g y
o b j e c t iv e s
O-6: Systematically mine
demographic and market data.
Identify trends and exploit
opportunities to strengthen
strategies for admissions,
marketing, curriculum,
programming and service
to best meet the needs of
our changing student.
10/2010