Goal 5: Attract, retain, support, and develop excellent staff.

Objectives:

• Attract, retain, motivate, and develop outstanding administrative and support staff with competitive salaries and benefits.
• Provide on-going opportunities for professional development, training, and continuing education.
• Use periodic reviews and individualized development plans to foster employee growth and development.
• Provide an environment which is friendly, safe, and nurturing for all constituents.
• Increase diversity of staff with emphasis on recruitment and retention of women and ethnic minorities.
• Encourage participation in staff shared governance.
• Add staff commensurate with growth in faculty and research.
• Explore the possibility of promotional ladders for staff.

Goal 6: Provide Comprehensive Information Services.

Subgoal 1: Develop a library appropriate to a research university.

Objectives:

• Evaluate and enhance library acquisitions.
• Address space deficit with short- and long-term solutions.
• Develop endowments for specific library collections.
• Increase access to information through interlibrary cooperation, automation, and electronic delivery programs.

Subgoal 2: Sustain a computing and telecommunications infrastructure appropriate to a research university.

Objectives:

• Develop and implement a long range plan for telecommunications and computing.
• Enhance capability to deliver distance education programming.
• Continue to modernize the telecommunications infrastructure.
• Continue improvement and enhancement of electronic information systems for effective management.
• Provide user education for the university community.
• Enhance capability to deliver integrated computing and educational technologies.
• Improve coordination, training, professional development, and back-up for systems administrators.

Goal 7: Develop the MTU Campus and Continuously Maintain the Physical Plant.

Objectives:

• Maintain a physical plant which is safe, efficient, attractive, and accessible.
• Periodically review and update the campus master plan.
• Build and occupy the Dow Environmental Sciences and Engineering Building.
• Renovate vacated space created by moves to the Dow Building.
• Expand the U. J. Noblet Forestry Building.
• Build and occupy the performing arts center.
• Plan and obtain external funding for a new science building and library addition.
• Catalog and prioritize additional space needs.
• Update teaching laboratories, research equipment, and classroom equipment.
• Strengthen and expand our activities directed at improving campus environmental safety and regulations compliance.
• Establish multi-year maintenance and renewal budget.

Goal 8: Provide a Stable Financial Environment and Enhance Resource Acquisition.

Objectives:

• Enhance the planning and budgeting cycle based on a continual process of assessment and development.
• Secure state allocations that enable the university to pay competitive salaries and that provide an appropriate funding base for the university's programs.
• Increase public and private funding to provide merit- and need-based support for undergraduate and graduate students.
• Strive for more rapid growth in funds from sources such as research grants and contracts, private fund raising, distance education, summer programming, retail operations, etc.
• Increase student tuition and fees at modest rates that will assure continued access.
• Improve operating methods and programs to achieve maximum efficiency and economy in managing university resources.
• Enhance alumni and constituent relations.
• Develop a plan for systematically addressing financial exigency/retrenchment issues.
• Develop a five-year budget plan.

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