Kentucky State University's Strategic Plan "Racing Toward KSU's Brightest Future" 2016-2021 includes five goals. The Goals are:

Goal 1 Enhance Student Enrollment, Improve Student Life and Engagement, and Improve Student Advising and Career Development.

Goal 2 Achieve Academic Excellence Across all Programs and Colleges, Increase Student General Education Skills, Degree Persistence, Career Readiness and Graduation Rates.

Goal 3 Increase the University's Financial Strength and Operational Efficiency.

Goal 4 Enhance the Impact of External Relations and Development.

Goal 5 Obtain Maximum Institutional Effectiveness through the Implementation of a Continuous Quality Improvement Process framed within the seven Baldrige Performance Excellence in Education criteria.

Goals, Objectives, Timelines for Deployment and Results, and Responsibilities

Under the President's direction, KSU's senior leaders are responsible for the data analysis that is required to accomplish each goal as well as the tactical deployment of each objective assigned to them. Each senior leader will work with the appropriate KSU committees, departments, colleges, and business units, ensuring shared governance where warranted. Each Senior leader will routinely report progress to the University President and Cabinet colleagues. Each senior leader will provide quarterly progress reports to the President, these reports will be utilized to develop biannual reports to the Board of Regents and the campus community. A table of progress report due dates can be found in Appendix B.

For simplicity, a legend was utilized to code the individual, or group who is responsible for developing and deploying each tactic as well as those responsible for reviewing and approving tactics and results. The legend can be found in the table below.

Group, Position, Committee Responsible for Tactics, Approval and Results Responsibility Code

Board of Regents BOR

Board of Regents - Academic Affairs Committee BOR - AAC

Board of Regents - Student Affairs Committee BOR - SAC

Board of Regents - Finance and Audit Committee BOR - F&AC

Board of Regents - External Relations and Development Committee BOR - ER&DC

University President UP

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