Social Responsibility

We share responsibility for each other and are committed to providing opportunities for the participation in the economic, political and cultural life of our local, state, regional, national and global communities. We are sensitive to our surrounding community; therefore, we recognize the value of integrating classroom learning with the community experience. Our commitment is to provide leadership and to establish partnerships for addressing community and workforce needs and to make a positive difference in the city of Frankfort, the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the world.

Guiding Principles

Kentucky State University is committed to student success, broadly defined in terms of high levels of learning, engagement, persistence, graduation, and satisfaction. The Co-curricular and the curricular will strive to deliver academic support and student services programs to ensure that students perform well academically, culturally, emotionally, and socially. KSU will strive to have the highest effort in high expectations, high rigor, and high input toward student outcomes. The KSU Strategic Enrollment Management Plan and its associated Strategic Plan “Race Toward KSU’s Brightest Future” provide the principles for enrollment planning, management, and decision making. The values and goals articulated in these planning documents embody the following principles to guide our efforts of comprehensive enrollment management:

1. Recruit, admit, enroll, retain, and graduate a diverse student population.
2. Students, their learning and their success are at the heart of Kentucky State University and central to all that we do.
3. A strategic enrollment management process is dependent on people and strategies and it must be able to be executed.
4. The entire campus must be engaged in its execution.
5. The goals must align with the institution's mission, vision and values statements.
6. Budgets must align with the plan.
7. Relevant data will be collected and used when setting institutional enrollment goals and strategies.
8. Maintain a robust 21st Century access and success mission.
9. Ensure satisfactory student progress to degree.
10. Preserve the character and distinctiveness of a residential Historically Black College and University (HBCU).
11. Commit to the academic success of all of our students.
12. Become the first choice institution for 80% of the entering student body.
13. Align resources to a sustainable enrollment.

The KSU SEM will:

• Create and implement a consistent, defined, and clearly communicated enrollment process for students.

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