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Berea College

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<li class="li1">Emphasize the importance of belonging, meaning, and mattering, through actions as well as words</li>
<li class="li1">Improve counseling, health, and support services</li>
<li class="li1">Launch new trainings (acting on Campus Climate Survey results)</li>
<li class="li1">Create outdoor connections and joy campus</li>
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1. Wellness, Support, Belonging within a Beloved Community

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<li class="li1">Connect academic, labor, and co-curricular experiences</li>
<li class="li1">Create collaborative, efficient student success teams of advisors and mentors</li>
<li class="li1">Emphasize academic excellence achieved through the liberal arts, including Berea-unique forms of active, applied, and aspirational learning</li>
<li class="li1">Foster understanding of Berea opportunities via student communication tools and practices</li>
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2. Liberal Arts, Academic Excellence, Labor, Career Preparation

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<li class="li1">Define and launch Berea’s Pinnacle Experience&#8211;our unique four-year student journey</li>
<li class="li1">Leverage Berea’s campus sites (ex: farm, forest) and partnerships</li>
<li class="li1">Encourage engagement with centers, clubs, ensembles, athletics, and more</li>
<li class="li1">Design “immersive” summer or semester experiences</li>
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3. Uniquely Berean Sites & Spaces, Experiences & Activities

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<li class="li1">Employ effective mediation of internal conflicts (such as through an ombuds structure)</li>
<li class="li1">Encourage opportunities that promote faculty/staff/student connection and coalition-building</li>
<li class="li1">Nurture a culture of shared governance, accountability, and impartial love</li>
<li class="li1">Promote career growth and leadership opportunities that facilitate a culture of impartial love</li>
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4. Culture of Impartial Love

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<li>Create a culture that respects work/life balance, values being “alive in work,” and includes time for thought, reflection, joy, and fulfillment</li>
<li>Reduce silo-ing and busy-ness across campus by creating more intentional time for collaboration</li>
<li>Enact workplace equity, such as through holistic auditing of job descriptions</li>
<li>Increase operational awareness relating to time, planning, execution, assessment processes</li>
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5. Work/Life Berea Balance

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<li>Continue to engage deeply with Appalachian communities</li>
<li>Value and strengthen our alumni networks</li>
<li>Coordinate efforts to maximize student engagement with regional communities</li>
<li>Elevate community voice and ensure collaborative planning with community partners </li>
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6. Service and Outreach to City & Region, Alumni & Friends

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<li>Invent next phase of Berea’s unique student financial aid/support model</li>
<li>Determine current enrollment goals and admissions strategy</li>
<li>Improve faculty/staff compensation</li>
<li>Maintain careful stewardship of endowment</li>
<li>Center philanthropy on meaningful donor and alumni relationships</li>
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7. Financial Stability via Endowment, Financial Aid, Enrollment, Compensation, Philanthropy

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<li>Develop new campus Master Plan for our natural/built environment</li>
<li>Ensure cutting-edge and back-up Information Technology structures</li>
<li>Update and expand ecological sustainability efforts, recognizing climate change pressures</li>
<li>Integrate Continuous Improvement initiatives across campus</li>
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Our Strategic Framework