Recognizing UMSL as a traditional campus for all types of students, optimize student recruitment and retention while providing an accessible and value-based education. Focus on specific strategies and initiatives that increase student recruitment, retention and student success for a diverse set of learners.
Continue to build on UMSL’s status as a premier public university for undergraduate, graduate and global students. Capitalize on first-year, regional, transfer, adult and global student markets while making UMSL attractive to a broader population – academically, co-curricular, environmentally, visually and inclusively.
Provide financial transparency for students while being a top performer in social mobility. Look for ways to reduce or remove barriers for students of various populations to apply, enroll and succeed as students.
Provide transformative learning experiences by fostering innovation, service, and research. Develop and embrace innovative, modern pedagogy through experiential learning that is delivered in flexible learning platforms.
Foster a campus environment that creates resilient, adaptable, ambitious, purposeful, and engaged citizens. Support students in creating lifelong healthy habits and positive mental well-being through comprehensive programs and services.
Ensure long-term success for students through collaborative efforts to increase persistence and retention. Make access to retention supports available from confirmation through graduation.
Define a target student market that distinguishes UMSL as the destination for working adults wishing to complete their degrees, reskill, upskill and advance earnings through industry-sponsored tuition and other payment models toward increasing enrollment.
Support the faculty and staff engaged in the recruitment and retention efforts with professional development and by identifying and implementing best practices. Identify ways to coordinate efforts across units with the student experience.
