The twelve goals and correlated action steps North Central has identified as essential to fulfill its mission and meet the demands of Christian education in the 21st Century:
Academic Quality
- Create robust growth and investment in online and graduate education by launching new academic programing
- Unbundle the 4-year degree into credit-bearing and non-credit bearing certificates
Deliver seamless educational opportunities for transfer and degree completion students
- Form new educational partnerships in corporate and non-profit sectors
- Broaden postsecondary enrollment options (PSEO) and early college program offerings
- Serve our local and global communities through educational outreach
- Implement a holistic onboarding program for new faculty
- Launch faculty development program to support excellence in teaching, scholarship, service, and spiritual leadership
Student Experience
- Develop and assess spiritual life outcomes for an NCU graduate
- Create a disciple-making framework by focusing on increased biblical literacy and connections to co-curricular ministry opportunities
- Build continuity of spiritual life with our online student community
- Implement recruiting strategies and enrollment tracking to ensure roster goals are being met
- Create a Rams network that places an emphasis on spiritual growth, academic success, internships, and job placement for student athletes
- Form new athletic facility partnerships across the Twin Cities
- Improve student wellness opportunities and access for all students
- Provide comprehensive career readiness programming
- Cultivate greater belonging through community connections
Institutional Culture
- Effectively connect our Pentecostal heritage to our present-day experience
- Create a series of meaningful community building events
- Design an intentional pathway for hiring, developing, and retaining a more diverse work force
- Provide theological clarity, training, and an institutional blueprint that fosters diversity and human flourishing
- Offer a competitive compensation package to all employees
- Develop a wellness culture to promote better mental and physical health
- Promote and resource staff professional development
Resourcing the future
- Explore a new educational economy
- Address long term affordability issues
- Construct our new science and student union building
- Invest in new technologies for innovative educational delivery
- Diversify and expand NCU’s donor base
- Maximize revenue generation opportunities