Mission, Vision, Themes & Goals

The executive leadership team, in collaboration with the Deans, College Senate, and College Council, engaged in a process that gathered input from many individuals and partners to inform the development of the Strategic Plan. The plan outlines the institution’s priorities over the next three years.  
 
SUNY Delhi is committed to annually reviewing progress and updating the plan as needed to ensure that students, faculty, and professional staff excel in a rapidly evolving technological world. To that end, we aspire for our students to absorb key values throughout their experiences – Collaboration, Diversity, Community, Learning, and Determination – to reach their full potential. 
 
Mission: The SUNY Delhi community transforms students' lives by providing accessible, civic-minded, and hands-on education that advances personal and professional growth.
 
Vision: SUNY Delhi puts students at the center of a sustainable applied education that integrates critical thinking in an innovative, inclusive and nurturing community. 
 
Themes:
  • Student Success
  • Sustainability
  • Advancing Personal & Professional Potential
  • Civic-Minded Community
  • Innovation  
Central to SUNY Delhi’s identity is an institutional commitment to fully integrate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) into all areas of the SUNY Delhi experience. As a result, a singular, stand-alone goal for DEI is not included in the strategic plan. Rather, the larger institutional commitment to DEI is the overarching lens through which all themes should be viewed.
 
Similarly, we recognize the important role that alumni and philanthropic partners, both private and public, play in fueling the success of this strategic plan and the future of our college. SUNY Delhi’s alumni are the living embodiment of the college’s values and global impact. 
 
Student Success
SUNY Delhi supports equitable access, opportunity and success for a diverse student population with programs that provide applied skills and critical problem-solving tools.

  • Implement, communicate, and assess a strategic enrollment management plan 
  • Optimize student support services, resources, and systems
  • Promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion across programs and processes
  • Evaluate programmatic offerings to ensure availability of applied learning opportunities
  • Diverse programming is supported by individualized services that follow a student from admittance to career
  • Strengthen the first-year experience
  • Implement and assess academic support programs
  • Provide diverse co-curricular activities that enhance the student experience
Sustainability: Caring for our generation and the next
  • Create new academic programs and partnerships for high needs professions
  • Support existing programs (academic and non-academic) to meet societal and workforce needs
  • Embed health into all aspects of campus culture, across the administration, operations and academic mandates
  • Respect and responsibility to protect our environment
  • Initiate and improve the use of renewable energy and sustainable practices
  • Foster an environment of shared responsibility in caring for the community
  • Collaboration with organizations to meet community educational and workforce needs
  • Strengthen the College’s partnerships to better serve the diverse needs of the region and state
  • Lead health promotion action and collaboration locally and globally
  • Offering fiscally sustainable campus and academic programs
  • Enhance operational alignment and fiscal effectiveness
Advancing Personal & Professional Potential
At SUNY Delhi, staff and faculty best support students through their own professional development. Faculty and staff remain current in their areas of expertise and are educated in the best pedagogical practices. Faculty and staff develop interpersonal skills and treat students and each other with respect, civility, and generosity.
  
  • Provide and support professional development opportunities throughout the span of employment
  • Seek financial and other resources from external and internal sources to support scholarly, creative, and professional endeavors
  • Faculty and staff prepare students for the current and future workplace expectations.
  • Promote and support student research and creative activities
  • Improve student financial literacy
  • Improve career promotion and applied learning opportunities for students across all programs
Civic-Minded Community
Students, faculty, and staff identify what communities they feel a part of. They utilize their talents and the skills they learn at SUNY Delhi to impact those communities. Faculty and staff model how to influence communities and students leave with a sense of being part of something greater than themselves.  

  • Increase opportunities that encourage and develop civic responsibility in the campus community and beyond
  • Cultivate an engaged and inclusive campus culture
  • Promote campus safety and accessibility
Innovation 
SUNY Delhi aspires to be the leading SUNY college of technology that excels in applied education by engaging students and community in experiential learning in a practical and constructive developmental environment. This provides a unique opportunity to learn how to apply critical and creative thinking skills to a variety of social and professional scenarios.

SUNY Delhi strives to identify innovative, pedagogical tools to make education more interactive and engaging.

 

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