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MARYVILLE COLLEGES BICENTENNIAL AND BEYOND STRATEGIC PLAN

RENEWING OURSTRENGTH 20132019

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BUT THEY THAT WAIT UPON THE LORD

SHALL RENEW THEIR STRENGTH;

THEY SHALL MOUNT UP WITH WINGS AS EAGLES;

THEY SHALL RUN , AND NOT BE WEARY;

AND THEY SHALL WALK ,

AND NOT FAINT .

IsaIah 40:31

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FIERCELY PRACTICAL AND DETERMINEDLY ASPIRATIONAL,

the Renewing Our Strength Strategic Plan or Maryville College

was approved by the Board o Directors on Oct. 18, 2012, and

provides a vision or its bicentennial in 2019. The two major goals

or this period are achieving fnancial stability and ensuring a vitalacademic program that is relevant in its time and place. These goals

are undamental to Maryville College continuing to accomplish its

mission to prepare students or lives o citizenship and leadership.

Connecting the Maryville College o yesterday, today and tomorrow,

this plan reafrms the Colleges belie in the liberal arts as a distinctiveand successul approach to education, the Colleges commitment to

aith and learning, and the Colleges desire to embrace change. One

guiding purpose in this plan is that, in 2019, Isaac Anderson would

both recognize and approve o the College he ounded.

From 2013 to 2019, Maryville College will ocus on ostering theholistic personal development and proessional preparation o its

students in a church-related, residential liberal arts setting.

I encourage you to look over this publication

and see how and where you might get

involved. As always, I welcome yourcomments, questions and ideas.

Dr. William T. Tom Bogart

Maryville College President

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MARYVILLE COLLEGE WILL BE A VIBRANT,

SUSTAINABLE INSTITUTIONjoining the liberal artsand proessional preparation in partnership with others.

In 2019, MaryvIlle CollegewIlldeMonstratesustaInabIlItyIn

everyareaofItslIfe. thIsCoMMItMenttosustaInabIlItywIll

undergIrdthevIbrantInstItutIonallIfeofthe Collegeand

thesurroundIngCoMMunItyandwIllteaChalIfestyleof

sustaInabIlItytoourstudents.

Financial sustainability goals include:

Serving a student body o 1,300 and reporting a reshman-to-sophomoreretention rate o at least 80 percent and a 5-year graduation rate o at

least 60 percent.

Growing the endowment to a minimum o $80 million.

Raising $1.5 million annually or the Maryville Fund and increasing, by10 percent, the number o donors rom all constituencies.

Establishing a Capital Projects Fund that will provide or ongoingmaintenance and contribute to uture construction.

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Environmental sustainability goals include:

Implementing sustainableenvironmental practices thatwill lead to decreased energy

use and increased health o

the College Woods.

Implementing a acilities lie cycle planand integrated campus master plan that

will determine priorities and allow or

ull utilization o acilities.

Vibrant institutional life goals include:

Oering compensation packages or aculty and sta that are consistentwith appropriate regional and national norms.

Funding proessional development opportunities or aculty and sta thatwill enable them to grow as experts and develop new knowledge andskills in their areas o teaching and work.

Increasing the diversity o the Colleges aculty, sta and student body soas to expose the entire campus community to a variety o perspectives.

Encouraging healthy work-lie balance and regular physical activityamong the aculty, sta and students.

In April 2013, Craword House

was awarded LEED Gold

certifcation rom the U.S. Green

Building Council.The house, constructed

in 1876 or proessor

Gideon Craword,

underwent numerous

improvements in

pursuit o LEED, including

the installation o low-E storm

windows, efcient HVAC units,soy-based oam insulation and a

12-panel solar array.

REACHING OUR GOALS

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Maryville College will be a vibrant, sustainable institution

JOINING THE LIBERAL ARTS ANDPROFESSIONAL PREPARATION

in partnership with others.

In 2019, MaryvIlle CollegestudentswIllCapItalIzeon

theIrdeepunderstandIngofthelIberalartsand

voCatIonalexploratIonstosuCCessfullybegInalIfelong

professIonaljourney.

Goals include:

Supporting an innovative,relevant curriculum that joins

the liberal arts and proessional

preparation.

Implementing a developmentaladvising and mentoring

program that cultivates engaged

proessionals and citizens.

Enhancing and expanding

international experiences and improving their accessibility to students.

Providing modern and appropriateacilities and equipment that will support

innovative and relevant curricular and

co-curricular programs.

Supporting an intercollegiate athleticsprogram that maintains the highest

standards o competition while ostering

a balance between in-classroom and on-

feld achievements.

In 2013, college administrators

announced the plans or Maryville

College Works, an initiative

that will require every student to

complete a signifcant, practical

experience beore graduation.

REACHING OUR GOALS

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Maryville College will be a vibrant, sustainable institution

joining the liberal arts and proessional preparationIN PARTNERSHIP WITH OTHERS.

In 2019, MaryvIlle CollegesMutuallysupportIveand

endurIngpartnershIpswIllprovIdeastrongfoundatIon

forInstItutIonalsustaInabIlIty, CoMMunItyandglobal

outreaCh,andaCadeMICandprofessIonaldevelopMent.

Goals include:

Establishing collaborative agreements with educational institutions,nonproft organizations, businesses and other groups or the purposes

o acility sharing, internships, practica, undergraduate research,

proessional development and increased enrollment.

Engaging alumni, riends, oundations and corporations to strengthenphilanthropic support to improve teaching, learning and acilities.

Developing meaningul relationships with the Presbyterian Church(USA) and other aith communities that present a distinctive model o

a church-related college serving a religiously pluralistic student body.

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For more information, visit

maryvillecollege.edu/about/strategicplan

THE MARYVILLE COLLEGE

STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

says, among other things, that the

College is an institution which preparesstudents or a world o uncertainty and

accelerating change. When the Board

o Directors adopted this strategic plan

in October 2012, members were ocused

on this very important part o the

Colleges mission. With the strategic

plan at its oundation, the Queen

o all the highlands will be better

equipped to successully prepare

its students or such an ever-

changing world. And that is a

very good thing.

WAYNE R. KRAMER 74Chairman

Maryville College Board o Directors

MARYVILLE COLLEGES BICENTENNIAL AND BEYOND STRATEGIC PLAN