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Goal #1 – Sustain and Enhance the Quality of All Academic Programs

1.1 Support excellence in instruction and student learning
- Increased funding for laboratory equipment, software and other instructional equipment by 100%.
- Increased funding for faculty to attend workshops to improve instructional performance and knowledge.
1.2 Continue to develop and maintain a world-class faculty and staff
- Increased salaries of all faculty & staff to at least 90% of CUPA or national comparator.
1.3 Strengthen Montana Tech's role in the development and application of the technologies of the twenty-first century and the core programs that support them
- Developed new programs, new options, or revisions of programs
1.4 Develop the curriculum to address the nation's economic needs as articulated by industry and national professional societies.
- Evaluated and continued to address accreditation requirements for all programs

2.1 Establish a comprehensive long-term approach to marketing and institutional research
- Established an office of institutional research and a director position
2.2 Market the institution comprehensively in select markets
- Created and implemented a campus-wide marketing plan
2.3 Increase alumni involvement by 5% annually in each of the following: chapters, reunions, membership, volunteering.
- Achieved 5% increase in all areas
2.4 Increase development results
2.5 Grow resources and increase public awareness of service mission
- Increased outreach efforts through additional grants

3.1 Improve faculty success in competitive research and scholarly activity
3.2 Provide student with opportunities to engage in research and technology development
- Funded 5 graduate student research exchanges per year
- Increased the undergraduate research program to 75 participants
3.3 Strengthen the campus research infrastructure
- Increased IDC collections by 25 %
  Increased Federal earmarks to 3 M$/year Developed a fair, equitable and sustainable distribution model
3.4 Expand collaborative research agreements with national and international institutions
- Initiated 5 national exchange agreements
3.5 Identify key new technologies and evaluate opportunities for new research directions.
- Identified and funded two new thrust areas during the 4 year period
3.6 Maintain and improve MBMG’s identity as the geologic and hydrogeologic scientific resource for Montana
- Increased usage of information provided by the MBMG
3.7 Improve MBMG research programs and provide competitive salaries for staff
- Increased the number and quality of research projects and publications
- Attained comparative regional or national salaries
- Removed cap on Ground-Water Assessment Program

4.1 Enhance ongoing support and identifying opportunities to support new and expanding companies
- Students, Faculty, and Staff connected to business/industry/communities. Database developed and monitored to maintain contacts with leaders on a quarterly basis.
- Established new working relationships with economic development and business assistance organizations.
4.2 Provide a central focus at Montana Tech to support regional economic development
- Designated an Economic Development Center (EDC) to interface with economic development boards and authorities.
- Engaged the business community in the establishment of on-going economic development internships for Montana Tech students.
4.3 Increase opportunities for development and support of existing professionals within the community
- Created professional development activities based on input from professional organizations/ societies.
- Developed, marketed and delivered Continuing Education programs for professionals.
4.4 Use flexibility in the development of programs to meet the needs of a changing workforce
- Increased flexibility of required courses. Offered more on-line courses. Expanded evening schedule

5.1 Increase Scholarship Support.
- Increased both the number and amount (over the inflation rate) of scholarships by 5%. Increased the use of Advantage Scholarships by recruiting more out-of-state students into excess capacity programs.
5.2 Increase the diversity of students.
- Engaged alumni in the recruitment of new students nationally and internationally. Utilize the Office Technical Outreach to recruit and retain Native American and other underrepresented students. Offered English as a 2nd Language Program (ELI) on campus.
5.3 Develop more national and international exchange opportunities.
- Identified, developed, publicized, and implemented formal exchange opportunities for undergraduates, graduate, faculty, and staff with both national and international institutions whose research and curricular offerings compliment and extend our own.
5.4 Increase educational opportunities through improved testing, advising, and placement.
- Examined all incoming student’s math and writing abilities and advise and place those students who are not ready for course work in their identified programs into the appropriate remedial courses.
5.5 Increase opportunities for access to alternative delivery of education.
- Identified, developed, implemented, and marketed and in more flexible time formats.
5.6 Provide Cultural Opportunities for Montana Tech students
- Identified, developed, implemented, and marketed and in more flexible time formats.

6.1 Improve recruiting effectiveness
- Implemented a campus-wide marketing plan
- Improving transition rates between recruited, applied and enrolled
- Explored the impact of differential admissions into specific programs
6.2 Increase retention rates from enrolled to attended through goal achievement
- Developed 1st year experience program
- Increased coordination of new programming in response to Student Satisfaction inventory and co-curricular programming
6.3 Sustain excellent placement percentages, increasing career-related placement to 91% by the 2012 graduating class
- Achieved incremental increases developed by Career Services Office