Strategic Priorities
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2015-2020
Denison University educates and inspires students to be autonomous thinkers, discerning moral agents, and engaged citizens.
Strategic Plan Goal
Denison University will strengthen its position as a top tier liberal arts college by deepening student learning in ways that enhance student enrollment, student outcomes, and institutional visibility.
Strategic Priorities
1. Expand the Curriculum
- Develop new academic majors rooted in the liberal arts
- Invest in the arts
- Infuse global experiences throughout the entire education
- Expand Advising Circles as a focal point of the First- Year Program
2. Create the gold standard in professional exploration and readiness
- Develop a new team-based approach to career exploration
- Engage alumni and parents
- Launch best-in-class programs and expand internships and summer research
- Recapture January and May for professional-skills seminars
- Offer post-graduation support
3. Focus Co-curricular efforts on innovation, diversity and wellness
- Establish an innovation lab to create strong programs in civic education
- Enhance our wellness approach to residential living
- More deeply embrace all aspects of diversity in our campus community
4. Support faculty and staff as teachers, scholars and mentors
- Launch and leverage the Center for Learning and Teaching
- Re-invigorate the Lisska Center for Scholarly Engagement as a hub for intellectual and scholarly life
- Strengthen the culture of mentorship and coaching
5. Increase institutional visibility
- Develop Denison’s brand narrative
- Educate, excite and engage faculty, staff, students, alumni and parents as ambassadors of the college
Means
Leverage the relationships that are core to Denison’s DNA in order to accomplish these goals.

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