Transforming Lives to Change the World
Executive Summary
Mission Statement: Wheaton College provides a transformative liberal arts education for intellectually curious students in a collaborative, academically vibrant residential community that values a diverse world.
Vision 2014: Wheaton College develops global citizens prepared to lead in a complex world. Its transformational learning environment prepares graduates to live purposeful lives, be engaged in their communities, be scientifically and technologically literate, and act effectively to promote change.
Realizing 2014: Wheaton will achieve its 2014 vision by focusing on three strategic priorities supported by three institutional goals. Together they serve as a framework to allocate resources and to inform a major comprehensive campaign.
Strategic Priorities
1. Leading with Connections: The Wheaton education embodies a web of connections across disciplines, across academic and experiential learning, and across lines of difference.
2. Reaching Beyond: Wheaton is dedicated to extending student opportunity and success and enhancing the College's reach and reputation.
3. Demonstrating Success: Wheaton focuses on student learning, development and change, and provides evidence of institutional effectiveness.
Institutional Goals
I. Program: Enhance Intellectual Excellence and Engagement
1.1 Wheaton students learn to approach issues and problem solving from a cross-disciplinary perspective. Through an innovative curriculum incorporating intercultural learning, Wheaton students develop the analytical skills, multiple literacies, and habits of mind and character to be effective in a diverse world.
1.2 Residence life connects students to peers and faculty, exposes them to diverse ideas, and engages them in collaborative and challenging discourse.
1.3 Wheaton students have multiple opportunities to participate in curricular and co-curricular experiences both on and off campus. Students, faculty, and staff collaborate with members of the surrounding communities and the network of alums to create a rich and thriving environment.
II. Facilities: Develop Select New/Renovated Facilities
2.1 The renovated Science Center enables activity across disciplines and will become another locus for student-faculty engagement.
2.2 Technology on campus is ubiquitous and flexible, enriching and enhancing the teaching and learning process throughout the college.
2.3 New and renovated residence halls provide a variety of physical living and learning environments to enhance the Wheaton experience.
III. People: Support Creativity and Innovation
3.1 Wheaton recruits and retains an intellectually curious and broadly diverse student population. The College is committed to increasing need-based financial aid and continuing its merit scholarship program to support enrollment goals.
3.2 Wheaton successfully recruits and retains a diverse faculty and staff committed to engaging students in ways that inspire their highest potential. Wheaton faculty will be national leaders in re-discovering and re-defining the relationship between scholarly/creative work and teaching in the liberal arts.
3.3 Wheaton alums and an expanding circle of friends are engaged with and support the College with their talents and their resources.
Affirmed by the Board of Trustees on May 19, 2006
