L&AD: Institutional Sustainability
Goal
To achieve long-term sustainability, F&M will ensure that its identity is distinctive and resonates with its markets, and that it makes the highest and best use of all its resources to advance its aspirations.
Objectives
- Continuously review and reconsider the allocation and use of our financial, physical,
and human resources to ensure operational excellence, advance institutional priorities,
and better meet students’ needs.
- Enhance the collection, ownership, distribution, analysis, and use of data to inform
decision-making throughout the College.
- Articulate and strengthen the College’s brand, visibility, and distinctiveness to
advance its aspirations, emphasize the relevance of its programs to core constituents,
and elevate its position in the higher education marketplace.
- Assess and redesign enrollment management and financial aid strategies to effectively
respond to challenges in recruitment, admission environment, and changing demographics.
- Substantially increase the value of the College's endowment to better support F&M’s
aspirations and goals.
- Explore changes to the structure and scheduling of programs, activities, and events,
on and off campus and throughout the calendar year, to be more efficient and effective
in using and building the College’s resources.
- Restore and steward the College’s human and physical resources, infrastructure, and technology in support of a robust and engaging student experience and long-term institutional and environmental sustainability.