• WAYNE STATE
• PERU STATE
• CHADRON STATE

n      Provide a stimulating, caring, and enriching learning experience.

n      Meet the changing needs of our students and the state.

n      Assure financial, programmatic, and geographic access to NSCS institutions.

n      Maintain affordable tuition and fees.

n      Foster cooperative ventures among NSCS institutions and other agencies and organizations.

n      Emphasize participation in public service.

n      Recruit and retain quality faculty and staff.

Vision Statement 

Chadron State College, Peru State College, and Wayne State College, along with the System Office and the Board of Trustees constitute the Nebraska State College System.

Working together with a unity of purpose:

n      We will become a premier system of state colleges that will be recognized as center for intellectual growth, cultural enlightenment, and economic development.

n      We will serve as a model of collaborative educational excellence, setting standards for strengthening individuals and communities through knowledge, service, leadership, and global understanding, while paving the way for future generations. 

Key Priorities and Strategies

Priority: Educational Excellence Throughout System

STRATEGIES:

1. Maintain academic integrity and achievement
2. Recognize and reward educational excellence
3. Assure graduates feel confident and know their fields
4. Invest in human resources
5. Maintain broad-based liberal education, comprehensive offerings

Suggested Goals:
a.       Establish a professional development center
b.      Keep technology updated
c.       Support research
d.      Facilitate system-wide discipline-based meetings to talk about new initiatives
e.       Support system-wide faculty development
f.        Clarify policy of best use of adjunct faculty
g.       Retain smaller quality programs and classes
h.       Provide money for recognition of faculty and staff excellence
i.         Utilize institutional memory and encourage continuity
j.        Strengthen programs for leadership, global connectedness, service learning
k.      Develop a clear policy about how we use retention as an indicator of our success
l.         Streamline the process for creating new programs

Priority:  Financial Strength of the System

STRATEGIES:

1. Strengthen state funding commitment and continued support
2. Secure public and private funding sources
3. Increase enrollment and retention
4. Promote creative statewide funding programs

Suggested Goals:
a.       Grow endowments
b.      Strengthen connections with legislators
c.       Maintain facilities and improve physical environment
d.      Share faculty, courses, and resources
e.       Make faculty accessible to provide effective academic advising
f.        Implement a system-wide survey to discern students needs
g.       Create increased awareness of all three state colleges in urban centers and state-wide
h.       Continue to make faculty a key in retention
i.         Award additional scholarships
j.        Consider new post-grad programs
k.      Increase number of out-of-state students
l.         Improve technology for students, particularly for applications and enrollment

Priority:  Greater System Prominence

STRATEGIES:

1. Emphasize a system of three colleges
2. Identify areas of excellence and promote those
3. Market system’s distinctiveness
4. Increase collaboration among the colleges

Suggested Goals:
a.       Communicate that many graduates stay in Nebraska
b.      Publicize collaborative efforts and programs
c.       Communicate that a colleges education is an investment rather than an expense
d.      Develop user-friendly, attractive websites to make a positive first impression
e.       Market the value of a four-year degree - student stories
f.        Encourage student body to meet with full board at meetings
g.       Implement a Student Enrichment Exchange Program