TCNJ 2027:
Extending Our Excellence
The transformative power of education to develop critical thinkers, responsible citizens, and lifelong learners and leaders is central to The College of New Jersey’s mission. Through an academic transformation in the early 2000s, TCNJ realized this across its undergraduate programs and limited number of graduate programs. We now have an opportunity to further our public mission by preserving the distinctive educational quality and outcomes long associated with TCNJ and extending such excellence to new audiences. We express this vision in a new strategy for the college, TCNJ 2027: Extending Our Excellence.
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01 Benefit current and future generations of undergraduates
- Transform the general education curriculum
- Integrate career-readiness programs into the curriculum
- Provide more ways for students to develop leadership skills
- Improve housing quality and options
- Expand the TCNJ experience for transfer students
02 Serve new audiences of learners
- Develop graduate and continuing education programs
- Offer more dual and 4+1 degrees
- Provide new modes of instruction
- Grow early college programs
- Enhance academic options in winter and summer sessions
03 Bolster our impact at local, national, and global levels
- Leverage institutional strengths to address community needs
- Build external partnerships
- Expand support for grants and sponsored research
- Maximize community-engaged learning
04 Realize our vision and promise
- Implement We are TCNJ: A Strategy for Inclusive Excellence to increase access and success for students, staff, and faculty from underrepresented and culturally diverse backgrounds; sustain an inclusive and equitable campus environment; and enhance systems, policies, practices, governance, and data to achieve inclusive excellence goals
- Bolster marketing to attract applications, increase visibility, and highlight brand
- Build cultural and physical capacity to achieve strategy goals
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