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Initiate as soon as possible with substantial progress demonstrated over the next three years.
Matching Gift Revenue
Recommendation from the Stewardship Task Force: Research the potential for increasing revenue from matching gift opportunities. Additional explanation: Traditional philanthropic models are no longer the only reliable formula for fundraising success. With each passing generation, the reasons for giving and expectations of donors shift. Gustavus can substantially improve its fundraising potential by exploring those opportunities […]
Dietary Requirements for Holy Days
Recommendation from the Faith Task Force: Provide for dietary requirements of various groups on campus during holy days and times of fasting. Additional explanation: Measurable goals should be established in collaboration by the Inter-faith Workgroup, Chaplains’ Office, Diversity Center, and Dining Services to accomplish this objective over the next two years. This recommendation was placed […]
Alumni and Prospective Students
Recommendation from the Stewardship Task Force: Establish a system in which all prospective students are connected with an alumna/us. Additional explanation: The goals would be to solidify, for both alumni and prospective students, the message of lifelong pride in and commitment to the institution, demonstrate appreciation for alumni, and increase the yield of new students. […]
Co-Curricular Leadership Development Initiatives
Recommendation from the Student Life Task Force: Develop, advance, and implement a co-curricular leadership development initiatives. Additional explanation: This effort should include leadership program support, training for staff and advisors of student organizations, and the implementation of adventure and expedition components of experiential leadership education. This recommendation was placed in the Quality-Enhancing and Innovative Initiatives […]
Implementing Gustavus Brand
Recommendation from the Facilities and Finances Task Force: Implement Gustavus’s brand repositioning through a marketing campaign. Additional explanation: Gustavus’s extensively researched, creatively realized new brand identity will have a far greater impact if it is shared beyond the standard Admission and Advancement communications and institutional website. Key competitors in Minnesota are virtually ubiquitous, on billboards, […]
Minimize Environmental Impact
Recommendation from the Facilities and Finances Task Force: Use materials and practices that minimize the production of material waste, transportation, and the corresponding energy and water inputs. This recommendation was placed in the Quality-Enhancing and Innovative Initiatives Strategic Framework Substantive Category using the language: Create a Presidential Environmental Sustainability Advisory Group to promote best practices […]
Adaptive Reuse of Facilities
Recommendation from the Facilities and Finances Task Force: Continue the College’s tradition of multi-purpose use and adaptive reuse of current facilities. This recommendation was placed in the Quality-Enhancing and Innovative Initiatives Strategic Framework Substantive Category using the language: Continue the College’s tradition of multi-purpose use and adaptive reuse of current facilities and design new facilities […]
Endowing Building Maintenance
Recommendation from the Stewardship Task Force: Secure long-term support of major campus assets by endowing funds for the maintenance of building projects. Additional explanation: Maintaining a high caliber, state-of-the-art physical campus requires constant funding to keep pace with the increasing demands of the environment, the accelerating rate of technological innovation as it relates to building […]
Communal Sabbath Time
Recommendation from the Faith Task Force: Reaffirm the practice of campus-wide personal or communal sabbath time from 10 to 10:20 a.m. Additional explanation: As other colleges have moved away from daily chapel and as societal pressures increase from a seemingly never-slowing lifestyle pace, the daily chapel time at Gustavus is an immensely valuable resource for […]
Interreligious Programming
Recommendation from the Global and Multicultural Initiatives Task Force: Provide the interreligious programming and space resources needed to support students of various religious backgrounds. Additional explanation: As Gustavus recruits a more diverse student body, there will be increased need for spiritual resources, including space for religious observance outside of the Chapel; support for other religious […]