Advancing Leadership
Shaping Change

NASPA Strategic Plan
Goals 

Goal 1     Build the capacity to create knowledge and use data to provide evidence that will support excellence in practice.

Objectives

1.1  Be the primary source of data on the experience of college and university students

1.2 Demonstrate the impact of student affairs on student learning, persistence, and success through scholarship, assessment, evaluation, and research.

1.3  Tighten and align the connections among theory, research, and practice.

1.4  Enhance skills and provide tools to conduct student affairs program reviews in support of best practice and institutional effectiveness.

Goal 2     Lead advocacy efforts that shape the changing landscape of higher education.

Objectives

2.1 Assert NASPA's leadership role in critical issues of public policy regarding higher education.

2.2 Define, adopt, and communicate a public stance on critical policy issues in higher education.

2.3  Build capacity among membership in order to effectively influence public policy.

2.4 Track state and regional issues that might significantly affect students, practitioners, and/or campuses.

Goal 3     Launch an Initiative to collaborate with student affairs worldwide.

Objectives

3.1 Conduct a needs assessment to guide and prioritize NASPA's international efforts. 

3.2 Clarify NASPA's niche in international student affairs.

3.3 Provide context-appropriate professional development activities to improve knowledge and skills of student affairs professionals both domestic and abroad.

Goal 4     Strengthen NASPA by making it a more responsive, vital, and sustainable organization.

Objectives

4.1  Diversify and strengthen the sources of NASPA's revenue.                  

4.2 Increase collaboration and partnerships with higher education and other organizations.

4.3  Review and redefine the roles and responsibilities of the NASPA President, Executive Director, Regional Vice Presidents, and Board structure and composition.      

4.4  Increase opportunities for innovation through technology.

4.5  Strengthen NASPA's contributions to student affairs graduate preparation programs.

4.6 Ensure the participation and inclusion of NASPA's members in leadership and governance.

4.7 Examine resources and staffing to ensure alignment with strategic planning goals.