1.
Enhancing Business Processes – Budget Development and
Management
Goal:
Create user-friendly, web-based budget development and management processes
that will support participatory budget development and management.
Rationale:
For ABAC to quickly become Georgia’s State College of Choice will require
changes within many existing budget units and creation of new ones. During
the last budget cycle the process of budget reallocation began, but decision
makers were hampered in their ability to make the necessary changes because
of the inability to quickly and easily make changes to and balance the
budget. Similarly, the inability to easily manage budgets in the near-real
time results in ineffective and inefficient use of personnel.
2.
The Office of College Advancement
Goal:
Create a robust, well managed office whose singular role is to advance the
College via the acquisition, management and expenditure of public and
private assets.
Rationale:
For ABAC to quickly become Georgia’s State College of Choice will require
thoughtful and deliberate strategic and capital planning, aggressive fund
raising and investments that are well placed in accordance with the
College’s mission.
3.
Transforming Academic Programs
Goal: Earn
a strong state, regional and national reputation for academic excellence and
positive student experience by developing unique and acclaimed 2-yr and 4-yr
academic programs and by recruiting and retaining the very best in faculty,
staff and student talent.
Rationale:
For ABAC to quickly become Georgia’s State College of Choice will require
the expansion and improvement of existing programs and the development of
new programs that will draw students and faculty from across the state,
region, nation and world. A positive and productive academic environment
requires committed and engaged, well adjusted faculty, staff and students.
4.
Institutional Effectiveness and
Process Improvement
Goal:
Create a program that is committed to enhancing all aspects of institutional
effectiveness and efficiency through the use of technology, institutional
research and process improvement.
Rationale:
For ABAC to quickly become Georgia’s State College of Choice will require
continuous process improvements that focus on effectiveness and efficiency.
Research will provide the data that will drive decision making and
technology will be the primary tool of information delivery, transactional
processing and the enhancement of learning.
5.
Marketing, Promotion & Public
Relations
Goal:
Increase public awareness of educational and career opportunities for
students, faculty and staff at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College.
Rationale:
For ABAC to quickly become Georgia’s State College of Choice will require
that more people know about the opportunities at ABAC. To know ABAC is to
love ABAC. The more who know ABAC, the more who will love
ABAC.