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Goal 3: Productive Partnerships

We will develop and sustain partnerships to benefit the people and communities within the MSU service region, Appalachia and beyond.

Objective 1: Strengthen and expand long-term and sustainable partnerships with business, government, education, health care and nonprofit organizations.

Key Strategies:

  • Strengthen the coordination of all MSU outreach activities to better prioritize and align resources to support a defined and realistic set of operational goals and objectives.
  • Review and expand advisory board for Center for Regional Engagement with membership from business, education, health care, government and nonprofits.

Objective 2: Promote and support regional economic development and job creation.

Key Strategies:

  • Build capacity for developing and delivering entrepreneurship programming across campus.
  • Expand existing entrepreneurship education programs in K-12 system.
  • Collaborate and partner with Workforce Investment Boards on economic development, job creation and internships.

Objective 3: Connect regional partnerships to on-campus research and educational strengths.

Key Strategies:

  • Effectively engage and educate the academic community in supporting regional outreach.
  • Create and reinforce formal collaborative structures within MSU designed to meet critical needs in region.

Objective 4: Develop rigorous, systematic evaluations of outreach activities.

Key Strategies:

  • Establish goals and measures of impact for outreach activities.

Objective 5: Promote and support outreach activities that demonstrate a positive impact on the MSU service region.

Key Strategies:

  • Develop and distribute an annual report/publication communicating the impact of outreach activities to the public.

  • Identify groups/methods to effectively communicate quality and impact of outreach activities.

  • Promote and host targeted fundraising, pride raising and networking events.

Productive Partnerships: Key Performance Measures

  • Number of P-12 students served by MSU outreach programs

  • Percentage of SCH online

  • Number of businesses participating in the career fair

  • Number of student-hours contributed annually in regional engagement activities

  • Number of services provided to the community

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