The website for Beyond Boundaries, the university’s strategic plan, was recently updated. New features include:
- A new design to support communication and highlight progress through stories and metrics
- An RSS feed, which allows Marquette Momentum stories to automatically appear at the bottom of the site
- Added “progress points” for each goal theme — stories that highlight work done at the college and unit-level to advance Beyond Boundaries
- Learn more about progress made on each goal theme below.
- Clearer messaging and cleaner visuals
- New goal theme icons
- Updated objectives and tactics
- Updated metrics
- Updated list of Operation Team members
See the new site at mu.edu/strategic-planning.
Progress points for each goal theme:
- Marquette had a record-breaking 2018-19 academic year for enrollment, overall diversity and graduation rates.
- The Graduate School launched three new graduate programs through the incubator: criminal justice analytics, sport and exercise analytics, and a master’s in management.
- The Student-Run Business Program successfully launched six new businesses in the 2018-19 academic year.
- Graduate enrollment at Marquette increased 10.5 percent since fall 2016 despite the national trend among private, nonprofit universities, which saw a decline during that time period.
- A new graduate Behavior Analysis program was launched. The program is housed in a newly renovated building that contains two clinics – one focusing on treating children with autism and another focused on treating severe problem behaviors in persons with developmental disabilities.
- In collaboration with UW-Milwaukee, the Northwestern Mutual Data Science Institute was founded. The institute advances data science and technology learning to strengthen future talent in Milwaukee.
- Hunger Clean-up celebrated 30 years at Marquette. The event placed more than 1,300 volunteers at 58 sites throughout the community for a one-day service project and donated $5,000 to Walker’s Point Youth and Family Center.
- The College of Health Sciences launched Wisconsin’s first-ever Neuro Recovery Clinic, which provides intensive neurorehabilitation for victims of stroke and those with other neurological conditions.
- In partnership with the Johnson Controls Foundation, Marquette launched the President’s Challenge. The challenge awards a $250,000, two-year grant for one interdisciplinary, collaborative proposal that addresses inequities within a community. In 2019, The Next Step Clinic received an additional $100K beyond what was provided by the grant.
- Marquette convened the next iteration of the Community Engagement Task Force. Composed of more than 80 internal leaders and external community partners, the Task Force seeks recommendations on how to institutionalize community engagement at the university.
- The School of Dentistry expanded its oral health care services to underserved communities in Milwaukee and throughout the State of Wisconsin.
- Men’s basketball moved into the Fiserv Forum, a state-of-the-art facility with a high-level, first-class experience for fans.
- The university implemented the Ready to Inspire Success program (RISE), a pre-orientation program designed for students of color. The goal of the program seeks to support and connect students of color while equipping them with the tools to be successful throughout their four years at Marquette.
- To bolster Marquette’s Race and Ethnic Studies program (RAES), the university recruited nine faculty members based on shared interdisciplinary research interests. Cluster hiring also helped advance faculty diversity, which increased from 13 to 33 percent since 2016.
- Marquette launched a series of training initiatives, including an “Unlearning Racism” series, designed to address implicit bias among staff and faculty.
- Through a $5 million endowment from the Thomas J. Rolfs Family Foundation, Marquette launched the Institute for Women’s Leadership, which seeks to advance gender inequality research and create programming and training opportunities for women in leadership, both on campus and in the community.
- The College of Nursing awarded more than $800,000 in scholarships to underrepresented students and held more than 800 one-on-one meetings with students through Project BEYOND-2, a program that supports students from underrepresented backgrounds in their pursuit to graduate and start their nursing careers.
- For the first time in the Law School’s more than century-long history, there were as many women in the first-year class as there were men—with women making up 52.4 percent.
- The Fourth Annual Justice in Action conference brought together 14 host departments to engage students in conversations about justice, equity and community.
- President Michael R. Lovell brought a Blessed Virgin Mary Grotto to Marquette. President Lovell also developed a website to direct people to sacred spaces on campus through which a virtual Sacred Spaces Tour was developed.
- The Office of Marketing and Communication exceeded its goal to highlight its Catholic, Jesuit identity through media placements and promotion of mission-related initiatives on campus.
- The College of Communication reformatted its annual retreat to focus on integrating Jesuit principles into teaching and research. College leadership wanted to foster a culture that will support university strategic goals with emphasis on creating a culture that integrates mission with college activity.
- More than 1,500 students participated in Mission Week 2019, which included a university-wide service project to support victims of human trafficking and homelessness.
- The university organized its first-ever student-athlete service trip to Costa Rica through Courts for Kids. Sixteen students spent the week building a space for kids to play, bond and unite.
- The Athletics and Human Performance Research Center (AHPRC), Marquette’s $20 million new interdisciplinary campus research facility opened this spring.
- Several professors received prestigious NIH grants, including Dr. Murray Blackmore, who received $1.9 million for his spinal cord regeneration project and Dr. Robert Wheeler and Dr. John Mantsch, who also received $1.9 million, which will fund neuroscientific research into psychiatric disorders such as addiction and depression.
- The Explorer Challenge received national recognition when it earned the University Economic Development Association’s Award of Excellence for Developing Innovation and the Journal of Economic Development in Higher Education 2018 Editors’ Choice Award in the innovation category.
- The College of Education more than tripled its research expenditures since 2013-14, moving from $393,810 to $1,191,895 as of Dec. 30, 2018.
- The College of Health Sciences established a bioimaging core, which will support research programs across campus, particularly neuroscience research.
- The College of Nursing escalated research productivity with faculty securing federal NIH funding as well as funding from The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute and other institutional and foundation funding.
- The Commons, Marquette’s first new residence hall in 50 years, opened its doors to students in 2018.
- In collaboration with ITS, the Purchasing Department launched MARQetplace, the university’s new eProcurement system. The system has improved the user buying experience, created efficiencies and reduced costs.
- The university exceeded its FY19 fundraising goal while also increasing alumni giving.
- Marquette partnered with Wintrust on a ten-year contract that included exclusive commercial and retail banking services, a $12 million investment in scholarship aid, athletics and other institutional support.
- Marquette converted the lighting in its parking structures to LED, which, in addition to being a more environmentally-friendly lighting option, will save the university more than $100,000 annually.
- HR rolled out DirectPath, the new web-based online enrollment tool which streamlined and improved the user experience for employee benefit enrollment and provided necessary verification of plan participant eligibility.
