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Core Values

In pursuing our mission, as a campus community we embrace, are inspired by, and seek to embody the following core institutional values:

  • Academic Excellence
  • Student-Centeredness
  • Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
  • Belonging
  • Open Inquiry
  • Civic Engagement
  • Access and Affordability
  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Collaborative Leadership 

Salem State’s 2023-2028 Strategic Goals

Commitment to Student Success

Our commitment to student success and life readiness is the unifying commitment at the very center of this strategic plan and will remain Salem State University’s North Star. We are committed to fostering student success and life readiness by creating a challenging and supportive learning environment that fully engages students in their learning and promotes attainment of academic, personal, and career goals. This core commitment is reflected in and supported by the strategic plan’s seven goals and associated objectives.

Student-Centered Strategic Imperatives

  • Build and sustain a campus culture of inclusion and belonging in which diversity in its many forms is acknowledged, valued, celebrated, and integrated into the entire college-going experience
  • Strengthen onboarding structures, activities, and services to assist students in adjusting to and succeeding as engaged learners in a university learning environment
  • Provide experiences and supports that improve retention and promote timely progress toward educational goals for all student populations, including dual-enrollment, early-college, transfer, and graduate students
  • Remove institutional barriers that negatively affect the college experience or academic progress of non-traditional, minority, marginalized, or economically disadvantaged students
  • Expand high-impact programmatic and engagement initiatives—such as student research, study abroad, internships, and community service—that prepare students for future careers and help students build confidence, connections, and life-skill learning outside the classroom
  • Reimagine and revamp the approach to student advising in order to provide more comprehensive and holistic support and promote students’ engagement, well-being and academic success throughout their years of study.

A Challenging and Supportive Learning Environment that Fully Engages Students in Their Learning and Promotes Attainment of Academic, Personal and Career Goals.