Strategic Plan 2024

Setting a Course for the 21st Century

Georgia Southwestern State University
Georgia Southwestern State University

Responsible Stewardship

We will ensure affordability for students by containing costs and optimizing efficiency across the system.

We cannot ensure access and success without being affordable. While the Board of Regents has kept tuition and fee increases to a minimum, we need to do more to address the full cost of students’ attendance such as room and board, books and other course materials. Additionally, we must continue to find ways to be more efficient while maintaining quality in our operations. The Comprehensive Administrative Review (CAR), for example, provided recommendations to improve efficiency and help avoid administrative duplication often found in services like student enrollment processing, residency verification, assessing fee waivers, etc. Savings obtained through optimizing efficiencies can be redirected to student success, by hiring faculty and expanding student services.

While being mindful about costs, USG institutions must also be good stewards of all of our resources. Investing in sustainable materials, technologies and operations are also necessary for achieving this goal. We can further identify savings and exercise good stewardship by creating a sustainable enterprise.

Our students, and their families, invest considerable time and money to earn a college degree. It is our responsibility to ensure they have information to make the best financial decisions about paying for their education. In addition, our goal is to help students achieve their academic goals at the lowest cost. Finding more efficient ways for course registration and financial aid, and reducing administrative red tape, will save them time and money. By advancing these strategies, we will assure our students, the taxpayers of Georgia and our funding partners, the Governor and General Assembly, that we are good stewards of the resources entrusted to us.

Strategies for Responsible Stewardship

As Strategic Plan 2024 progresses, additional information will become available for the following strategies: