Message from the Dean of Students: The Student Affairs Strategic Plan (2021-2025) was crafted in the fall of 2020 by the Student Affairs team to clearly articulate our values, prioritize our work, and bring our team together in a healthy work environment. We aspire to advocate for student development, wellness, and engagement – the prerequisites for student success. These Objectives and Key Results will help us make resource decisions and provide team members with clear expectations. This plan was created to advance our vision of an active and engaged campus community. With our value proposition clearly stated, we confidently move forward to make greater contribututions to Northern’s Strategic Priorities and Actions. This plan was developed despite a global pandemic and with the knowledge that hard times require bold leadership and a recommitment to what matters: our students. Good strategic plans generate energy, inspire buy-in, and help spur the hard conversations necessary for growth and improvement. We believe we have achieved that goal and appreciate you joining us on this journey. If you have any questions, feedback, or suggestions for this Strategic Plan, please email me at sean.blackburn@northern.edu. Go Wolves! Sean Blackburn Dean of Students Message from the President: Our commitment at Northern State University is to provide students with a rich and distinctive academic and student life experience through personalized teaching, mentoring and support. Our Student Affairs team is dedicated to ensuring that students succeed, learn leadership and engagement skills, and are prepared to meet the challenges of the 21st Century. Now, more than ever, our democracy needs dedicated citizen leaders ready to lead, engage, and unleash their potential. Northern delivers a high caliber comprehensive educational experience and there is nowhere better or more supportive to mentoring student achievement and success. Dean of Students, Sean Blackburn, and his team have developed a Strategic Plan for Student Affairs (2021-2025). This plan was created to advance our vision of an active and engaged campus community. When fully achieved, the Objectives of this plan will create a more welcoming, safe, healthy, and engaging campus community dedicated to student success. Other objectives are committed to increasing auxiliary revenue, providing more parent and family engagement, and helping develop the professional staff who work daily with our students. I’m proud of our Student Affairs team and congratulate them on a comprehensive, inclusive, and achievable Strategic Plan. Thank you for joining their efforts to improve our student experience and for being part of the next chapter at Northern State University. Go Wolves! President Neal H. Schnoor 2020–21 Student Affairs Team: Heather R. Aldentaler - Cory J. Anderson - Assia N. Baker - Kelly A. Bindenagel – Sean S. Blackburn Janie L. Borkowski - Megan J. Frewaldt - Jerilyn K. Mielke - Mathew J. Muston - Melanie K. Neiber - Erin M. Olson Marty L. Sabolo - Officer Angela R. Senger - Amy Untereiner - Anna Weisser - Bradley D. Wolfe Sean Blackburn Dean of Students, Northern State University Neal H. Schnoor President, Northern State University Student Affairs | Strategic Action Plan 2021-2025 3 Land Acknowledgment Northern State University (NSU) acknowledges South Dakota as the ancestral territory of the Santee, Yankton, and Teton Lakota, which is an alliance known as the Oceti Sakowin (o-che-tee sha-koh-ween) (Seven Council Fires). Oceti Sakowin is historically known as the Sioux by non-Native people. The nine Native Nations that share the state’s geography include: Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe, Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, Oglala Sioux Tribe, Rosebud Sioux Tribe, Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, and Yankton Sioux Tribe. Northern State University acknowledges that before this land was called South Dakota, it was home to many Native Nations indigenous to this area. It is with profound respect that we acknowledge the indigenous peoples of this land past, present and future.
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