We strive to meet enrollment goals across four areas: academic readiness, access, affordability, and student success. By focusing on these priorities, we help promising students from all backgrounds access an IU education.
Read our strategic plan below to learn more about our goals for enrolling and supporting talented, deserving students from Indiana, the nation, and the world. To see recent successes, visit our annual OEM Overview.
The OEM Strategic Plan (2024–2030) outlines our comprehensive goals to recruit, support, and retain students through coordinated efforts that align with IU Bloomington’s mission, campus priorities, and the IU 2030 framework.
We will recruit and retain high achieving students from all backgrounds through combined efforts from OEM offices, campus, and community partners by:
Objective 1.1
Achieving campus enrollment target for domestic first-year and transfer students regarding appropriate size, mix, and academic preparation.
Objective 1.2
Enhancing admissions file review operations to align with federal and state guidelines as well as school and campus priorities.
Objective 1.3
Strengthening and expanding campus recruitment partnerships.
Objective 1.4
Establishing an efficient, responsive, and innovative admissions systems operations infrastructure.
Objective 1.5
Supporting recruitment from a variety of backgrounds and precollege engagement.
Objective 1.6
Demonstrating the impact of admissions programs, processes, and communications through expanded articulation of performance metrics for all budgeted activities.
We will provide appropriate Financial Aid to reduce the debt burden for every financially disadvantaged student admitted to IUB to support student retention and success through:
Objective 2.1
Continuously assessing and identifying student groups with the greatest financial need to establish and direct educational, advising, or direct financial support.
Objective 2.2
Partnering with other campus units to support and facilitate financial aid transactions/processes for students.
Objective 2.3
Developing student programs to promote student engagement and stewardship.
Objective 2.4
Identifying funding sources for additional student scholarships and programs through development efforts and grants.
We will clearly communicate scholarship opportunities and financial aid information to increase affordability and student success through:
Objective 3.1
Expanding the number of math and reading tutors in the Monroe County School Corporation (OSFA).
Objective 3.2
Aligning important financial aid and scholarships processes and communications.
Objective 3.3
Expanding student usage of BAM.
Objective 3.4
Increasing education about scholarships.
We will expand programs, research, and partners collaboration to enhance the student experience and promote retention by:
Objective 4.1
Strengthening internal and external partnerships to support student retention.
Objective 4.2
Leveraging our resources and research to identify student’s obstacles to retention and a successful student experience.
We will support campus initiatives to allow for increased flexibility and applicability of student records and registration processes by:
Objective 5.1
Providing timely and accurate response and support for current academic records and processes.
Objective 5.2
Continuing close collaboration with campus partners in support of students, schools, academic departments, and faculty.
We will continue to examine the structure of all student-facing services to assure the tightest alignment between those services, the academic mission, and student engagement by:
Objective 6.1
Leveraging our own resources to find ways to better serve our constituents.
Objective 6.2
Identifying opportunities for innovation to support new initiatives tied to the student experience.
We will continue to promote organizational and operational efficiencies and best practices in a multifaceted approach in order to further internal effectiveness, including decision support and innovation while maintaining excellent stewardship of our resources and delivering the highest level of services to our constituents by:
Objective 7.1
Identifying opportunities to establish operational efficiencies, best practices, and cost savings measures in the OEM functional areas to best support our constituents and campus partners.
Objective 7.2
Identifying opportunities to establish operational efficiencies, best practices, and cost savings measures in the OEM administrative areas to best support all units in OEM. The specific tactics follow.
We will instill risk mitigation best practices across OEM, with continued assessment of all our critical areas ensuring the protection and accuracy of institutional data; internal and external communications; and transactional workflows within our SEM framework by:
Objective 8.1
Ensuring critical resources are fully functional and available to support OEM’s strategic operations.
Objective 8.2
Establishing proactive mechanisms to identify potential issues in critical processes, operations, communications and awarding to ensure compliance and avoid risk.
