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20 The College of New Jersey Magazine offering more attractive financial aid packages. To attract 1,500 students each year, we have to make sure we're putting aid on the table. It's a real buyer's market. Add to this the pandemic, which was a full-body disruption — acade- mics, housing, sports, extracurriculars, buildings, and grounds. The ques- tion became: How do you continue to maintain anything — educational excellence, progress toward degrees — in an environment in which you're not face to face? In all aspects of college life, we had to step back and take a new look at the norms of the college and how we might do things differently. How are student expectations changing? What more, or what else, do they want from the college experience? Increasingly, our students are saying, "Regardless of what my major is, I want to know there's a postgrad- uate opportunity for me." So we're investing more in our career services, our leadership programs, our intern- ships, our study abroad programs, and our service learning and volunteerism programs. This is a focus of the new strategic plan? Yes. We want to strengthen what we do at the undergraduate level so that it remains relevant in a rapidly changing world. That requires us to anticipate the evolving needs of students and stakeholders. In addition to integrating some of the high-impact practices that set students up for post- graduate success, the plan calls for us to revisit our general education curric- ulum to ensure that it is impactful. We also want to be mindful that our community mirrors the world around us in terms of diversity. Finally, the "e plan calls for us to develop graduate degree and certificate programs — and enhance online and hybrid options — that will allow us to serve a broader range of students." 5 President Foster participates in a strategy session with Lisa Angeloni, vice president for enrollment management; Jeffrey Osborn, provost; and Sean Stallings, vice president for student affairs.

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