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We center the Winthrop experience on student development inspired by our commitment to the liberal artstraditions, to national-caliber proessional education, and to developing leadership and civic responsibility;

We nurture collective and individual growth, enlightenment, and transormation;

We value the search or truth through reasoned and disciplined inquiry, innovation, and ree expression;

We embrace multiculturalism and the broadest possible diversity o people and perspectives;

We share a strong sense o placea beautiul, historic campus with a collegial and caring atmosphere; and

We ulll and enhance the nature and character o the university through policies and resources that reectand advance these ideals and aspirations.

Excerpted fom the Report o the Presidents Task Force on the Nature and Character o the Un

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In partnership with the Association o American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) and the John empleton Foundation,

Winthrop University has joined with a select cadre o other leading institutions across the country to arm and emphasize

that dimensions o personal and social responsibility are a undamental aspect o meaningul higher education or the 21stcentury.

At Winthrop, this important initiative maniests itsel through institutional expectation that all members o the campus

community will dedicate attention to development o the ollowing dimensions o personal and social responsibility, as

articulated by the AAC&U:

1. Striving for excellence2. Cultivating personal and academic integrity

3. Contributing to a larger community

4. Taking seriously the perspectives of others

5. Developing competence in ethical and moral reasoning

By inusing these commitments across institutional lie, Winthrop will ofer students the means to deepen and strengthen

their capacities to live, learn and lead or a lietime.

Wint hrop Univ ersit y and Core Co mmit ment s


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SRAEGIC VALUE

Winthrop University will be community o learners, dedicto intellectual, cultural, persoand social growth. All studen

be involved in the academic aco-curricular lie o the campFaculty and sta will encourathe ull involvement o studein their own education, in anout o the classroom. Te climo Winthrop will be one in wunderstanding o dierences a way o lie and the integrityeach person is a given. Indivi

will be valued or the creationachievements and contributio

with which each enriches thecampus. Winthrop will cherithe gits o all its people o bogenders and all races, religionand ethnic origins. Winthrop

will provide an environment establishes a sense o commopurpose and school spirit,

promotes an inclusive culturaenvironment and osters the maturation, intellectual and edevelopment o each student

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SRAEGIC INIIAIVES

1. o ensure Winthrop University continues to oer its students arst-class educational experience, consistent with the progress o thetimes and the needs and expectations o citizens living in a globalcontext both socially and economically, Winthrop will:

Merge the priority activities identied during its special 2010-2011 Readiness Winthrop initiative with the 2011-2012 workplan to be undertaken by Winthrop in ulllment o Te Visiono Distinction.

Continue to manage available resources and invest in Winthropsuture as needed, with emphasis on three priority areas:

o Ensuring the continuing national-caliber quality o the aca-demic experience at Winthrop.

o Continuing to provide a sae and secure campus.

o Continuing recruitment o the high-achieving, sociallyresponsible and inclusive student body or which Winthrop isknown.

2. o build on its record o nationally recognized quality and valuewhile ensuring the continued availability o the distinctive Win-throp Experience or students o the uture, Winthrop in 2011-2012 will:

Complete processes leading to receipt by December 31, 2011, ore-armation o overall institutional re-accreditation rom theSouthern Association o Colleges and Schools (SACS) Commis-sion on Colleges.

Build on elements o Winthrops SACS-approved Quality En-hancement Plan, the Global Learning Initiative, to integrateand embed global learning and awareness across students Win-

throp Experience, with particular emphasis on deepening learningopportunities in the ouchstone core courses.

Continue to institutionalize processes to ensure ongoing compli-ance with existing and any newly emerging SACS accreditationstandards and requirements o the S.C. Commission on HigherEducation.

3. o become well-prepared or such time as when the national andstate economy recover to the point that Winthrop is enabled to takeon recurring and/or non-recurring compensation improvement ini-tiatives or aculty and sta, Winthrop in 2011-2012 will completea compensation study to better understand Winthrops positionvis-a-vis peer institutions.

4. o broaden and deepen dened opportunities or a ully engagedcampus community and to take advantage o best practices in socialmedia experiences involving members o the campus communityand those beyond, Winthrop will:

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Continue to implement training and proessional developmopportunities or aculty and sta on ways o incorporatingmedia in classes (especially those in the ouchstone core anGlobal Learning Initiative,) recruitment and retention activservice learning, and other Winthrop outreach across and bcampus.

Encourage broader participation in existing Winthrop sociadia communities (e.g., XXIE and Facebook sites,) to comcate Winthrops mission and achievements more broadly.

5. o align urther its reward system with aculty roles and univeexpectations, Winthrop will review the recommendations o tCommittee on Faculty Roles and Rewards to determine resouand regulatory requirements o each recommendation and comnicate those ndings to the committee.

6. o build upon its statewide recognition in energy managemen

recycling and advance Winthrop toward the goal o becomingsustainable university, Winthrop will link institutional initiatiacademic initiatives and exploration o emerging national bestpractices.

7. o enrich the range o o-campus perspectives contributing tdent learning, Winthrop will employ selected best practices toa pilot program or bringing recognized leaders and innovatorvarious creative and proessional elds to the campus throughresidence programs tailored to their respective availability.

8. o build upon the array o inter-collegiate sports opportunitieavailable to Winthrop student-athletes, Winthrop will complesteps necessary to eld a womens lacrosse team in spring 2013

RECYCLEREUSE

REDUCEREPURPOSE


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SRAEGIC VALUE

Winthrop University will enroll anachievement-oriented, culturally diverse andsocially responsible undergraduate student bodythat will benet rom a challenging educationoered in a residential setting, supported by aull array o services that are consistent with thebest practices nationally.

Successul undergraduate applicants will havedemonstrated both academic competence anda commitment to meaningul communityinvolvement. Winthrop will increasinglyattract South Carolinas best students as wellas those highly qualied students rom beyondSouth Carolina whose presence will add to the

diversity and enrichment o the student body.Winthrop will be an institution o choice orhistorically underrepresented students who willhave demonstrated achievement through bothtraditional and non-traditional measures.

Winthrop will also enroll a cadre o graduateand continuing students in a selected arrayo high-quality graduate and continuingproessional education programs. Successul

graduate applicants will have demonstratedability or advanced study at the masters degreelevel and beyond.

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SRAEGIC INIIAIVES

1. o ulll its commitment to achieve progress toward planned enroll-ment growth and student academic success among various memberso its learning community, Winthrop this year will:

Continue to promote the services o the ederal RiO, McNair

and LEAP programs within the context o the Academic SuccessCenter.

In cooperation with area schools, determine the appropriatestructure, program content, and marketing plan or creating andpromoting the Winthrop Academy to enable qualied studentsto experience campus-level academic challenges that will encour-age their eventual application to Winthrop, and enable qualiedhigh school students to earn dual credit toward a college degree at

Winthrop.

2. o increase the number o students matriculating to degreecompletion and provide a high quality Winthrop experience whileoptimizing net tuition revenue, Winthrop will continue to balancein-state and out-o-state recruitment and enrollment o all popula-tions, including new reshmen, transer students, international andnon-traditional students, as well as graduate and summer sessionstudents, by:

Supporting engagement, achievement and persistence to gradu-ation by all students through integrated and articulated cross-institutional initiatives, e.g., the Academic Success Center and the

Oce o Nationally Competitive Awards. Designing and embedding data collection systems across divisions

to enable and inorm overarching trend analysis across camuniversity planning purposes, e.g., developing actionable inmation about obstacles to student retention and persistence

Strengthening the appeal o Winthrop to a transer studentlation by creating an oce o student services to be housed University College, and building on Winthrops strong trado merging academic and student lie perspectives and priorinto a dynamic model or transer student success.

Developing an implementation plan or the intentional recment, nancial support and necessary student services or mveterans, building on the advantages that the individualizedtention and the personal and proessional development oe

Winthrop would provide to this special population o stude

Strengthening outreach to and support or adult students, wneeds may dier rom traditional-age students.

Coordinating existing parent programs across campus and bing upon their success to date by consolidating eorts into marily web-based Parents Resource Center, coordinated wiStudent Lie, that would communicate and involve parents

when their student is recruited, through the students time campus, and beyond graduation.

Creating a systematic way or Winthrop University to trackstudent success and graduate outcomes to provide valid dataliated stories to support student recruitment, university

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SRAEGIC VALUE

Winthrop University will oer academicprograms that challenge high-achieving studentsand meet nationally established standards oquality. Tese programs will be continuallyreviewed with the assistance o externalconsultants and accrediting agencies to ensurethat students are challenged at their highestlevel o ability. Further, these reviews willensure that courses o study and the knowledgeoered are consonant with current researchand methodology. Winthrop will impart to itsstudents the knowledge, skills, experience andvalues necessary to enrich their lives and to meetthe needs and challenges o the society in which

they will live as citizens and proessionals.o this end, Winthrop will recruit and maintaina diverse and inclusive aculty o national caliber.It will support its aculty as they enhance theirabilities as eective teachers and as they developand enrich their knowledge and skills as scholars,researchers, practitioners and creative artistsin their disciplines. Moreover, Winthrop willsupport high-quality instruction and researchin every eld o study oered by developingand maintaining at an appropriate level itsclassrooms, studios and perormance spaces,as well as its inormational and instructionaltechnology resources.

Academic Lie


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SRAEGIC INIIAIVES

1. o ensure Winthrop University continues to ulll its mandate to bea rst-class institution o higher education that rom time to timeadds programs and eatures as the progress o the times may re-quire, and inormed by the outcomes o the Readiness Winthropinitiative, Winthrop in 2011-2012 will:

Launch the Department o Interdisciplinary Studies to:

o coordinate selected existing programs

o serve as an incubator or development o new program con-cepts

o initiate approval processes

o articulate core program eatures with appropriate sta toinorm development o marketing plans.

o initiate new oerings to include:

A program or individualized majors Sustainability and related studies.

Complete development o and pursue approval, implement, andinorm marketing plan or:

o Music theatre as a concentration in the theatre major

o Legal studies as an academic minor

o Bachelor o Arts in social studiesteacher certication.

Consider the easibility o developing the ollowing as potentialnew programs at Winthrop:

o Bachelor o Science in conservation biology

o Health-related proessions, e.g., allied health programs andgerontology

o Survey research

o Non-prot organization management.

Promulgate widely and market internally to existing studenparents and externally to prospective students and parents tavailability o the ollowing at Winthrop:

o Sustainable business optiono Tree-year degree programs, beginning with selected Ba

o Arts programs in the College o Arts and Sciences

o Fith-year masters degree options.

2. o ensure its continued leadership in oering national-caliberdemic programs consistent with emerging best practices, Win

will maintain its existing 100 percent national program accredtion by:

Hosting 2011-2012 site visits by:

o National Council or Accreditation o eacher Educationo Te Council or Interior Design Accreditation

o Te Commission on Sport Management Accreditation.


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2011-2012 Vision of Distinct

Conduct program sel studies in preparation or 2012-2013 sitevisits in:

o Social Work

o School Psychology

o Music

o Art and Design. Participate in external program reviews o:

o Master o Liberal Arts

o Environmental Science and Studies

o Philosophy/Religious Studies

o Sociology and Anthropology.

3. Examine the ouchstone Programs impact on student learning anddevelopment, including its relationship to majors and to studentsacademic progress.

4. o enhance the sense o community and attractiveness o Winthropor particularly high-perorming students and prospective students,

Winthrop will identiy and complete steps necessary to launch aWinthrop Honors College in 2013.

5. o enhance leadership learning opportunities or all students, Win-throp will broaden and rene leadership as an academic pursuit oncampus through a two-tiered approach that will include:

Leadership Studies opportunities or all students

Opportunities or selected students to pursue a Distinction inLeadership.

6. Expand training and assistance or programs in the developmentand assessment o student learning outcomes, including the use and

assessment o University-Level Competencies.

7. o broaden access to Winthrop University courses and support on-time degree completion, Winthrop will:

Promulgate among aculty the existence o sotware capacities orcreating/delivering courses using online technology.

Provide proessional development opportunities or aculty indeveloping and delivering online courses.

Explore enhanced campus capacities to expand course oeringsand alternative course scheduling (mid-semester starts, winter

term, summer session,) and promote those to aculty, with em-phasis on use within advisement, and to students, with particularemphasis on selected students groups with potential need oradditional course fexibility.


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SRAEGIC VALUE

Winthrop University will provide and maintaininstructional, research, perormance, exhibitionand recreational acilities that contribute to therealization o its mission as a distinctive, com-prehensive, residential learning university. In sodoing, Winthrop will preserve the unique, historiccharacter o its campus while adapting existingacilities or contemporary use and broadeningits range o housing options in order to provide acontemporary physical environment o exceptionalbeauty in which students, aculty and sta live,learn and work. Studio and perormance spaces, as

well as inormational and instructional technologyresources, will be upgraded regularly to provide

students with proessional environments similarto those they will encounter in their careers or inadvanced study.

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SRAEGIC INIIAIVES

1. o ensure timely upgrades to various acilities that will serve theacademic and personal development needs o Winthrop studentsover time, Winthrop will:

Complete adaptive reuse modications o Dinkins Hall to

enhance delivery o services to all students by University College,the Academic Success Center and other programs as needed.

Begin phased updates to Dacus Library to expand group study,collaboration, and research spaces and increase hours o access tokey areas.

Move Facilities Management rom Cherry Road Operations Cen-ter building to new Winthrop Operations Center on Columbia

Avenue when it becomes available.

Complete plans or conversion o existing space to meet programneeds o the College o Visual and Perorming Arts, beginning inthe ormer Winthrop Operations Center when it becomes avail-able.

Complete adaptation o selected spaces in Kinard Hall or newuses as identied by the College o Arts and Sciences.

Complete upgrades to Winthrop Galleries space in the RutledgeBuilding to increase fexibility through adaptive reuse.

Complete conversion o the ormer Bookworm acility to housethe Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections.

2. o continue to advance the systematic upgrade o Winthrops resi-dence hall spaces over time, Winthrop will:

Continue implementation o the 18-month reurbishment planor Phelps Hall, with targeted completion by Fall 2012.

Complete the 2011 phase o an on-going program o residencehall upts in Woord, Richardson, Lee Wicker, Tomson, andMargaret Nance Halls.

In cooperation with the Winthrop University Real Estate Foun-dation, implement phase one o Courtyard reurbishment bypainting and replacing carpet on rst two foors.

3. o preserve and protect Winthrops nationally recognized historicspaces, enabling them to continue to be adapted to contemporaryuses, Winthrop will:

Continue to develop plans and cost estimates to replace theWinthrop/W..S. Building roo and drainage system.

Continue to develop plans and cost estimates to repair McBrydeHall roo and interior ceiling beams.

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upgrade o Byrnes Auditorium.

Complete in Fall 2011 the phased restoration and modernizationo electrical and plumbing systems in illman Hall.

4. o make available needed space or a variety o university academic,student service and alumni needs, Winthrop will:

Create and implement a plan to convert Roddey Apartments intoRoddey Hall, in 2012-2013.

Begin study o reurbishment needs in Craword Building orHealth and Counseling Services.

5. o enhance and protect the Winthrop Recreational and ResearchComplex acilities or use by learners o all ages, Winthrop will:

Delineate and improve security around successional growth plots,and develop plans or a related outdoor classroom space.

Renovate the Wetlands outdoor classroom area and replace the

boardwalk with a more sustainable mulch trail.6. o continue the upgrade o selected athletic acilities, Winthrop will

utilize athletic bond capacity to:

Complete upgrades to the Coliseum, including paver walkwayand window installations as needed.

Develop and implement plans to address on-going tennis courtissues.

7. o enable the long-term growth o Winthrop University as appro-priate to needs and expectations over time, Winthrop will complete

acquisition o properties identied as key to orderly and qualita-tive campus development, with minimal net impact on the localproperty tax base.


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SRAEGIC VALUE

Winthrop University will providesupport systems and services to advanceits goals and the work o its aculty, staand students in pursuing those goals.In addition, Winthrop will have theorganizational fexibility and humanresource policies necessary to support theproessional growth and development oaculty and sta, and to make the mosteective and ecient use o their talentsand experiences.

Winthrop will provide a rameworkor the management o inormationtechnology, and will ensure that

inormation technology resources areused eectively and eciently in supporto the mission, goals and objectives othe university. Inormation technologyresources at Winthrop will conorm tonational and international standardsand exist as convenient and dependableutilities.

All scal, logistical, technological, human

resources and other support serviceswill be consistent with the best practicesnationally and will enable the smooth andecient operation o the university.

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SRAEGIC INIIAIVES

1. o ensure that Winthrops technological capacity remains currentwith the needs and expectations o an institution o its mission andquality, Winthrop will:

Continue to develop and implement its multi-year rolling plan

or training and phased migration to newly enhanced mission-critical administrative computing capabilities through the Bannersystem, with the least possible disruption to provision o servicesto various stakeholders as all or some o the unctions o the ol-lowing systems are brought on line in 2011-2012:

o Banner Sel-Serve, which will allow each employee/managerto submit/approve individual records o time worked, accesspersonal payroll stub inormation, submit/review leave recordsand carry out other personnel unctions through paperlessprocesses.

o Banner interace with special program that will enable alloca-tion and tracking o charges made on University procurementcards.

o Banner Workfow, which will manage certain electronicapproval processes and fow o inormation through event-triggered e-mails.

o Banner ravel and Expense, which will streamline travel au-thorization, reporting and reimbursement processes.

o Banner Fixed Assets, which maintains records regarding Win-

throps xed assets, e.g. land, buildings and capital equipment.o Banner Document Management Systems, which will allow

imaging and management o documents as electronic lto increase availability and reduce paper fow to increaseciency and unctionality.

o Luminus V, which by 2013 will be an updated platorm Winthrops Wingspan portal or online inormation andpersonnel processes.

o Banner 9, an update that over time will increase user-rieness in all Banner programs.

Develop a multi-aceted initiative to broaden access to existand new data and make it more actionable or both academmanagement purposes by:

o Creating an online inventory o reports already existing the university and a process or adding new reports to thinventory as they are generated.

o Reviewing third-party sotware systems or their potenti

useulness at Winthrop.o Creating a report-generating capacity that will empower

authorized users to dene, generate, and synthesize reponeeded or specic purposes.

o Creating proessional development opportunities or potusers o this capacity.

2. o help ensure transparency regarding use o state resources,Winthrop will develop a publicly accessible online presence odesignated inormation related to university expenditures mad

ulllment o Winthrops mission.

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SRAEGIC VALUE

Winthrop University will be an eective advocate orits needs and those o higher education in general.Te university will maintain active communicationsand relationships with its alumni, other institutionso higher education, educational associations, primary

and secondary schools, elected and appointed publicocials, and business and other external communities.

Winthrop will engage in an active program toheighten public awareness o its educational andcultural resources in the state, the region and thenation. In addition, Winthrop will be a source osignicant public service in economic, educational,and cultural aairs in South Carolina and in the RockHill-Charlotte-Metrolina region.

Te Winthrop University Alumni Association willprovide assistance by communicating with alumni andoering programs or current and ormer students tooster their lielong relationship with Winthrop, andby encouraging continued support o the universitysdevelopment, traditions and reputation. Te WinthropUniversity Foundation and Real Estate Foundation

will provide private nancial support or initiativesthat enhance the Winthrop experience, particularly

in the areas o scholarship endowments, acultyenrichment and specic projects that help ensure theuniversitys success in meeting its goals.

Partnerships and Collaborations


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SRAEGIC INIIAIVES

1. o help meet needs o todays students and assist in preparing theuniversity and its transormational educational experience or thechallenges and opportunities o the uture, Winthrop will assist the

Winthrop University Foundation in launching Distinction: TeCampaign or Winthrop in all 2011.

2. o ensure Winthrops continuing capacity to manage and respondto changing economic circumstances in the state and nation whileconcurrently enabling Winthrop to develop as needed or uturestudents, Winthrop will continue to engage with a variety o publicocials to:

Obtain timely inormation essential to the Winthrop communitybeing inormed about and responding appropriately to emergingtrends.

Broaden and deepen understanding o Winthrops role in help-

ing South Carolina and South Carolinians to adjust to currenttrends, uture demands and opportunities or economic and civicprogress.

Advance Winthrops cause at the ederal level, as ederal undingopportunities become available or public higher education and asederal legislation and regulations that could support or threaten

Winthrop emerge.

Dene, develop and implement initiatives that will best serveWinthrop and its students within the context o state and ederal

public policy movement toward Accountability Based Fundingmodels.

3. o advance its contribution to activities that assist South Caroin meeting changing workorce needs, creating economic devement opportunities and positioning the state to be competitiva global economy, Winthrop will continue to engage and inoa wide variety o existing and new businesses and business-relaentities that are partners and stakeholders in the states uture.

4. o enhance opportunity or relationships between and amongalumni, current students preparing or the world o work or ustudy, riends o the university and other stakeholders with wh

Winthrop works, Winthrop will broaden its use o alumni com


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nications capacities to arm Winthrops reputation or quality andvalue and advance its causes through coordinated outreach activities.

5. o promote progress in meeting student expectations or a con-temporary college town eel to campus environs, including alongCherry Road across rom campus, Winthrop, in partnership withthe City o Rock Hill, will work toward phased implementation o

the College own Action Planby:

Working with York Countyand the S.C. Department oransportation to improvethe pedestrian and vehicularsaety o the campus environs,particularly Oakland Avenueand Cherry Road, as well as

connections to DowntownRock Hill.

Working with various business operators and property owners inthe area to create a College own Business Association.

Working with the Society or College and University Planningand selected consultants to increase awareness o the Collegeown Action Plan activities within national university planningand economic development circles.

Working with potential private sector partners as needed to en-gage them in implementation o the College own Action Plan.

6. Work with the City o Rock Hill and the Rock Hill EconomicDevelopment Corporation in support o their overall economic

development goals, withparticular emphasis on:

Te Rock Hill Jobs Initia-tive

Te Cherry Road CorridorBusiness/Land Use Study

Te next phase o TeBleachery redevelopmentinitiative

Te Downtown rolleyinitiative implementation.

7. o create an array o opportu-nities or Winthrop studentsto engage in activities relatedto the upcoming 2012 American presidential elections, Winthrop

and its West Forum on Politics and Public Policy will:

Work with ocials o the S.C. Republican Party and otherplanners involved in bringing presidential candidates to the statein advance o the partys Presidential primary in early 2012, toinclude visits to the Winthrop campus.

Work with ocials o the City o Charlotte and other planningorganizations involved in hosting the Democratic National Con-vention in Charlotte, N.C., in September 2012 to involve S.C.students in educational events with prominent attendees.

Work with partisan and independent organizations to bringpresidential candidates to the Winthrop campus in the campaignleading up to the Presidential election in November 2012.

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Money Matters

Te old picture o Winthrop revenue: 1990-91 Winthrops projected revenues or scal year 2011-12

Mission Statement


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Winthrop University provides personalized and challenging undergraduate, graduate, and continuing proessional education programs o national

caliber within a context dedicated to public service to the nation and to the State o South Carolina. All eligible bachelors, masters and specialist

degrees are nationally accredited a reection o the Universitys commitment to be among the very best institutions o its kind in the nation.

Building on its 19th century origins as a distinctive womens college, the Winthrop University o the 21st century is achieving national stature as a

competitive and distinctive, co-educational, public, residential comprehensive, values oriented institution. Te values o service, excellence, diversity,community, and leadership provide the oundation or Winthrops continuing development and shape Winthrops continuing success.

Winthrop enrolls an achievement-oriented, culturally diverse and socially responsible student body between 6,500 and 7,000 students. Te University

recruits South Carolinas most able students as well as highly qualied students rom beyond the state whose presence adds diversity and

enrichment to the campus and the state. Winthrop prides itsel on being an institution o choice or groups traditionally under-represented on many

college campuses.

Winthrop is located in a traditional setting o exceptional beauty, and provides a contemporary, collaborative, and supportive environment that osters

engaged student learning and development. Winthrop has a diverse and able aculty and proessional staf o national caliber and supports theirwork as efective teachers, scholars, researchers, practitioners, and creative artists. Trough this talented group, Winthrop students acquire and develop

knowledge, skills, capabilities and values that enrich their lives and prepare them to meet the needs and chal lenges o the contemporary world,

including the ability to communicate efectively, appreciate diversity, work collaboratively, synthesize knowledge, solve complex problems and adapt

to change. Ongoing assessment o programs and services ensures both that al l academic programs challenge students at their highest level o ability

and that the library, instructional technology and other academic service areas support courses o study that are consonant with best practices. As

a result, Winthrop graduates are eminently well prepared to enter the most competitive graduate or proessional schools as well as to be leaders in

their chosen proessions and in their communities.

(Adopted by the Winthrop University Board of Trustees - 6/12/98)

(Updated by the Winthrop University Board of Trustees - 11/3/00 and 4/16/10)

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