BELMONT ABBEY COLLEGE

PHASE 2 - STRATEGY
14th Nov 2017

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MISSION STATEMENT

MISSION Catholic Faith

Catholic Faith in the centre of the core
curriculum gives a strong identity to the
Our Mission is to educate students in the Liberal
institution.
Arts and Sciences so that in all things God may be
glorified. In this endeavor, we are guided by the Career Preparation
catholic intellectual tradition and Benedictine Professional and Pre Professional
spirit of prayer and learning. Exemplifying majors and minors are in
Benedictine hospitality, we welcome a diverse BELMONT
ABBEY considerable demand.
body of students and provide them with an
education that will enable them to lead lives of
integrity, to succeed professionally, to become Academic Core Courses
responsible citizens, and to be a blessing to Set number of mutually
themselves and to others. reinforcing core courses instead
of disparate menu of courses.
KEY ISSUES

QUALITY OF CORE CARRICULUM

AND PROFESSIONAL PROGRAMS
The quality of the program primarily will
depend on the depth and breadth of the
programs offered.
DECLINE IN FINANCIAL
CAPACITY
Median income didn’t keep pace with
tuition fees. The average tuition in 2014
was about 70% of average household
HIGH DROP OUT RATES median income.
In 2014, Belmont Abbey had a graduation
rate of 38.4%. This translates to loss of
tuition fee from the remaining academic
years of student’s life.
TOUGH ECONOMIC TRENDS
Increasing costs due to inflation,
decreasing demand and economic
capacity

DEMOGRAPHIC PATTERNS
Opportunity: less than 25% of
secondary students enrolled in
full-time programs
OBJECTIVES
1. Continue to develop academic and student life programs to enhance value
proposition of the college
VALUE ADD
Western traditional core LIFE / PROFESSIONAL
PROGRAM

CATHOLIC FAITH
VALUE ADD
ACADEMIC Western traditional core
VALUE ADD PROGRAM

Continue to realign college operations to cover all ongoing expense through tuition revenue.
2.

2 Fold Solution : Increase Enrollment Cut Costs