A Strategic Vision for Albright College

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Our Mission

The mission of Albright College is to provide students with an education that enables them to live their best lives, now and in the future. We immerse students in impactful experiences that foster social mobility and ensure exceptional outcomes through real-world engagement, a supportive community, and a distinctive co-major program rooted in the liberal arts and sciences.

Our Purpose & Passion

Our longstanding commitment to educating students of academic promise in a community where individual students enhance their ability to learn how to learn, to approach challenges from multiple perspectives, to cross boundaries both in and outside of the classroom, and to make connections with intellectual confidence.

Our Distinctive Niche

Albright’s cross-disciplinary, personalized education and close-knit community prepares students for success in lives and careers.

Our Commitment

Albright College as a premier learning environment in the 21st century where students learn to learn. We will create an environment comprised of the spaces and programs where all students, faculty and staff have the opportunity to engage through the exploration of ideas, the love of learning and the appreciation of each other.

An Ambitious Goal For 2030 – shaped and defined by seven strategic themes

In 2030, we envision that Albright will have a national reputation for closing the gap on education for all students of academic promise — for students who earn an affordable and high quality degree with a strong liberal arts foundation, who are prepared to enter the workforce, who experience significant socioeconomic mobility, and who are prepared to hold fulfilling jobs, across all student demographics (gender, racial, ethnic, first-generation).

Seven Strategic Themes

The following broad themes are designed to engage, rejuvenate, and focus our community on building on the strengths of what we currently do, bringing together programs and initiatives that are currently disjointed. They are designed to allow new creative initiatives to arise to take advantage of opportunities, address weaknesses and threats, and to achieve our ultimate goal of national name recognition… “Oh, Albright College is the college where…”

Cross-disciplinary academic collectives – Provides the opportunity for faculty to build and foster communities of creative scholars and artists creating clusters of boundary-crossing programs and experiences that support student engagement and success.

Lifting Up Lions – Expands Albright’s new program for supporting students in times of difficulty and will endeavor to support and lift community members to reach their full potential.

Lions’ Edge: Lion Learning and Career Development Commons – Builds on Albright’s ongoing work with the Title III grant and focuses on developing the programs, processes, technology and spaces that support student success, both at Albright and beyond.

Lion Pride – Supports Albright student-athletes – over one-third of Albright’s student population is comprised of NCAA student-athletes, and an additional 10% or more participate in club and intramural sports – in their engagement in their sport and the organization and self-discipline required to balance and succeed in athletics and in the classroom.

“Albright Is” – Points of pride for the Albright community – Focuses on a series of initiatives around Albright’s pride in itself, and on marketing and communicating our identity and distinctiveness so that the Albright community, the regional Reading and Berks community, and the world know and understand who Albright is.

Lions at Work – Aims to build a series of initiatives that will produce workplace efficiencies and financial sustainability, and process effectiveness and efficiencies for the workdays of our employees.

Albright as an anchor institution – Strengthens Albright’s role as an anchor institution in northeast Reading, a crucial component of being an enduring institution, one playing the long game of equity now and in future generations.

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Annual Goals

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