The Agenda for the Future provides a road map for the next chapter in Merrimack College’s history. The plan embraces our Augustinian Catholic mission while recognizing the challenges the College faces. It is bold, ambitious and aspirational and is designed to be successful, inclusive and transformative.
growth, mission & impact
Merrimack will do this by expanding further into graduate education and sponsored research, by embarking upon a record-setting fundraising campaign and by building upon its recent success of creating an innovative, academically excellent culture of teaching and learning and improving upon its rising reputation and ranking.
This undergraduate experience has the amazing responsibility, ability and capacity to alter the direction of a young person’s life through education, exposure and opportunity. The base of this capacity is its physical campus, its ability to innovate and work as one organization on its undergraduate educational programs. When these three areas work in harmony its impact on the lives of its students, their families and their communities is exponentially enhanced.
Agenda for distinction (2010-2020)
Developed in 2011, the Agenda for Distinction served both as a strategic aspiration for Merrimack College and as the framework for accreditation by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC). It was through the accreditation process that the five goals of the Agenda for Distinction emerged and became the framework of the success the College enjoys today.
Implementing our strategic plan will require resources and investments and the College will: