| Active | Create an admissions rubric that aligns with factors correlating with success at NCSSM and that includes qualitative factors such as motivation and interest in science, technology, engineering, and math. |
| Starts Year 2 | Improve the Advising Program by increasing interaction between advisors and advisees, and improving the quality by implementing an Advisor training and evaluation program. |
| Starts Year 3 | Train faculty, staff, alumni, and students to offer recruitment activities that include academic workshops for potential applicants in their home communities each year. |
| Starts Year 2 | Revise registration and scheduling practices to increase students’ chances for academic success. |
| Active | Create a summer program to provide prerequisite content for accepted juniors whose placement scores and other appropriate criteria indicate a need in order to introduce and acclimate them to the level of rigor at NCSSM. |
| Starts Year 2 | Enhance student support by increasing the quality and quantity of extracurricular staff-to-students interaction. |
| Starts Year 3 | Enhance student support by increasing the quality and quantity of staff-to-student and student-to-student academic interaction outside of the classroom. |
| Starts Year 3 | Provide student information to faculty and staff and enhance their ability to meet students’ needs. |
The status of each Specific Result is indicated as either “active” or as starting during a subsequent year of implementation. More detail about the implementation of each Strategy and Specific Result will be available in a Strategic Planning Annual Report published each fall. The first Annual Report will be published in the Fall 2013.