Attain financial strength

To support our community, we will attain financial strength through prudent fiscal stewardship, enrollment and program growth, appropriate tuition and extramural funding strategies and broadened support from Trustees, alumni and patrons.

We will:

• achieve 9,000 annual credit hours in graduate programming by 2011
• achieve 60,000 credit hours in CGCS undergraduate programming by 2011
• achieve Drury College enrollments of 1800 students by 2015 while maintaining a student:faculty ratio of 13:1
• complete a successful $100 million comprehensive fundraising that will launch by 2010
• increase gift income to exceed $12 million per year by 2012
• grow the endowment to $150 million by 2015
• realize a return on the endowment that is in the top quartile of peer colleges and universities
• realize a net tuition rate that is consistent with a top 10 Midwest private comprehensive university
• develop new sustainable revenue generating possibilities consistent with Drury's mission and standards
• operate with a balanced operating budget, including the appropriate funding of depreciation or deferred maintenance
• expand recruiting efforts into high population growth areas, including NW Arkansas
• establish relationships and articulation agreements with community colleges to assure wider access for transfer students consistent with Drury's liberal arts core

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