Updated for Academic Year 2021-22
Our Mission
The Middlebury Institute of International Studies educates professionals to advance understanding, promote peace, and drive change in pursuit of a more just world.
Our Primary Objective
Our alumni are actively engaged in careers and pursuits that advance global understanding and address the world’s most pressing challenges.
Our Strategy
2025 Objectives & Key Results (OKRs)
1) Effective Programs: How we educate professionals
Objective: We provide the best mix of mission-aligned, career focused, and market-responsive offerings in the right modes, to the right populations, and in collaboration with the right partners.
Key Results:
- Strong Learner Demand: An incremental 400 FTE (suitably defined) demonstrate that our programs have relevant curricula, top faculty, and clear employment pathways
- Diversified Formats, Platforms, Product Types: 50% of FTE participate in programs that might include one or more of the following: online/hybrid coursework, modular/stackable credentials, shorter degree programs, and more
- Strategic Partnerships: Employer partnerships bring 100 students, and connect 50 career opportunities for graduates annually
- Connected Network: 25% of students engage at least two components of the Middlebury network during their studies
2) Successful Learners and Alumni: How we foster achievement
Objective: Meaningful resources and opportunities set our learners up for success from initial inquiry through graduation, employment, and lifelong engagement with Middlebury.
Key Results:
- Inspiring Learners: We attract and enroll learners that have the potential to contribute to the Institute’s mission and lead us to achieve our vision.
- Collaborative Support: Learner success teams are integrated across departments and structurally linked to academic programs to provide optimal support so that all learners reach their academic and career goals
- Relevant Opportunities: A meaningful range of co-curricular activities, professional opportunities, and resources support individual, academic, and career success.
- Integrated Technology: Integrated information systems support all learners for lifelong engagement with Middlebury.
3) High-Performing Organization: How we operate
Objective: Within 5 years, we operate at an annual financial surplus of $10M with efficient and transparent business functions that support evidence-based decision-making in pursuit of effective programs, learner success, and a thriving community.
Key Results:
- Efficient & Transparent Systems: Coherent systems and processes support effective collaboration across the Middlebury network. Clear systems track relevant data for evidence-based decision-making at the campus and program levels.
- Diversified Revenue: Multiple sources of revenue (30% of net revenue from sources other than traditional, on-site MA degrees: consulting fees, non-tuition academic fees, etc.)
- Strong Enrollment: Integrated marketing and enrollment strategy attracts a diverse group of learners across all programs. Pricing model provides affordability and profitability.
- Strategic Investment & Redeployment of Resources: Well-defined practice for investment and redeployment of resources, creates incentives for program development (growth in existing programs, development of new initiatives and sunsetting of no-longer relevant ones) and faculty development in new areas of expertise and new delivery platforms.
4) Thriving Community: How we work together
Objective: Our diverse community is meaningfully connected through a clearly defined set of shared values and a culture of trust, innovation, collaboration, and inclusivity. People feel valued and integral to our collective success.
Key Results:
- High Satisfaction: Ranked as a great place to work with competitive salaries, benefits, and opportunities for growth.
- Meaningful Engagement: Clear communication pathways, transparent decision-making, and consistent opportunities for engagement, drawing from restorative practices.
- Strong Culture: A clearly defined set of shared values guide our strategy, decisions, and daily behaviors.
- Effective Collaboration: Employees feel meaningfully connected and able to collaborate and build relationships with colleagues across the broader Middlebury network.