Wildly Important Goals

Four overarching Themes have been established to guide our work over the next five years. Each Theme has one or two Wildly Important Goals (WIGs) that will drive the initial work of the plan.

Revised WIGs will be adopted as each WIG is achieved. This approach will allow Riverland to focus energy on the most important piece/first step of each Theme rather than multiple projects at the same time. This will help manage workload and prevent employee burnout while still moving Riverland towards the future we envision for our coworkers, students, and our region.

Foster a mission-driven workplace culture across the institution that reflects the Heart of Riverland and promotes diversity, effectiveness, collaboration, and engagement.

Wildly Important Goal: Increase new unlimited full-time employee rolling 3-year retention rate from 73.76% to 81% by end of FY30.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Increase PACE Institutional Structure score from 3.3 to 3.5 by FY27.
• Increase PACE Student Focus score from 4.0 to 4.2 by FY27.
• Increase PACE Supervisory Relationships score from 3.8 to 4.0 by FY27.
• Increase PACE Teamwork score from 3.7 to 3.9 by FY27.
• Boost employee participation in ACD from 74% to 85% by FY27.
• Raise PACE survey participation from 52% to 60% by FY26.
• Increase unique employee participation in committees/search teams from 114 to 167 by FY27.

Increase student success (retention, completion, transfer) of ALL Riverland students through best practices in and out of the classroom.

Wildly Important Goal: Increase First Fall to Second Fall student retention from 72.5% to 76% by 2027.*

Key Performance Indicators:

• Increase fall-to-fall retention rate by 7% per year.
• Reduce equity gaps to less than 5% for all target demographics.

Foster stronger ties to the communities we serve through aligning academic programming to local workforce needs, increasing community engagement and visibility, and strengthening Riverland’s influence and contribution in key community organizations.

Wildly Important Goal: Increase number of industry partners and community engagement activities by 5% each year.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Industry Partner Engagement: Increase baseline of 480 industry partners.
• Community Engagement: Establish baseline for individual community members engaging with Riverland.

Develop a robust growth plan for the college that includes not only enrollment but strategic growth in revenue outside of tuition and state appropriations.

Wildly Important Goals:

1. Increase Gross Alternative Revenue in support of our Mission from $6.8 to $7.9 million by end of FY30.
2. Increase enrollment strategically from 2225 FYE to 2460 FYE in alignment with age structured demographics of the communities we serve by end of FY30.

Key Performance Indicators:

• Non-tuition revenue increases by 3% per year.
• Increase overall student enrollment by 2% per year.
• Become a minority-serving institution, specifically Hispanic-serving, by end of FY28.

*The percentage of a fall-entering cohort of regular (Admission Category 11) and transfer (Admission Category 12) students who have been retained, graduated, or transferred by the second fall term following the original fall of enrollment. Includes full-time and part-time students. This excludes PSEO and Unclassified Students. Baseline%: Cohort Beginning First Fall 2023.