Strategic Action Plan for New York Tech’s Future

New York Tech: Innovation in Action

New York Tech persists in its mission to provide career-oriented education, give all qualified students access to opportunity, and support research and scholarship that benefit the larger world.

We seek to nurture and invigorate a diverse, thriving community of doers, makers, innovators, and healers who are reinventing the future.

New York Tech: Innovation in Action—developed through an institution-wide effort that included faculty, staff, students, administrators, and alumni—is a five-year strategic action plan to enhance the student experience and strengthen the collective university, outlined across four priority areas:

  • Optimize Student Success
    • Increase High Value Learning and Relational Experiences & Reduce Administrative Barriers
    • Drive High-Impact Student Learning with a “Future of Work” Lens
    • Increase Students’ Sense of Belonging to New York Tech Beyond the Classroom
  • Drive Innovation & Discovery with Diverse Talent
    • Build Community, Morale, and Shared Sense of Purpose
    • Enhance Recruitment, Retention, and Professional Development of Staff and Faculty Members
    • Enhance Teaching Excellence
    • Grow Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity for a Broader Reach
  • Sharpen Institutional Identity
    • Institutionalize a Self-Reflective Identity Conversation
    • Strengthen New York Tech’s Commitment to Equity and Inclusion
    • Advance and Promote New York Tech as a Leader in the Application of Technology
  • Fortify Institutional Viability
    • Strengthen External Resources
    • Achieve Financial Strength

The plan highlights three cross-cutting themes: strengthening equity consciousness, accelerating digital transformation, and improving operational efficiency and resource effectiveness.

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Impact

Since the plan’s approval in Spring 2022 and the start of implementation in Fall 2022, there has been progress within each area. Please see select highlights, proposed key performance indicators, and current projects for each area below.

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  • From Fall 2022 to Fall 2023, the undergraduate first-time, full-time retention rate increased from 77 percent to 79 percent.
  • As of Spring 2023, 41 experiential education courses have been approved for the new undergraduate general education curriculum.
  • The Office of Student Employment has been further expanded and is providing additional resources for students seeking employment on campus and for faculty and staff supervisors of students.
  • From 2020 to 2023, New York Tech first-year students showed improved responses on the quality of interaction with advisers on the National Survey of Student Engagement, surpassing the average performance of peer institutions.
  • The number of students participating in Student Government Association organizations and clubs increased from 854 in AY 2021-2022 to 2,335 in AY 2023-2024, a 173 percent increase.
  • As of Fall 2024, the Strategic Plan Action Team supported the scaling of programs to support student success, including undergraduate Peer Success Guides, Mayfest (the return of the street festival and the expansion to the Vancouver campus).
  • As of Fall 2024, the Strategic Plan Action Team supported pilot programs to support student success, including a re-design of the student lounge in 16 W. 61st St. on the New York City campus, enhancing virtual tutoring with Pencil Spaces tutoring software, student conference funding opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students, a new approach to supporting student math success, and a mascot for the Vancouver campus.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

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  • The Center for Teaching and Learning piloted and scaled communities of practice (CoP), including one CoP that developed a resource on promoting student engagement.
  • Faculty Development Day was established as an opportunity for faculty to explore effective practices and provide faculty with concrete ideas they can incorporate into their teaching, research, and creative activities. Staff members have also regularly participated in the semi-annual event, which regularly draws between 200 and 300 participants.
  • Between Spring 2023 and 2024, the Adjunct Advisory Council, an adjunct resource webpage, a comprehensive resource site in Canvas, and a twice-yearly newsletter were established.
  • In 2023, New York Tech undergraduate seniors reported increased higher-order learning, teaching effectiveness, and interactions with faculty compared to the 2020 survey and compared to peer institutions on the National Survey of Student Engagement.
  • In 2024, the Strategic Plan Action Team funded an interdisciplinary team of faculty and staff members representing all of New York Tech’s schools and colleges to participate in the AAC&U Institute on AI, Pedagogy, and the Curriculum.
  • In 2023, New York Tech created a new position, Vice Provost for Research, and in 2024, a Research Advisory Council was established toward the university’s goal of achieving R2 status. OSPAR developed baseline data to track award applications, awards received, and expenditures. In 2025, New York Tech confirmed classification as a Research College and University (RCU) by the American Council on Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
  • The Institutional Development Committee of New York Tech’s Academic Senate piloted an event for faculty and students engaged in research to briefly share their interests, expertise, and opportunities for collaboration. 
  • A centralized research page was included in the redesigned nyit.edu.
  • The Student Research Opportunity Center (SROC) was established. The SROC is a clearinghouse, housed on Handshake, where faculty members can post opportunities for New York Tech undergraduate and graduate students to engage in scholarly research and to work with faculty on research and grant projects.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

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  • Since Fall 2022, the Institutional Development Committee of the Academic Senate has served as a sounding board for initiatives within the Strategic Plan Action Team.
  • In Spring 2023, the Strategic Plan Action Team hosted an Inclusive Excellence Workshop.
  • In Academic Year 2023-2024, a new academic program review process was established.
  • In August 2024, the newly redesigned New York Tech website went live.
  • The Strategic Plan Action Team has supported an ongoing project using focus groups and survey data to examine New York Tech’s identity and direction.

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

  • HEDS Diversity & Equity Climate Survey | 2021

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  • New York Tech has continued to expand opportunities for high school students and/or community members, including New York Tech’s College of Engineering & Computing Sciences’ High School Summer Maker Academy and the School of Management’s High School Business Bootcamp.
  • New York Tech Advance, our high school in-college program, expanded from 3 to 10 high school partnerships.
  • New York Tech and Howard University established a seven-year accelerated Pharm.D. program.
  • The Strategic Plan Action Team has supported and catalyzed pilot projects, including the Employee Resource HUB, partnership inventory, and creating a unique experiential education partnership that engaged New York Tech students to redesign classrooms in a local middle school.
  • New York Tech has secured federal and private institutional grants to strengthen its capacity to equitably optimize student success, including the Title III Strengthening Institutions Grant in 2023 and the Postsecondary Student Success Grant in 2024, and ongoing funding to promote STEM leadership from the VOYA Foundation which supports some of the opportunities for high school students.
  • In January 2024, Project WIN (Workday Implementation Now) launched. Its vision is to “transform business processes to achieve operational excellence, foster a culture of continuous improvement, and empower all employees to drive the success of New York Tech’s mission.”

Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)