Auburn Athletics Director Jay Jacobs unveiled the goals of the Athletic Department for 2016, dubbed "16 for '16".
The 16 items include four goals and 12 "action items" for Auburn Athletics.
The four goals encompassed academics, student-athlete experience, facilities and winning.
Jacobs also detailed the action items for Auburn, including a feasibility study on a potential renovation to Jordan-Hare Stadium's north end zone.
According to Jacobs, the study is currently in the process of being completed, and there will be a detailed estimate of the potential cost of such a renovation by the end of the first quarter of 2016.
"Our goal is to have the feasibility study complete, so we'll probably know that in the first quarter," Jacobs said. "We're working on that right now to get a solid number."
Other improvements to Auburn facilities would include a renovation to Auburn Arena so as to give the volleyball team a permanent home and a plan to improve the equestrian team's facilities, as well as improving Jane B. Moore Field with various amenities, including a plan for a new support facility pending funding.
Along with facilities upgrades, Jacobs mentioned the goal to hire a chief inclusion officer to "further advance our diversity initiative already underway."
"What went into that is just looking across the nation and the sensitivity of it," Jacobs said. "We've always been very open to it. The Athletics Department, we want to be a place that's healthy for everyone, and so my thought was, 'What if we designate someone, and that is their job to do, to make sure that we're completing those goals?' I think that's very important, just like it would be to have a CFO watch the money, to make sure we're doing things right, and that's what I want to do with this."
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