Review/update of the Campus Strategic Plan
What have we accomplished?
Strategic Priority I - Preparing students for a 21st-century global economy by delivering innovative and relevant academic programs:
- Additional online programs-joint and campus
- - dramatically increased IUOCC offerings
- Budgeting for new programs and facilities
- Key program – required in some majors, embedded in co-curricular programming
- Expanded study abroad, increased externships
- Developed diversity plan
- Nutrition lab
- Library/Learning Commons
- Next generation learning labs
- Main Building renovation
- Math Commons
- Increase in diverse student enrollment, international and domestic
- More embedding of co-curricular activities in the classroom
- Regular program reviews, curriculum reviews, and revisions
- Increase in diverse faculty
Strategic Priority II - Increasing college enrollment and degree attainment in north central Indiana:
- AVCAA for Student Success
- Reimagining FY (AASCU)
- Strengthening FYS
- Student Success Academy
- Student success retention plan
- Enrollment is up
- 4-yr., 6-yr. graduation rates continue to increase
- Growing athletics program
- Strengthened Career Services programs (e.g., Career Fairs, internships & externships, peer mentors)
- Addition of Director of IR
- Cleaning up Academic Advisement Reports
- Progress on degree maps
- Expanded success coaches
- Secured Women in Philanthropy grant
- Summer Bridge program
- Secured grants to support campus programming
- Increased dual credit programs
- Entrepreneurial ways to support the educational needs of the region
- ABC program
- Telling our story through marketing efforts
- CAPS
- Use of Royall
- Teaching financial awareness
- Attention to DFW rates
Strategic Priority III - Promoting the culture of discovery and creativity among students, faculty, staff and community members:
- Increased representation of students at conferences, state & national
- Increased presence of art on campus, student art, downtown art gallery
- AAMA approved
- Annual faculty recognition ceremony
- Access to Foundation Center grant opportunities
- Expanded honors program
- Expanded funding of research, undergraduate & faculty; two new research awards
- Grant for cyberinfrastructure support from NSF
- Field
- Applied & Community Research Center
- HS student writing & poetry competition
- KEY Program
- Sustainability Task Force
- Assessment Coordinators Workshop and adoption of Task Stream
- Strategic Priority IV - Being a valued regional partner by enhancing relationships with community members and alumni:
- Progress on Bicentennial goal
- 68% Campus Campaign participation
- Bicentennial Campaign Network Committee
- Built an alumni survey to be administered in August
- Advisory Boards in key counties
- Facilitated creation of NCIRPO
- Increased outreach to schools
- Programming for students, parents and teachers in the region (e.g., Walk into My Future)
- Alumni recognition events
- Reinstated Alumni magazine
- Athletics
- CEP in education
- School/program advisory boards
- Over 150 visits to the service region by faculty and administrators
- Increased participation through business consulting projects in the region
- Increased community participation through Design Center projects
- Collaboration with Family Services Association
- Community outreach through Student Life and Career Center
- Regional Grand Challenges networking event at IU Kokomo
Strategic Priority V - Supporting the professional growth of faculty and staff:
- Increased travel funds for faculty and staff
- More workshops offered on campus (e.g., CTLA, diversity, conflict management, leadership)
- Healthy Initiatives Committee
- Onboarding plans and new hire orientations for staff
- Deans’ development fund for professional development
- Improved distance learning environment & technology
- Finance and budget training
- Certificate opportunities through CTLA, Accessibility Center, Campus Diversity
- (e.g., accessibility, safe space)
- Outside speakers, annual academic affairs retreat, faculty learning communities
- Food pantry
- IT info shares on emerging technology
- Increased use of Fitness Center, open to alumni now
- Kim’s Café, nutrition
- Kingston Crossing
- Adding a CAPS counselor
- Quality Matters training for peer reviewers
- Explorance Blue
- New support position for CTLA
- FACET, Regional Grand Challenge
- Funding for business faculty data analytics training
- Wellness programming, personal training