Review/update
What do we have left to do?
Strategic Priority I - Preparing students for a 21st-century global economy by delivering innovative and relevant academic programs:
- Greenhouse
- Getting 100% of programs to do an assessment
- Getting 100% of gen ed courses to do an assessment
- Increase diverse experiences on campus & abroad
- Increase diverse faculty, staff & students
- Focus on completion programs for students who have some credit, not enrolled
- Overcome barriers to online courses & programs (e.g., gen ed)
- Create a culture of assessment
- Inclusion & diversity in academics
- More career readiness in KEY
- More community mentoring in Career Services
Strategic Priority II - Increasing college enrollment and degree attainment in north central Indiana:
- Enhance grant applications
- Increase retention to 70%
- Increase graduation rates to 22% (4-yr.), 45% (6-yr.) by 2020
- Increasing tutoring, tutor availability
- Support for international travel
- Increase # of international students and support (housing, global concerns, programming)
- Attract higher % of well-prepared students
- Improve financial wellness support for students
- Need for more data for evaluating programs, services
- More full-time faculty (leads to increased retention)
- Formally establish centers
- On-campus housing
- Campus culture to support students
- More relationships with high school groups
- Grow intramural sports
- ESL tutor
Strategic Priority III - Promoting the culture of discovery and creativity among students, faculty, staff and community members:
- A website that highlights faculty and faculty-student research
- Involvement in IU Bicentennial
- Creating a culture of promoting discovery and creativity
- Increase opportunities for research grant funding
- Increased collaboration among regional campus – Regional Grand Challenge
- Course buyout
- Creative ways to allocate unused faculty research funds
- Some programs still need to work on assessment
- Increase grant applications (internal & external)
Strategic Priority IV - Being a valued regional partner by enhancing relationships with community members and alumni:
- Encourage academic units to reconsider service requirements for P&T
- Develop an alumni mentoring program
- Develop alumni TED-style (TEDx) talks
- Strategic development of funds for specific student populations (e.g., 21st Century Scholars)
- Establish an economic development advisory board
- Create Saturday school for the community
- Make campus more welcoming to the community to encourage more community visits/participation in events
- Summer camps
Strategic Priority V - Supporting the professional growth of faculty and staff:
- Improved mentoring program for faculty
- Adjunct support after initial training
- Adjunct inclusion
- Nominating faculty & staff for awards
- Develop criteria for Chancellor’s Professorship
- Formal advancement opportunities for staff positions
- Health and wellness clinic
- Provide more administrative support for CTLA programs
- Address financial wellness
- Online course quality assurance
- More peer review