Goals

  • Provide innovative curriculum and learning experiences
  • Provide substantive research opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students
  • Enhance community engagement
  • Achieve and maintain successful national accreditations and academic program reviews

  • Align starting faculty and staff salaries to a regional benchmark
  • Optimize the capacity of faculty and staff to achieve the college’s goals and fulfill its mission through targeted professional learning and support
  • Foster a culture and climate in which faculty and staff are valued and successful

  • Strengthen the research culture to foster faculty engagement (note: across the career)
  • Advance intellectual merit and broaden impact on practice and policy
  • Formalize an infrastructure that strengthens support for research

  • Recruit, support, and retain faculty, staff, and students from diverse backgrounds
  • Enhance engagement through impactful leadership, professional service, and support
  • Promote and foster a culture that exemplifies engagement and sense of belonging
  • Develop and enhance curriculum and training focused on engagement and meeting the needs of the college and broader community

  • Employ marketing and communication strategies that promote brand awareness, elevate the reputation of the college, and create financial partnerships
  • Expand and diversify revenue-generating activities and initiatives
  • Improve operational models to optimize use of resources
  • Create best-in-class development (or: advancement) practices to achieve funding for priorities
  • Incorporate principles of sustainability where practicable and cost effective
Last updated: 08/22/2024