Goals

Promote high quality educational experiences for students

  • 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

Recruit, support, and retain exceptional and engaged faculty and staff

  • 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

Elevate the visibility and impact of research

  • 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

Promote Engagement

  • 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

Grow and effectively steward resources

  • 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