College of Health and Human Services
2017-2020 Strategic Plan
Mission:
To provide a professionally oriented education at the undergraduate level and to provide graduate programs in specialized disciplines that serve the needs of students - as well as foster the emerging needs of residents and health and human service providers in the Central California region.
Strategic Priorities
Priority One
Align physical and technological infrastructure to maximize the success of academic programs and scholarship
Metrics:
- Creation of dedicated space for collaboration
- Modernize and update existing facilities
- Create centralized place/person for faculty research support
Themes:
- One-stop service and/or referral; physical/virtual
- Engagement, networking, and connecting
- Communication, synergy, collaboration, sharing knowledge
Aligns with University Priority three.
Priority Two
Enrich and enhance collaborations and partnerships via high-impact practices
Metrics:
- Increase college and community connections through high-impact practices at the inter- and intra- departmental, University, community and national/international levels
- Increase number of students involved in high-impact programs
- Increase number/scope of community members engaged in partnerships
Themes:
- Synergystic, holistic, unifying
- Develop and engage community partnerships and collaborations
- Community sponsored event with all departments involved
- Faculty across disciplines, departments, University, community
- Build upon existing opportunities, e.g. faculty mentoring process
- Support undergraduate and graduate student research opportunities to conduct research with faculty
- Faculty, staff and student recruitment
- Support international collaboration to enhance global citizenship
Aligns with University Priority four.
Priority Three
Invest in faculty and staff to support and encourage success
Metrics:
- Increase number of tenure track faculty
- Increase percentage of tenure track faculty with nine WTU's or less teaching
- Strengthen faculty mentoring program
- Encourage participation in staff and faculty development opportunities
- Encourage collaboration
- Increase number of research presentations and publications annually
- Monetary support for pursuit of scholarly activities
- Increase number of graduate assistants
- Increase number of funded grant applications
Themes:
- Faculty and staff development
- Responsibilities balance/integration for research, teaching, civic engagement
- Department needs for faculty
- Streamline processes to facilitate recruitment and hiring
- Leverage unique strengths of faculty
- Strategies to retain skilled staff
Aligns with University Priority two.
Priority Four
Support student recruitment and facilitate student retention while maintaining high academic standards
Metrics:
- Improve student retention
- Facilitate employment
- Shorten time to degree/degree progress
- Refresh and redesign evidence-based current and relevant curriculum to enhance full-time academic status
- Efficient, effective recruitment process
Themes:
- Department participation in recruitment initiatives
- Students coming in prepared - remedial preparation
- Students matriculating - holistic needs served
- Students moving forward prepared for employment
- Keeping the connection; networked alumni
- Increase knowledge through high-impact practices
- Strengthen academic advising within the college
- Students serve as active participants in democtratic society
Aligns with University Priority one.
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As of August 28, 2017