College of Education Strategic Plan
Goals and Subgoals
Goal 1: 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
Goal 2: Recruit, support, and retain exceptional and engaged faculty and staff
- Align starting faculty and staff salaries to 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
Goal 3: 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
Goal 4: Promote diversity and inclusive excellence
- Recruit, support, and retain faculty, staff, and students from diverse backgrounds
- Enhance diversity and inclusion through impactful leadership, professional service, and engagement
- Promote and foster a culture that exemplifies inclusive excellence
- Develop and enhance curriculum and training focused on diversity and inclusion for the college and broader community
Goal 5: 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
