Goals

Student Engagement and Success

• Goal 1: Increase the opportunities for experiential learning for faculty and students
• Goal 2: Programs should include collaborative interdisciplinary project courses
• Goal 3: Educate graduates ready to begin or advance their professional careers

High Performing Academic Programs and Quality Research

• Goal 1: Increase the number of sponsored contracts and grants
• Goal 2: Incorporate Project-Based Learning [PBL] on interdisciplinary projects with external partners.
• Goal 3: Ensure that there are processes in place to identify programs to be created, expanded and maintained
• Goal 4: Ensure that there are processes in place to support programs

Service and Engagement

• Goal 1: Expand the number of partnerships (project, classroom, research and service)
• Goal 2: Increase the quality and level of involvement of faculty with existing partnerships.

Innovation

• Goal 1: Support learning environment that fosters innovations
• Goal 2: Establish innovation as a curriculum core concept, common to all programs
• Goal 3: Infuse innovation at all curriculum levels of each program

College/Institutional Effectiveness

• Goal 1: Create organizational structure that enhances the synergy between internal and external programs
• Goal 2: Recruit staff to support programs and to achieve college goals

*these goals are not prioritized in any particular order