Strategic Focus Area 3: Academic Excellence

SFA,SG,T,Tactic,RP,Status,StrategyGroup,AP,SG_Status 3,1,1,^Design faculty-led processes to create and administer interdisciplinary programs across academic units.^, ,, ^Improve process related to academic programs and curriculum^, Stephen Raper, 3,1,2,^Ensure academic rigor and quality in all majors and programs to meet regional and professional accreditation standards.^, ,, ^Improve process related to academic programs and curriculum^, Stephen Raper, 3,1,3,^Implement HLC Assessment Academy as S&T’s Quality Initiative.^, ,, ^Improve process related to academic programs and curriculum^, Stephen Raper, 3,1,4,^Articulate program learning objectives and program learning outcomes for all programs/majors to help students make informed decisions about selecting courses and degree programs.^, ,, ^Improve process related to academic programs and curriculum^, Stephen Raper, 3,1,5,^Design a process to internally review the sustainability of all degrees and certificates by tracking their enrollments and graduation rates.^, ,, ^Improve process related to academic programs and curriculum^, Stephen Raper, 3,1,6,^Update the process for external department reviews into a comprehensive process.^, ,, ^Improve process related to academic programs and curriculum^, Stephen Raper, 3,1,7,^Articulate course learning outcomes and document them in all syllabi and in the course catalog, and assess progress through S&T’s HLC Quality Initiative: participation in the HLC Learning Academy^, ,, ^Improve process related to academic programs and curriculum^, Stephen Raper, 3,1,8,^Ensure consistent web presence and appearance for academic programs and faculty.^, ,, ^Improve process related to academic programs and curriculum^, Stephen Raper, 3,2,1,^Restructure the Center for Advancing Faculty Excellence (CAFE) in to support teaching excellence in all programs.^, ,, ^Develop and enhance teaching and education excellence^, Susan Murray, 3,2,2,^Create CAFÉ training related to effective course and program assessment.^, ,, ^Develop and enhance teaching and education excellence^, Susan Murray, 3,2,3,^Establish new teaching evaluations with the Committee for Effective Teaching (CET) (mid-semester and end-of-semester evaluations together with CET observations and the Peer Evaluation Team).^, ,, ^Develop and enhance teaching and education excellence^, Susan Murray, 3,2,4,^Improve the graduate teaching assistant (GTA) training program.^, ,, ^Develop and enhance teaching and education excellence^, Susan Murray, 3,3,1,^Plan and implement affordable dual enrollment offerings with high schools to strengthen the region’s college readiness, leveraging existing transportation options to Rolla.^, ,, ^Improve and develop general education curriculum and dual enrollment and transfer programs^, Stephen Raper, 3,3,2,^Develop a unified general education curriculum consistent with accreditation requirements and Missouri Core-42 guidelines with appropriate levels of student choice and ease of transferability.^, ,, ^Improve and develop general education curriculum and dual enrollment and transfer programs^, Stephen Raper, 3,3,3,^Develop methods to assess the general education curriculum and dual enrollment programs.^, ,, ^Improve and develop general education curriculum and dual enrollment and transfer programs^, Stephen Raper, 3,3,4,^Pursue partnerships with community colleges to facilitate ease of transfer for students with associate’s degrees.^, ,, ^Improve and develop general education curriculum and dual enrollment and transfer programs^, Stephen Raper, 3,4,1,^Diversify and update undergraduate programs through new emphasis areas, certificates, or concentrations.^, ,, ^Develop and diversity undergraduate program offerings^, Colin Potts, 3,4,2,^Simplify pathways to graduation by applying the results of curricular analytics to prerequisite maps and modularizing courses and prerequisite chains accordingly.^, ,, ^Develop and diversity undergraduate program offerings^, Colin Potts, 3,4,3,^Using agreed-upon metrics, create, enhance, sunset, or redesign majors and/or programs.^, ,, ^Develop and diversity undergraduate program offerings^, Colin Potts, 3,4,4,^Explore the potential for developing a more robust honors program to recruit, retain, and develop outstanding students.^, ,, ^Develop and diversity undergraduate program offerings^, Colin Potts, 3,5,1,^Coordinate student marketing and pricing models.^, ,, ^Evaluate and evolve non-thesis master’s program offerings^, Susan Murray, 3,5,2,^Develop plans for face-to-face offerings of non-thesis master’s programs in St Louis.^, ,, ^Evaluate and evolve non-thesis master’s program offerings^, Susan Murray, 3,5,3,^Evaluate the feasibility of moving non-thesis master’s courses to shorter terms (e.g. eight-week blocks).^, ,, ^Evaluate and evolve non-thesis master’s program offerings^, Susan Murray, 3,5,4,^Develop new high-demand master’s programs.^, ,, ^Evaluate and evolve non-thesis master’s program offerings^, Susan Murray, 3,5,5,^Leverage or market appropriate 4+1 programs for non-thesis master’s degrees.^, ,, ^Evaluate and evolve non-thesis master’s program offerings^, Susan Murray, 3,5,6,^Develop or adopt metrics to assess the need for new master’s programs and differentiate them from research graduate programs.^, ,, ^Evaluate and evolve non-thesis master’s program offerings^, Susan Murray, 3,5,7,^Explore new options for professional master’s programs in order to diversify our offerings.^, ,, ^Evaluate and evolve non-thesis master’s program offerings^, Susan Murray, 3,6,1,^Grow marketing and recruitment of graduate students in established and new non-thesis master’s programs and research (i.e., thesis master’s and doctoral) programs.^, ,, ^Evaluate and evolve research graduate program offerings (doctoral and thesis master’s)^, Garry Grubbs, 3,6,2,^Pursue dual PhD programs to attract outstanding PhD students and leverage shared funding programs.^, ,, ^Evaluate and evolve research graduate program offerings (doctoral and thesis master’s)^, Garry Grubbs, 3,7,1,^Investigate, evaluate, and develop executive education and corporate programs and course offerings in the St. Louis area and investigate other potential locations.^, ,, ^Develop plans for corporate education and periodic delivery online and in-person of short courses about speciality topics^, David Borrok, 3,7,2,^Establish a process for regularly seeking alumni and corporate input on new programs and course modalities based on market need.^, ,, ^Develop plans for corporate education and periodic delivery online and in-person of short courses about speciality topics^, David Borrok, 3,7,3,^Establish a cost model for executive and corporate educational activities, including the potential for compensation across college boundaries.^, ,, ^Develop plans for corporate education and periodic delivery online and in-person of short courses about speciality topics^, David Borrok, 3,7,4,^Set up a website for off-campus programming.^, ,, ^Develop plans for corporate education and periodic delivery online and in-person of short courses about speciality topics^, David Borrok, 3,8,1,^Develop funding models to ensure that academic priorities will be adequately resourced, including graduate student support, start-up costs, library needs, and additional teaching from other departments.^, ,, ^Regularize transparent processes or academic resource allocation^, Colin Potts, 3,8,2,^Develop models to ensure campus-wide financial support for programs, including graduate student support, start-up costs, library needs, and additional teaching from other departments.^, ,, ^Regularize transparent processes or academic resource allocation^, Colin Potts, 3,8,3,^Develop processes to match financial resources to fluctuations in numbers of majors, student credit hours (SCH) taught, and other program responsibilities.^, ,, ^Regularize transparent processes or academic resource allocation^, Colin Potts, 3,8,4,^Develop a process for the distribution of named chairs across departments, including defined problem focus areas.^, ,, ^Regularize transparent processes or academic resource allocation^, Colin Potts,