Subject: Language Revisions: Strategic Plan Goals and Objectives

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1 AGENDA ITEM: V Florida Polytechnic University Board of Trustees Strategic Planning Committee December 9, 2014 Subject: Language Revisions: Strategic Plan Goals and Objectives Proposed Committee Action Approval of the language changes to the university strategic plan goals and objectives. Background Information The Board of Trustees adopted its revised strategic plan on June 10, Subsequently, Dr. Randy Avent began his term as Florida Polytechnic University s inaugural president on July 7, Dr. Avent spent the first four months of his tenure getting to know how the Board of Trustees had positioned the university to serve as an economic engine for the State of Florida and this region. Recommendations for language changes to the strategic plan do not change the mission and goals adopted by the Board. Dr. Avent believes that rearranging and rewording the goals will better communicate to all stakeholders the mission and vision for Florida Polytechnic University. All work units in the university have been tasked with creating their own strategic plans that show how they will support the university s strategic plan. This will ensure that the university s efforts at all levels will support the goals and objectives adopted by the Board of Trustees. Supporting Documentation: Strategic Plan Goals (Current) Strategic Plan Goals, Objectives and Directives (Recommended) Prepared by: Randy Avent, President Strategic Planning Committee

2 STRATEGIC PLAN GOALS (CURRENT) GOAL 1: Become a world-class higher-education STEM institution that is recognized in the state, nation and globally. OBJECTIVE 1: Recruit and retain qualified faculty who are professional practitioners and scholars in their respective fields. Directive 1: Hire adequate full-time faculty with the highest caliber of professional and academic experience in cutting-edge STEM disciplines to meet responsive curriculum needs and student demand requirements. Directive 2: Provide an academic environment for faculty to engage in applied research and respond to fast-paced changes in technology conducive to student achievement, experiential learning and preparation for careers in high-tech industries. Directive 3: Ensure faculty development and participation in global partnership models, theory, research, and scholarly cross-disciplinary activities and thinking in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. OBJECTIVE 2: Gain regional accreditation for validating educational quality, institutional excellence and stakeholder accountability. Directive 1: Develop internal work plan to ensure that procedures, policies, standards and curriculum comply with the core requirements and standards for accreditation by August Directive 2: Ensure academic programs are built with the capacity to improve student learning and make continuous improvements. Directive 3: Successfully complete and submit the Application for Candidacy to achieve regional accreditation for the academic year. Directive 4: Schedule a regional accreditation advisory visit and respond to all recommendations resulting from this visit. Directive 5: Submit all final required reports and documents for regional accreditation upon graduating the first class in GOAL 2: Achieve projected student enrollment through continually developing responsive programs and services. Strategic Planning Committee

3 OBJECTIVE 1: Develop and implement Enrollment Management initiatives to manage student recruitment, matriculation, retention and graduation. Directive 1: Seek to increase the number of qualified completed applications resulting in increased yield and retention rates at all levels. Directive 2: Demonstrate service excellence in key areas of enrollment management recruitment, admissions, registration and financial aid. Directive 3: Create an adaptable, efficient and effective process to matriculate highachieving high school, transfer and graduate students. OBJECTIVE 2: Recruit, train and retain quality staff that matches constituent needs and industry demands. Directive 1: Provide professional development and training programs throughout all levels of the University to attract and retain a high-quality faculty, which would result in and help to ensure a student body that is diverse, successful and high achieving. GOAL 3: Build an infrastructure that inspires a technology-rich, innovative and interdisciplinary learning environment and a culture of open communication and collaboration for overall student success. OBJECTIVE 1: Manage campus facilities to accommodate University constituents, foster campus life and support university engagement. Directive 1: Complete the Innovation Science and Technology Building and Phase I of the Wellness Center, combined with a clinic, dining services and bookstore operations with student activities, by Fall Directive 2: Complete Phase I of the University s student housing plan to accommodate up to 219 students by fall OBJECTIVE 2: Provide academic space to prepare students seeking hands-on, integrated creative learning opportunities in high-tech STEM disciplines. Directive 1: Facilitate access to library learning resources and materials through a dynamic online library and main campus location. Directive 2: Develop the Academic Success Center as a central hub of student success by providing a variety of services and opportunities that supplement and reinforce what is being presented in the classroom by fall Strategic Planning Committee

4 OBJECTIVE 3: Leverage technology to provide unique, advanced, accessible and highly sought after learning and working experiences for students, faculty and staff. Directive 1: Integrate advanced technology throughout the campus and take a streamlined approach to identity management, human resources, student records, asset management, utility and cost controls. Directive 2: Create a seamless classroom environment by using lecture capture systems to record and recreate each lecture or lab experiment, making it possible for students to replay lectures as needed on and off campus. Directive 3: Implement a Learning Management System (LMS) that integrates classroom materials on and off campus to deliver the same learning experience for both face-to-face and distance delivery. Directive 4: Deploy a Student Information Systems (SIS) that is completely available via Cloud Computing. Directive 5: Offer delivery of industry-induced programs and courses in face-to-face, hybrid and online modality at undergraduate and graduate levels. GOAL 4: Create a campus environment that nurtures and empowers faculty, students and community partners to successfully conduct collaborative research, experiential learning and economic outreach. OBJECTIVE 1: Cultivate and maintain regional business and industry partnerships for increased student opportunities. Directive 1: Establish 50 industry partners in the first year (2013/14) and increase to 150 partners in Directive 2: Convert a minimum of 100 industry partnerships into opportunities for joint research, teaching, product development, internships and job training/placement by academic year OBJECTIVE 2: Prepare students for careers in high-tech industries to work and live successfully within a multicultural global community. Directive 1: Ensure all faculty members in programmatic disciplines have documented syllabi that incorporate hands-on engineering and technology-based learning with industrydriven applications. Directive 2: Establish industry partnerships with STEM-related businesses for mutual benefit to provide opportunities for joint research, product development, internships, jobs and Strategic Planning Committee

5 advisory boards for information and feedback on academic programs. OBJECTIVE 3: Create ongoing exchange programs of information with industry leaders and business partners. Directive 1: Establish an ongoing exchange of information with business partners and industry leaders to help identify the knowledge and skills needed by graduates to succeed in the industries related to STEM programs Directive 2: Provide the public, industry partners and community leaders yearly economic impact analysis and job growth reports tied to the University. GOAL 5: Establish sound financial growth, stability and administrative practices. OBJECTIVE 1: Promote effective standards for financial integrity, efficiency, responsibility and accountability. Directive 1: Develop systems and controls to manage resources allocated for all educational processes, faculty and staff scholarship, training and development. Directive 2: Annual internal audits will improve operational efficiency to ensure University departments are operating within BOT policies and procedures and State statutes. OBJECTIVE 2: Develop and implement extramural funding programs and relations to support University growth and financial viability Directive 1: Increase annual philanthropic support to the University through effective advancement. Directive 2: Strengthen external relationships and increase outreach efforts among University stake-holders as measured by gift providers to the University. Strategic Planning Committee

6 FLORIDA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY STRATEGIC PLAN GOALS, OBJECTIVES AND DIRECTIVES (RECOMMENDED) Goal 1: Deliver core STEM education in fast-growing high technology areas. Objective 1.1: Develop and implement Enrollment Management initiatives to manage student recruitment, matriculation, retention and graduation Seek to increase the number of qualified completed applications resulting in increased yield and retention rates at all levels Demonstrate service excellence in key areas of enrollment management recruitment, admissions, registration and financial aid Facilitate access to library learning resources and materials through a dynamic online library and main campus location Develop the Academic Success Center as a central hub of student success by providing a variety of services and opportunities that supplement and reinforce what is being presented in the classroom by fall Create an adaptable, efficient and effective process to matriculate highachieving high school, transfer and graduate students. Objective 1.2: Recruit and retain qualified faculty who are professional practitioners and scholars in their respective fields Attract and maintain adequate full-time faculty with the highest caliber of professional and academic experience in cutting-edge STEM disciplines to meet responsive curriculum needs and student demand requirements Provide professional development programs to attract and retain a high-quality faculty, which would result in and help to ensure a student body that is diverse, successful and high achieving. Objective 1.3: Leverage technology to provide unique, advanced, accessible and highly sought after learning and working experiences for students, faculty and staff Integrate advanced technology throughout the campus, and take a streamlined approach to identity management, human resources, student records, asset management, utility and cost controls Create a seamless classroom environment by using lecture capture systems to record and recreate each lecture or lab experiment, making it possible for students to replay lectures as needed on and off campus. Strategic Planning Committee

7 1.3.3 Build at least 10% of the course content through the Learning Management System (LMS) that integrates classroom materials on and off campus Deploy, provide functional integration and customize a Student Information Systems (SIS) that is assessable to students and faculty anywhere Offer delivery of industry-induced programs and courses in face-to-face, hybrid and online modality at undergraduate and graduate levels. Objective 1.4: Prepare students for careers in high-tech industries to work and live successfully within a multicultural global community Ensure all faculty members in programmatic disciplines have documented syllabi that incorporate hands-on engineering and technology-based learning with industry-driven applications. Goal 2: Build environment that encourages problem-driven applied research for near-term impact. Objective 2.1: Build infrastructures to support hands-on student-integrated creative learning opportunities and faculty research Provide an academic environment for faculty to engage in applied research and respond to fast-paced changes in technology conducive to student achievement, experiential learning and preparation for careers in high-tech industries Ensure faculty development and participation in global partnership models, theory, research, and scholarly cross-disciplinary activities and thinking in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Goal 3: Form industry and community partnerships for mutual benefit. Objective 3.1: Cultivate and maintain regional business and industry partnerships for increased student opportunities Establish industry partnerships with STEM-related businesses for mutual benefit to provide opportunities for joint research, product development, internships, jobs and advisory boards for information and feedback on academic programs Establish 50 industry partners in the first year ( ) and continue to increase to 150 partners by Strategic Planning Committee

8 3.1.3 Convert a minimum of 100 industry partnerships into opportunities for joint research, teaching, product development, internships and job training/placement by academic year Objective 3.2: Create ongoing exchange programs of information with industry leaders and business partners Identify through business partners and industry leaders the knowledge and skills needed by graduates to succeed in the industries related to STEM programs Provide the public, industry partners and community leaders with an annual economic report tied to the University. Goal 4: Create efficient organization with sound financial growth, stability and administrative practices. Objective 4.1: Recruit, train and retain quality staff that matches constituent needs and industry demands Provide professional development and training programs throughout all levels of the University to attract and retain a high-quality staff, which would result in and help to ensure a staff to faculty ratio of 1.5 or less by Objective 4.2: Manage campus facilities to accommodate University constituents, foster campus life and support university engagement Complete the Innovation Science and Technology Building and Phase I of the Wellness Center, combined with a clinic, dining services and bookstore operations with student activities, by Fall Complete Phase I of the University s student housing plan to accommodate up to 219 students by Fall Objective 4.3: Gain regional accreditation for validating educational quality, institutional excellence and stakeholder accountability Develop internal work plan to ensure that procedures, policies, standards and curriculum comply with the core requirements and standards for accreditation by August Ensure academic programs are built with the capacity to improve student learning and make continuous improvements. Strategic Planning Committee

9 4.3.3 Successfully complete and submit the Application for Candidacy to the regional accreditation agency during the academic year Schedule a regional accreditation advisory visit, and respond to all recommendations resulting from this visit within 2 weeks Prepare to submit all final required reports and documents for regional accreditation upon graduating the first class in Objective 4.4: Develop and implement extramural funding programs and relations to support University growth and financial viability Increase annual philanthropic support to the University to $29 million over the next 5 years Implement a Moves Management Program by the end of calendar year 2015 resulting in stronger external relationships and increased outreach efforts among University stakeholders Increase the Foundation Board to 32 diverse members by Objective 4.5: Promote effective standards for financial integrity, efficiency, responsibility and accountability Develop systems and controls to manage resources allocated for all educational processes, faculty and staff scholarship, training and development Audit reports from internal and external auditors result in no significant findings and less than 10 audit findings each year. Strategic Planning Committee