APLU Council on and Outreach Strategic Action Plan 2013 2017 2015-2016 Strategic Action Plan Work to be Completed Updated: January 20, 2015 (to be reviewed at 1.22.2015 Executive Meeting Goal Objective Activity Leader People/Groups Timeline/Priority Status Resources Goal 1: Strategic Framework: Increased Organizational Capacity (Membership Development and Nominating & ) Goal 1.1: Increase number of participants in CEO. By 2016 Summer Meeting and Annual Meeting, increase number of CEO participants by 15% Review CEO email list and CEO participants from last two years, then send solicitation to APLU institutions w/o CEO participants, and also do targeted recruitment of official at these institutions. Annually evaluate membership each year and recruit potential members from needed geographical regions and roles Invite more presidents and external partners to CEO meetings and to be involved strategically. Develop & distribute targeted member brochure & distribution to APLU member institutions offices related to Public Service, CE, outreach and extension. Create communication strategies targeted to selected Councils, Commissions, Board & presidents. Dan Hall, Past Chair and Nominations Chair Dan Hall and Cathy Howard CEO Nominating Meeting Nomination Bargerstock, MSU and Burman, Tennessee (Co-Chairs of ) Bargerstock, MSU and Burman, Tennessee (Co-Chairs of ) Executive,, APLU Staff Nominating Summer and Annual meeting presidential invites : - Burman, U of Tennessee - Cotsones, NIU - Ricketts, U of Iowa : Ricketts, U of Iowa Spring 2016 In Progress APLU membership information and data July of each year Annual activity Analysis of EC members by geography and demographics using list of APLU member institutions who have Carnegie designation and compared to current EC members. Each meeting and via the Nominations process Spring 2016 Meeting s and Spring 2016 Update APLU Office of Public Affairs By [need date] draft CEO brochure and revised CEO website Update APLU Office of Public Affairs # of CEO attendees at 2015 Summer and Annual Meetings Representation from each APLU geographic region, equitable distribution by role, Posting EC membership on Basecamp Monitor names and number of presidents involved in Meetings and on EC Annually count increase in CEO membership with a target of 15 per year Hall and Woodell to develop action plan Identify and target APLU institutions that do not have participants in CEO. Reach out to Extension officials. Meeting actions for presidential inclusion Identify baseline membership # in November 2014. Develop materials that will attract younger members. Summer 2016 Goal 80+ See overlapping Goal 3.1 Canadian and Mexican University roles added in 2015. 11/15EC decision to begin developing award for presidential leadership (Furco volunteered to lead) Consider using the exemplary activities gathered 6/15 and one-pagers to fulfill this activity.
Goal 2: Centrality of - Greater acceptance of as a valued role of public universities. Goal 2.1: Operationalize the concepts in the Centrality of monograph. Move the Centrality paper to APLU presidents, provosts and other leaders. Expand the concepts in the Centrality of to demonstrate use in partnerships. Goal 2.2: Toolkit Implement 2015 decision to convert Toolkit to pdf document. Executive Summary completed in 2015. Begin distribution to APLU presidents Expand existing White Paper to include EC Chair, Paton Woodell, Steele Spring 2016 Executive Summary and paper posted on CEO web-site as of 8/2015 Need leader Jim Woodell, lead Discuss with Hi Fitzgerald and other authors of Centrality paper to form working group Additional resources: Thomas, Auburn; Gladney, U of Oregon; Denzine, WVU Beth Velde David Weerts Stephen Myers Consult with: Tim & Nancy Franklin Begin Spring 2016 for November 2016 (Annual Meeting) presentation March 2016 Pending review Intern or other staff resources to lay-out document in pdf format Goal 2.3: Scholarship of and impacts Collaborate with internal and external partners to promote impact of and outreach scholarship focused on key issues. Establish common impact definitions and measures of success. Determine if next step will be to adopt proposed survey and distribute. Create a collaborative research with APLU and ESC whose charge is to develop a research methodology. Paton, TTU Van Egeren, MSU Leader needed Impact metrics ad hoc working group: Atiles, OK State Pendleton, UC Davis Wootton, TAMU Day-Perroots, WVU Scholarship impact working group above. Spring 2016 November 2016 Move meta-analysis of impacts to next stage of development and use In progress Need discussion with ACES and ESC Analysis of current scholarship themes, graduate assistant time Completion of appropriate IRB with institution of record for the study. Meta-analysis of impacts complete and in development for publication (1/16) Create a collaborative research Consider survey developed 6/13 for use Goal 2.4: Digital Propose ways to use scalable technologies and learning tools to engage many more students and learners who are currently not accessing higher education resources and learning opportunities. Issue digital learning paper; present at APLU meetings Dave King Digital working group: Dave King, Oregon St. Jorge Atiles, OK St. Burt Bargerstock, MSU Lou Swanson, CSU Valerie Paton, TTU The New : Building Reciprocal Learning Environments through Digital Access issued 8/15; presentation at 11/15 Annual Meeting Next steps?
Goal 3: Strategic Partnerships - Increased Mutually Beneficial Activities Goal 3.1: Implement strategic partnerships within APLU. Goal 3.2: Implement strategic partnerships external to APLU. Act on opportunities that identify as a tool for reaching the goals of APLU councils, commissions, board and president, and APLU member institutions. Identify opportunities to partner with external organizations on issues related to that would be mutually beneficial. Through liaisons, build relationships and knowledge of councils, commissions, board and president re: Annually inform APLU board and president regarding CEO accomplishments and goals through summary report on annual goals. Biennially identify key national and organizations that share a mission with CEO Chippewa Thomas and Byron White Woodell Update Liaisons: From 2015:CICEP: Cotsones CGA: Abercrombie CII: Wootton CSA: Keppler CUI: Weerts Board Representative (Andy Furco), EC and APLU Staff Burt Bargerstock, Ann Cameron, Rena Cotsones, Andrew Dunlop, Andrew Furco, Sharon Paynter, Matt Roy, Jane Schuchardt, Chippewa Thomas Summer 2016 Annual Report 2016 Summer Meeting Submission of annual report ACES, Academy, ESC, other non-profit organizations CEO staff to identify appropriate councils/commissions support MOU/MOA re: Strategic Partnerships Annually, 5 of 17 councils/commission served via liaisons, Liaison reports to CEO Executive meetings and posting on Basecamp Board representative assessment Inclusion of events on the agendas and bimonthly email updates to CEO members. Identify Extension contacts and initiate targeted communication. Link this activity to the New Task Force (Byron White, Jorge Atiles, Lorilee Sandmann, Hi Fitzgerald, Lou Swanson) 2015: inclusion of ESC, IARSCLE, Academy Scan the literature and web for organizations serving CE, SOE, SL such as ESC, ACES, VT Academy, Academy for University Leaders Serve on joint for Kellogg/Magrath Awards volunteer for key organizations that share CEO beliefs and values [need leader] CEO Chair is the leader and is a mem ber of the judging panel [need leader] Chair of CEO serve on judges panel for Magrath CEO members serve on regional judging panel [need timeline] Operations Manual revised and implemented for 2015 awards. Additional revisions due in January 2016. [need timeline] See ESC web-site resources 2015 Operations Manual Complete; 2016 revision due. Follow-up meeting at 2016 ESC ESC Bargerstock ACES -? Academy Weerts? [need to determine] APLU Staff and work [need to determine] List maintenance by CEO secretary and posting on Basecamp Annual participation of EC members in awards process Liaison to or volunteer on at least 3 external organizations EC reprentatives to work with APLU on 2016 Magrath Award Ceremony logistics. Recognize Kellogg award winners and reprentatives. Nov 2014: list includes Campus Compact, ESC, IARSCLE, Academy, TRUCEN, NERCHE, CCPH, Imagining America, Talloires Network 2014-15: members volunteer with ESC, ACES, Academy for University Leaders
Goal 4: Professional Development - Increased Capacity of CEO Professionals Goal 4.1: Professional Development Provide ongoing opportunities for professional development related to and outreach. Annually plan and implement sessions at the CEO summer and APLU annual meeting. and chair elect with CEO staff to choose location and the program focus. The CEO vice-chair (Cotsones) and secretary (Howard) serve as co-chairs for the program planning of the Summer and Annual meetings CEO Meeting Planning and Sub- s: By June for the annual meeting and November for the summer meeting Locations established for: 2016 Summer Meeting with CICEP in Chicago. 2016 Annual meeting in Austin, TX time Planning members time Possible funds for Bi monthly conference calls, posting to Basecamp Program work on Summer 2016 Conference If CEO partners with other Council, need to assure that CE focus is not lost and that time is allocated for considering issues of specific interest to CEO. Strong advocacy for CE alignment. Inform and promote educational opportunities to CEO members. At Annual meeting, have a session with Peter Magrath finalists who present according to the Boundary Spanning constructs or other paradigm for engaged scholarship. At summer meeting, sponsor session on leadership development for aspiring CE professionals. At summer meeting, reserve a session for CEO only to focus on key issues of the field and profession. Propose that the ESC website be linked to APLU page since ESC is a partner of CEO and has staff who update their resource page with current professional development opportunities. http://scholarship.org/ Meeting planning cochairs (Cotsones and Howard) Summer meeting planning (Cotsones and Howard) Bargerstock, Howard and Woodell CEO planning CEO representative to Magrath selection Summer meeting planning / CEO members Each summer to plan the annual meeting By April before summer meeting September 2015 In process for 2016 Link present on CEO web-site as of October 15 time Planning members time Possible funds for [need to determine] Service provided by ESC Scheduled session at annual meeting and attendance Determining session format and Session well received at 2015 annual meeting. Need to determine what would be focus and approach of future session with Magrath winners as the focus Session offered It has been noted that the conference itself is leadership development. Other organizations eg., ESC, Campus Compact & CUMU offer professional development for new CE professionals Request analytics of resource page from ESC; after one year with link on APLU page, discuss if the strategic plan need has been met. Get Executive approval of this action and communications determine best location for ESC link on the APLU CEO page with appropriate text to introduce the link.