Strategic Goals of the University
- Enhance Financial Capacity
- Increase SCH by 25%
- Increase Sponsored program funding by 25%
- Strengthen Core Academic Mission Areas
- Improve Racial Climate and Campus Diversity
College of Arts and Sciences Goals: 2007-2012
- The College will improve the quality of ourcore undergraduate and graduateacademic programsby 25% by 2012.
- The College will create a diverse faculty, staff and student body by 2012.
- The College will increase undergraduate student credit hour production by 25% by 2012.
- The College will increase sponsored program research funding by 25% by 2012.
l. The College will improve the quality of our core undergraduate and graduate academic programs by 25% by 2012.
In order to achieve this goal, the College will:
- Re-visit our general education requirements
- Implement new/enhanced programs that will attract new students
- Improve our PACE offerings and provide incentives for regular faculty to participate.
- Strengthen existing collaborations and encourage new collaborations between departments.
- Continue to contribute to the Institute for Urban Education (IUE).
- Grow our life and health sciences courses/programs and develop new courses/programs in this field.
- Grow our visual and performing arts courses/programs and develop new courses/programs in this field.
- Grow our urban emphasis courses/programs and develop new courses/programs in this field.
- Provide more internship possibilities.
- Evaluate, revise and strengthen the BLA/MALS degrees.
- The College will attract and retain faculty, staff and graduate students.
- For faculty, we will:
- Implement a compensation program for existing regular faculty that allows for competitive salaries with our comparator institutions.
- Recruit new faculty at competitive salaries.
- Seek funding through the Provost’s office for new faculty start-up funds.
- Improve the use of and accounting for the contribution of our non-regular and part-time faculty (including an analysis of the capacities they bring to the College.
- Develop a fair compensation program for all non-regular and part-time faculty.
- For staff, we will:
- Implement a compensation program for existing staff that is competitive.
- Seek an internal review of the salary categories through the system office in order to update them given increases in the cost of living.
- For graduate students, we will:
- Improve the use of and accounting for the contribution of graduate students (including an analysis of the capacities they bring the College).
- Seek a fair system of compensation for graduate students through fee remissions/waivers and increased stipends.
- Seek endowed graduate assistantships and other scholarships/sponsors for graduate students
2.The College will create a diverse faculty, staff and student body by 2012.
We will:
- Continue our efforts to recruit and retain students, staff and faculty of color.
- We will study other institutions’ successes in these areas.
- We will work closely with the Provost’s office and with the new Deputy Chancellor for Diversity, Access and Equity to develop recruitment and retention strategies and incentives.
- Establish a pool of student mentors/tutors among minority students
- Increase our scholarships for minorities.
- Create a Black Studies/African American studies major.
- Improve student interaction/sense of community, through College-sponsored activities.
- Establish a pool of matching funds to provide support for departments sponsoring lectures, programs or other activities that emphasize diversity.
- Participate in community programs such as the Ivanhoe Project and other programs that connect the College and UMKC to diverse communities.
- Have more student involvement in the community through internships, academic service learning and volunteer opportunities.
3.The College will increase undergraduate student credit hour production by 25% by 2012.
We will:
- Work with college-wide and university-wide committees on recruitment and retention. These committees have already been formed and we will work to implement their suggestions.
- These undoubtedly will need faculty input and participation. We need to be prepared to contribute our talents and implement innovative methods of recruitment and retention.
- Improve our Advising office and the service to students.
- We will get advice from an outside consultant
- We will put an incentive program together for faculty advisors
- Increase the number of scholarships. The College’s Advancement director is working on this but could use our assistance.
- Look at the budget for ways to fund incentives for existing students (e.g., tuition break for seniors, parking paid for, etc.)
- Increase the number of students through an expanded HSCP.
- Improve programs that promote student success:
- Work with the Provost’s office to ensure an improved First-Year experience.
- Improve our A&S 100 courses and evaluate their success.
- Work with Student Affairs to insure that the Advanced Preparation Program is fully operational.
- Improve the marketing of our programs.
- Increase international student enrollment.
4.The College will increase sponsored program research funding by 25% by 2012.
We will:
- Create an A&S Research Board (CARB)
- Provide travel funds to faculty
- Increase our support of graduate students (see above)