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Strategic Plan Assessment and Update Process

August 11, 2005

Strategic plans are not static documents. Rather, they are charts that help us navigate amidst changing conditions. To this end, we must (a) evaluate our progress toward achieving our stated goals, (b) examine the currency and focus of our goals, and (c) revise our strategies and goals as needed. This process must be meaningful to departments and must promote a sense of the forward movement of both the departments and the college. The following outline delineates the annual schedule of the process as well as the structure and content of required reports. Additional resources have been set aside by the Dean’s office to assist chairs with this effort.

 

Annual Review of Assessment Information (October)

During the summer, the College Assessment Coordinator will collect data from departments, summarize data, analyze trends, and prepare reports. These reports will be provided to departments by October 1. Departments are responsible for the following tasks:

  1. review and discuss reports at the program and department levels,
  2. respond to any areas of concern highlighted in the reports,
  3. document discussions and plans for program improvement through program and department minutes, and
  4. submit program and department minutes to the College Assessment Coordinator.

 

Annual Strategic Plan Assessment and Update (March)

By the end of February, each department chair will complete a report that follows the following outline:

I. Assessment of Departmental Progress in terms of:

A. Students

    1. Recruitment
    2. Retention
    3. Time to degree
    4. Quality
    5. Diversity
    6. Student learning outcomes
    7. Adequate yearly progress

B. Faculty (per FTE)

    1. Scholarship
    2. Recognition
    3. Diversity
    4. Recruitment, retention, and development
    5. Instructional workload
    6. Instructional quality
    7. Service contribution
    8. Grants and contracts
    9. Advising load

C. Department

    1. Program rankings
    2. Accreditation:
      1. NCATE mandated data
      2. Data required by other applicable accreditation bodies
    3. Advising Quality
    4. Climate
    5. K-12 collaboration

D. Additional Requirements for Departments with Teacher Education and Advanced Graduate Programs included in NCATE Unit (i.e., EDCI, EDSP, EDHD, EDCP, EDPL)

    1. Compliance with State and Title II requirements
    2. Articulation w/ Arts and Sciences, for EDCI secondary education programs
    3. For departments that provide undergraduate degrees, articulation with MD community colleges as appropriate

II. Evaluation of Goal Appropriateness and Relevance

    1. Review of previous goals, elimination of goals no longer applicable, addition of new goals
    2. Request for updated information to include in new Productivity Notebook
    3. Discussion of significant changes in challenges and opportunities

III. Setting Departmental Goals and Targets

    1. Department goals for next year, including specific targets

 

College and NCATE Unit Assessment and Strategic Plan Update (September through December)

Each September, the College Assessment Committee, which includes representatives from NCATE accredited programs outside of the college, will review data from the program and unit levels and make recommendations. These recommendations will be included in the material provided to the departments by October.

Programmatic and unit data will also be included in the College Level Assessment Report. This report will be presented to a special meeting of the Council of Chairs and College Senate representatives for discussion and recommendations in December.

Each December, the NCATE unit Assessment Report, which includes the COE Assessment Report and the report on the NCATE units housed outside of the college will be brought to the K-16 Committee for discussion and recommendations.

Each March, the College will present the revised College Strategic Plan to the Council of Chairs, and Senate and Assessment Committee representatives.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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