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- Review and refine admissions standards
- Ensure small to moderate-size classes, instruction by experienced,
- full-time faculty, personalized instruction
- Create Teaching and Learning Center
- Improve incentives for and recognition of teaching excellence
- Conduct comprehensive evaluation of General Education
- Review and identify undergraduate programs for enhancement,
consolidation or discontinuance
- Assess student achievements throughout academic careers
- Provide academic support to improve students' academic performance
- Improve academic advising
- Promote and support cultural and ethnic diversity
- Integrate academic and social experiences of residential and
commuter students
- Commit to principle of service to students
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- Deans develop and apply criteria for measuring quality and appeal
of graduate program and establish priorities for support
- Deans review all graduate programs and identify programs for
enhancement, consolidation, and discontinuance
- Develop new doctoral and masters programs in selected areas
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- Facilitate greater access for non-traditional students through
transfer credit, evaluation of experience and articulation
- Expand late afternoon, evening, weekend, and short-term courses
and programs and provide campus services at convenient hours
- Develop wider range of distance education courses and programs
- Explore non-degree curricular responses to professional needs
of employed students, e.g., preparation for professional certification
- Review implications of distance education to residency requirements,
credit tranfer policies, and traditional academic expectations
- Devise and promote recruitment strategies for part-time and
off-campus students
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- Define scholarship and research/creative expression appropriate
to disciplinary and interdisciplinary work and to contributions
to professional and societal goals
- Foster faculty and student scholarship
- Explore "centers of distinctiveness" that incorporate
scholarship with dissemination and application of knowledge
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- Establish or expand partnerships with agencies, institutions,
and organizations to provide research, technical assistance, training,
and consultation
- Develop consortium of higher education institutions in West
Central Indiana
- Expand faculty and student internships in public and private
agencies and organizations
- Expand University partnership with Terre Haute community and
Wabash Valley to advance economic, cultural and societal well-being
of area
- Seek external funding to support University centers
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- Improve recruitment and retention of students, faculty, and
staff from under-represented groups
- Encourage and support inclusion of multicultural perspectives
in academic programs and campus life
- Expand instructional support, advising, and retention services
for students of diverse cultural backgrounds
- Implement in-service programs for University personnel which
promote cross-cultural communication and relations
- Foster campus values, norms, and conduct which increase sense
of community
- Strengthen international focus of curriculum through recruitment
of faculty with international expertise and through workshops
- Strengthen faculty and student exchange opportunities
- Encourage students to acquire foreign language facility and
to study abroad
- Work with student leaders to build networks between international
students and other campus organizations
- Participate in statewide initiatives to expand economic, cultural,
and social ties with nations such as Mexico, Canada, and Japan
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- Pursue interdisciplinary connections in existing undergraduate
and graduate program and research projects
- Develop new and strengthen existing interdisciplinary courses
and degree programs
- Address organizational impediments to collaborative work
- Seek external funding in support of interdisciplinary efforts
- Encourage students to pursue double majors and minors and to
study abroad
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- Stimulate intellectual discussions through speakers series,
visiting scholars programs, and other forums for the expression
and evaluation of ideas
- Sustain and enhance on-campus support of the arts
Expand partnerships with local and area cultural organizations
- Seek expanded funding of creative expression through collaborative
proposals among University departments with local organizations
and agencies
- Display art and ISU history throughout the campus to enhance
aesthetics
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