January 2016 Final Reports
- Student Success
- Employee Success
- How can we ensure we hire the right faculty, in the right way and are accurately portraying our institution, our core values and our expectations in the hiring process?
- How do we ensure continued professional development for all employees and increase the 6-year retention rate of exempt and non-exempt staff?
- What are the hallmarks of great teaching and how do we develop excellence and then reward it?
- How do we attract and retain more minority faculty and staff?
- Distinctiveness
- How do we take our community engagement and experiential learning efforts to the next level?
- How do we add career readiness into all programs and add it to Community Engagement and Experiential Learning as University marks of distinction?
- How do we embrace Inclusive Excellence as a distinguishing strength?
- What are our programs of distinction and how do we make them stronger and recognized externally to raise the overall awareness of the academic excellence of ISU?
- What are the major goals of local, regional and state economic development organizations and how could ISU’s programs and activities be better aligned with them?
- Studying what other institutions are doing in their “positioning” and marketing efforts, what can we do to raise our regional, state and national profile?
- Resource and Efficiency
- What opportunities do we have to partner with other institutions, businesses and organizations to provide/leverage resources for our core mission?
- How must we change in order to excel in the future as the state appropriation fails to keep up with inflation and enrollment and tuition increases are limited?
- Review of Pathway to Success: Examining benchmarks and actual achievements relative to current priorities, what goals and initiatives should be carried forward in the new plan?