Strategic Roadmap
PRIORITY 1: STUDENTS FIRST
1.1 Student Academic, Professional and Personal Success Goals
- Promote academic excellence among students
- Support student success, progression and retention
- Strengthen incoming freshman class
- Deliver academic courses and programs in the most effective manner
Key Priorities
- Boost efforts to craft schedule of classes to meet the needs of students
- Maintain academic rigor
- Strengthen the relationship among students, faculty and advisors
- Bolster initiatives for grants and scholarships for all qualified students
- Improve and promote student research options
- Strengthen students’ connections to career opportunities and internship programs
- Continue to mitigate student debt through financial literacy education
- Advance efforts to revise First Year Experience (FYE) program to enhance retention and to strengthen the first-year student class
- Expand student social, co-curricular and pre-professional activities
- Continue to involve high-achieving current students in recruitment
- Increase efforts to create programmatic options for all students at all levels of academic readiness
PRIORITY 2: A DISTINCTIVE KENT STATE
2.1 Faculty Excellence Goals
- Promote excellence in teaching
- Promote excellence in faculty research and creative activity
- Maintain a vibrant academic community
Key Priorities
- Support faculty use of innovative strategies, course offerings and interdisciplinary faculty partnerships
- Increase support and active recognition of faculty research and creative activities
- Increase the recognition and celebration of outstanding teaching
- Foster effective communication and collaboration among all campus constituencies
- Continue to strive toward effective shared governance
- Continue to cultivate a respectful environment in the classroom
2.2 Campus Community Goals
- Build and support relationships within the campus community
- Promote excellence in all non-teaching staff performance
Key Priorities
- Continue to cultivate a respectful environment in the workplace
- Support the professional development of all campus constituencies
- Devise new ways of including the families of campus citizens in the life of the campus
- Nurture diverse campus constituencies such as veterans, LGBTQ students, first-generation students, international students, etc.
PRIORITY 3: GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS
3.1 Global Awareness Goal
- Enhance the global cultural awareness of all campus constituencies
Key Priorities
- Strengthen opportunities in support of study abroad and study away exchange programs
- Reaffirm commitment to and respect for diversity and cultural awareness in the classroom
- Stress the importance of diversity in the recruitment of all community members
PRIORITY 4: REGIONAL IMPACT
4.1 Image and Community Relations Goals
- Promote ºÚÁÏÍø Stark as the preferred choice in the region for education and economic partnerships
- Build and support relationships within the wider community
- Respond to regional needs
- Enhance image as a community asset
Key Priorities
- Emphasize the ways in which our degree programs meet the dynamic educational and employment needs of the region
- Identify community partners/stakeholders for select programs, including experiential and service learning programs
- Conduct ongoing research to determine economic growth areas in the region
- Support faculty, staff and administrators’ engagement with schools, businesses and organizations to meet community needs
- Develop additional academic, articulation and completion agreements with area colleges and universities
- Promote the Conference Center and Corporate University as avenues for the business and professional community
- Engage local arts and cultural groups to promote reciprocal relationships
- Connect ºÚÁÏÍø Stark alumni to the campus
PRIORITY 5: ORGANIZATIONAL STEWARDSHIP
5.1 Sustainability Goals
- Increase traditional and non-traditional revenue streams
- Develop cost-reduction strategies and budget efficiencies
- Act in environmentally responsible ways
Key Priorities
- Maximize enrollment at ºÚÁÏÍø Stark
- Expand current course offerings and degree programs
- Create new and innovative courses, certificates, degree programs and professional development opportunities
- Nourish current and create additional fundraising opportunities
- Increase efficiency and accountability in developing operating budgets
- Develop a campus and community education program in environmental sustainability
- Pursue innovative partnerships to bring new energy technology to campus