EMU Strategic Planning Workshop
Review and refinement of goals and objectives
Date & Time:
Location:
June 6, 2013- 3pm-5pm
Room 205, Welch Hall
Attendees:
Participants
Sue Martin
Raouf Hanna
Matthew Evett
Walter Kraft
Ted Coutilish
James Gallaher
Ellen Gold
John Lumm
Desmond Miller
Sandy Norton
John Koolage
Judith Kullberg
Casey Wooster
Colin Blakely
John Lumm
Murali Nair
Melody Reifel Werner
Tara Lynn Fulton
Mike Fox
Loren Osgood
Matt Baer
Organization
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Agenda
• Update on progress to date
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Further refinement of goals and objectives, language and content.
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Discussion on next steps
Discussion Items:
• Dr. Martin gave an update and indicated that the Mission, Vision and Values were reviewed by
the BOR and they would be adopted at the upcoming June board meeting. Examples of the
several of the Goals and Objectives were shown to the BOR as well and they were very happy
with them. Dr. Martin talked about performance indicators and initiatives must be measurable. A
campus forum will be held next week to present our work and ask for feedback.
• All outputs from Workshop 6 were reviewed and refined. Outputs given below:
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Student Engagement and Success
§ Goal 1: Create and expand purposeful learning opportunities inside and outside
classrooms, in the community and globally.
o Objective 1.1: Document, review and continue to expand field experiences
(internships, practicum, co-op activities), leadership trainings, service learning,
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community engagement, and other learning opportunities across the university
and beyond.
o Objective 1.2: Continue to strengthen and cultivate distinctive experiences
through undergraduate research programs.
Goal 2: Develop a comprehensive and systematic approach to improve services and
processes that enhance student persistence and graduation.
o Objective 2.1: Identify, design and implement seamless connections between
non-academic programs and services that facilitate student persistence and
graduation.
o Objective 2.2: Connect students through existing structures to resources that will
support student well-being across the university. (e.g. social, physical, emotional,
financial etc.)
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Objective 2.3: Optimize use of technology to deliver services for students.
Goal 3: Prepare students to successfully and meaningfully interact with people from
all backgrounds.
o Objective 3.1: Support students to become actively engaged citizens with strong
cultural awareness.
o Objective 3.2: Build a university culture in which respect, responsibility, student
pride and diversity are valued and celebrated.
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High Performing Academic Programs and Quality Research
§ Goal 1: Provide students with high quality instruction and learning opportunities.
o Objective 1.1: Recruit and retain talented faculty.
o Objective 1.2 Ensure the general education program meets the needs of
students to function in the larger society.
o Objective 1.3: Ensure faculty and instructors are supported to keep up with
pedagogical and technological advances in the classroom and online.
o Objective 1.4: Create and support innovative academic programs and
pedagogy.
o Objective 1.5: Ensure classrooms are equipped with appropriate equipment and
resources.
§ Goal 2: Increase research to attract external funding and improve student education,
with a focus on graduate education.
o Objective 2.1: Increase research and creative activities.
o Objective 2.2: Increase sponsorship of academic research and creative activities
(grants, endowments, etc.).
o Objective 2.3: Systematically address growing staffing and infrastructure costs
of scholarship (lab equipment, data curation, library costs).
§ Goal 3: Ensure there are systematic processes in place to identify programs to be
created, expanded or maintained.
o Objective 3.1: Develop a process for identifying programs to be created,
expanded and maintained that serve a demonstrated need of the
community/region
o Objective 3.2: Encourage growth of successful existing programs and reallocate
resources from programs that have outlived their usefulness or can be rightsized.
o Objective 3.3: Create a framework for the development of new academic
programs that meet market needs.
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Institutional Effectiveness
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Goal 1: Foster a diverse, ethical, and respectful workplace with effective and
transparent communications in place, that together support the university's mission.
o Objective 1.1: Invest in leadership development to support leaders to model
ethical behavior and strive for institutional effectiveness.
o Objective 1.2: Ensure that leaders model ethical behavior.
o Objective 1.3: Invest in professional development.
o Objective 1.4: Support employees in becoming actively engaged citizens with
strong cultural awareness
o Objective 1.5: Facilitate effective, timely and transparent two-way
communication.
Goal 2: Improve our processes and resource allocation to continuously improve
operational effectiveness and fiscal stewardship.
o Objective 2.1: Examine university processes for improvement and functional
realignment, and implement resource allocation to improve performance.
o Objective 2.2: Develop an institutional knowledge management program to
leverage existing resources.
Goal 3: Establish a culture of innovation by recognizing and rewarding new or
creative quality programs and initiatives.
o Objective 3.1: Establish mechanisms to support effective innovation.
o Objective 3.2: Establish division / department innovation goals (for innovative
revenue generation and cost reduction).
Service and Engagement
§ Goal 1: Enhance community partnerships with EMU.
o Objective 1.1: Enhance and disseminate Academic Service – Learning
opportunities.
o Objective 1.2: Leverage EMU resources and eminence to advance Michigan
nationally.
§ Goal 2: Improve community perceptions of EMU.
o Objective 1.1: Explore ways to utilize more effectively university activities
(including athletic and arts related activities etc.), as a vehicle towards engaging
the community and improving perceptions of EMU.
o Objective 1.2: Institute activities and procedures to ensure environmental
sustainability and awareness at EMU.
Next Steps
Activity
Updated and edited deck provided to Casey
Continue refinement of initiatives and performance measures
Target Date
June 7, end of day
During month of June
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