Strategic Planning Update
University Senate
March 10, 2003
Strategic Areas of Focus
 People (Compensation and
Rewards, Faculty, Staff, Diversity)
 Education and Research
 Community
 Resources and Leadership
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Initiative 2:
Education and Research
Strategy Areas:
 Education
 Research
 Interaction between Levels and
Across Schools and Colleges
 Concentrations of Interest and
Expertise
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Undergraduate Education
GOAL: Continue ongoing efforts to strengthen
and assess the central educational mission
of the undergraduate experience by:
 Creating more experiential learning
opportunities for students:
 service learning activities
 internships
 research opportunities
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Undergraduate Education
(cont’d.)
(Goals, cont’d.)
 Enhancing further the Tulane residential
experience through improved facilities,
living/learning communities, residential
colleges, etc.
 Continuing to expand the first year
experience and make use of New Orleans
as a learning laboratory
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Undergraduate Education
(cont’d.)
(Goals, cont’d.)
 Launching faculty-driven projects that
increase interaction with undergraduates
 Experimenting with curricular design,
delivery and pedagogical approaches that
facilitate student learning
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Undergraduate Education
(cont’d.)
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
 Numerous accomplishments in each of the
respective undergraduate schools and
colleges
 Experimented with Living/Learning
communities; led to establishment of the
TIDES program, with 750 students AY 2002
in 8 themed focus areas
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Undergraduate Education
(cont’d.)
ACCOMPLISHMENTS (cont’d.):
 Established first-year experience,
including reading experience for all new
freshmen with faculty and author
involvement
 Expanded Honors (Fall 03) to include top
Engineering students; plans to expand to
other undergraduate programs
 8 Teaching in Excellence Awards
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Undergraduate Education
(cont’d.)
ACCOMPLISHMENTS (cont’d.):
Office of Service Learning:
 Students engaged: 494 (1998); 727 (2002)
 Courses offered: 5 (1998); 25 (2002)
 Academic internships*: 22 (2000); 23 (2002)
 Hours of community service: ~12,350
(1998); 23,495 (2002)
* # of students placed through OSL only; does not include
departmental internships
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Undergraduate Education
(cont’d.)
ACCOMPLISHMENTS (cont’d.):
Wall Fund Awards:
 Living Learning Communities
 Achieving Information Literacy:
Freshman Writing and Staff
Development
 New residential facilities with Master’s
Residences planned
 University Center renovation
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Undergraduate Education
(cont’d.)
ACCOMPLISHMENTS (cont’d.):
 Business School expansion
 Customer service in Accounts Receivable,
Financial Aid, Registrar, and Career
Services offices improving
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Undergraduate Education
(cont’d.)
GOAL: Increase the quality of the
student body, particularly the
undergraduate student body
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Undergraduate Education
(cont’d.)
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
Improved selectivity:
 Applications: 8,000 (Fall 98); 14,000 (Fall 03)
 Freshman enrollment*: 1476 (1998); 1546
(2002)
 SAT average: 1278 (1998); 1327 (2002)
 Freshmen in top 10% of high school
graduating class: 54% (1998); 61% (2002),
83% in top 25%
*includes University College
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Undergraduate Education
(cont’d.)
ACCOMPLISHMENTS (cont’d.):
 Freshman retention rate: 85% (1998); 87%
(2001)
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Graduate Education
GOAL: Create the vision and plan for
the graduate school and its programs
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Graduate Education
(cont’d.)
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
 Appointed Graduate School Dean
 Completed Graduate School assessment
 Completing self-studies of uptown
sciences programs; external review panel
visit scheduled for April
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Education
(cont’d.)
ACCOMPLISHMENTS (cont’d.):
 Initiated Endowed Fellowship program to
assist recruiting of superior students in
Social Sciences and Humanities;
fellowship award of $4,000/yr + standard
Graduate School Teaching Assistantship
 Increased stipend levels by 15% over 2year period
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Graduate Education
(cont’d.)
GOAL: Continue to build graduate and
professional programs in areas where
the program is or has the potential to
achieve national/international stature
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Graduate Education
(cont’d.)
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
 Continued growth in revenue-generating
Masters programs; 129 students currently
enrolled in 22 Graduate School programs
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Professional Education
GOAL: Selectively expand degree and
non-degree professional programs to
serve the unmet needs of adult
learners regionally, nationally, and
internationally
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Professional Education
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
 Off-campus professional school
expansions, e.g.,
 Business and Engineering in Houston
 University College at the New Orleans
Centre and in Biloxi
 Social Work in Thibodeaux
Wall Fund Award:
 Executive Masters Degree in Clinical
Research Program
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Interaction between Levels and
Across Schools and Colleges
GOALS: Identify faculty-driven programs
that create interaction between levels
and across schools and colleges, such
as:
 degree paths and interdisciplinary
programs
 linkages between schools and colleges
and across educational levels
 linkages between educational and
research endeavors
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Interaction between Levels and
Across Schools and Colleges (cont’d.)
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
 Proposed undergraduate degree program
in Public Health (Fall 04)
Wall Fund Awards:
 Environmental Health Sciences and
Civil/Environmental Engineering
(Engineering, SPTHM)
 Center for Ethics and Public Affairs
(LAS, SoM, Business)
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Interaction between Levels and
Across Schools and Colleges (cont’d.)
ACCOMPLISHMENTS (cont’d.):
 Neurosciences (LAS, SoM)
 Center for Computational Sciences
(LAS, Engineering, SPHTM, SoM)
 NEH Regional Humanities Center (LAS)
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Interaction between Levels and
Across Schools and Colleges (cont’d.)
GOAL: Create degree paths and
structures that allow exceptional
undergraduates to move quickly to
graduate and professional study
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Interaction between Levels and
Across Schools and Colleges (cont’d.)
ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
 Increased the number of 4+1 and 3/2
Master’s programs, e.g., Engineering,
Public Health, Neurosciences, etc.
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Work in Progress: Major Initiatives
Undergraduate:
 Improve student service functions: “Onestop shopping”
 Continue physical facility improvements:
residential, library, instructional space
 Continue to enhance the quality of the
student collegiate experience
(curriculum, co-curricular, extracurricular)
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Work in Progress
(cont’d.)
Graduate:
 Continue to increase stipends to
competitive levels
 Focus on graduate programs with the
potential to be among the best in the
country
 Institutionalize external program reviews
 Increase the quality of the graduate
student body
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Work in Progress
(cont’d.)
Professional:
 Continue to support schools/colleges in
their improvement efforts
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