Educating The Next
Generation of Leaders
Strategic Plan Update
Presentation to the Board of Trustees
October 17, 2012
Five Broad Principles
Civic Engagement
■ 21,451.25 total service hours
■ 519 students completed service
■ 77 faculty/staff completed service with
college sponsored program
■ 350 students in service-learning courses =
7,153.25 hours in the community
■ 131 community agency partnerships
Civic Engagement
■ 19 President’s Volunteer Service Award
Winners
■ Reflected in Ethical Life service-learning
courses
■ Deeply integrated into Strategic Initiatives:
– Living Learning Communities
– First Year Experience
Global Connectivity
■ Expanding Study Abroad opportunities is an
important Strategic Initiative
■ We have seen significant increases in all
indicators:
Global Connectivity
■ Students abroad for academic purposes:
– 2009-2010: 4
– 2010-2011: 22
– 2011-2012: 31
• 41% INCREASE FROM 2010-2011!
Global Connectivity
■ Agreements with international institutions
– 2009-2010: 0
– 2010-2011: 1
– 2011-2012: 4
– Seoul Women’s University, Hamburg
University of Applied Sciences, University of
the Sunshine Coast, Linnaeus University
Global Connectivity
■ Connects to many other strategic initiatives as
well:
– Global Studies Major (6 majors currently)
– Living Learning Communities
• All 3 LLC’s traveling to Costa Rica this year
Global Connectivity
■ 2011-2012 trips
– John Cigliano took a group of students to
Guyana
– Nursing students went to Belize
– Suzanne Weaver received faculty
development funding to do research in Nepal
Women’s Leadership
■ Women’s Leadership Institute is an
important strategic initiative
– Arlene Peltola named coordinator of WLI
– Partnership with Power of Women
– Women’s Business Summit hosted at CCC
in June with Gloria Steinem as the keynote
speaker
Women’s Leadership Institute
■ Undergraduate Leadership Certificate
■ Executive Leadership Academy
– Launching series of 5 seminars on topics
such as: Effective Leadership,
Entrepreneurship, Effective Communication,
Working for Change, and Career Strategy
– Aimed at entry level working women to midcareer working women
Women’s Leadership
■ Office of Leadership and Student
Development
– Leadership Office positions available 20122012: 281
– Average number of leadership positions per
student leader: 1.39
– Percentage of traditional students in
leadership positions: 26%
Women’s Leadership
■ Explicitly connected to strategic initiatives:
– First Year Experience
– Women’s Leadership Institute
Scholarship, Creativity,
Liberal Arts
■ In 2011-2012
– Faculty published 10 articles, 1 book
chapter and one Readers Theatre script
– Faculty made 25 presentations professional
conference
– Faculty were featured in 2 art exhibitions,
acted in 1 play
Strategic Initiatives
SAGE
■ Expansion into on-line learning
■ Focus on community outreach
Pan-European MFA in
Creative Writing
■ Not originally a Strategic Initiative, but part of
initiative to increase graduate programming
■ Inaugural class will begin residency in Dublin in
July 2012
■ http://mfa.cedarcrest.edu/
Pan-European MFA in
Creative Writing
■ 5 students in distance mentoring with
published authors
■ Mentors include Gwyneth Lewis, Poet
Laureate of Wales
On-line business degree
■ Launch of first fully on-line undergraduate
major
■ Business administration
■ Flexible: students can choose
to do any proportion of courses
on-line, from 0-100%
Child Welfare Certificate
■ 24 students enrolled
■ Combined with
– Social Work
– Criminal Justice
– Psychology
– Business
Global Studies Major
6 majors, 1 minor
Living Learning Communities
■ Year 3 (2012-2013)
■ C.R.E.A.T.E (Community Art)
■ C.A.R.E. (Social Justice)
■ E.A.R.T.H. (Environmental Stewardship)
– Trip to Costa Rica planned for Spring 2013
– Incorporating entrepreneurship
Media Studies/New Media
■ Convergence Lab opened Fall 2011
■ 2 Media Studies majors, 1 New Media
major
Multicultural Center
Multicultural Center
■ Location in Butz
■ Formation of ALANA student group
■ Talking Circles
■ Multicultural Teas
■ Other programming
Reading Specialist:
14 students enrolled
Writing Resource Initiative
■ Partially implemented
■ Pitch the on-line journal of Art and
Literature
■ http://www.cedarcrest.edu/ca/pitch/index.s
htm
Art Therapy
■ After one complete academic year, we
have 33 majors enrolled.
■ Added half-time faculty in Art Therapy
■ Actively planning for a Master’s
■ Building Art Therapy Studio in Alumnae
Hall
MSN – Reading Hospital
■ Not originally a strategic initiative
■ Proposal solicited by Reading Hospital in
December
■ 12 students currently enrolled