Phase 3 Goals

STRATEGIC ACTIONS 2020 AND BEYOND

• GOAL: IMPLEMENT BEST PRACTICES THAT ADDRESS STUDENT NEEDS THROUGHOUT THE STUDENT LIFE CYCLE TO INCREASE PERSISTENCE, COMPLETION AND POSTGRADUATE SUCCESS

  Strategy: Ensure academic program plans are up to date, easily understood, and aligned with a highly functional degree audit system.

  Strategy: Ensure all students benefit from holistic, relational and developmental integrated advising (academic, career, student services and counseling).

  Strategy: Develop and deploy comprehensive, integrated and proactive data-informed intervention strategies supported by appropriate technologies that address achievement gaps.

  Strategy: Enhance experiences to engage students in co-curricular and extra-curricular activities.

  Strategy: Improve support and resources for students facing non-academic challenges.

  Strategy: Focus on post-graduation planning across the student life cycle to reinforce the value of completion and enhance career success.

• GOAL: DEVELOP AN ENROLLMENT STRATEGY, INCLUDING ADMISSIONS AND MATRICULATION, THAT ALIGNS WITH A RETENTION, PERSISTENCE AND COMPLETION STRATEGY

  Strategy: Develop an integrated and comprehensive market and brand communication strategy to distinguish the value of the YSU degree.

  Strategy: Develop a cultivation strategy linked to the value proposition of earning a YSU degree for each program of study.

  Strategy: Expand and enhance outreach and engagement with students prior to enrollment.

  Strategy: Develop innovative approaches to increase the enrollment and completion of under-represented international and students from other areas of the state and nation.

• GOAL: CREATE FRAMEWORKS TO OPTIMIZE STUDENT AND POSTGRADUATE SUCCESS

  Strategy: Create a working group to help guide student success objectives and strategies.

  Strategy: Design consultation and reporting expectations to inform the campus community about institutional progress related to student success.

  Strategy: Create and regularly update reports and dashboards related to student progress.

  Strategy: Create a structure of feedback to assess the impact and influence of student success objectives and strategies.

• GOAL: SCALE INNOVATIVE, STUDENT-CENTERED TEACHING TO PROMOTE LEARNING AND INCREASE RETENTION

  Strategy: Update University policies and guidelines, including promotion and tenure documents, to reflect the importance for all faculty members to engage in innovative teaching strategies.

  Strategy: Define expectations and provide additional opportunities for faculty to learn and apply best pedagogical practices.

  Strategy: Enhance the quality, capacity and use of technologies that promotes learning.

  Strategy: Develop tools and adopt practices to improve, evaluate and assess teaching and learning.

  Strategy: Implement a faculty development and mentoring plan.

• GOAL: DEVELOP A CULTURE OF ASSESSMENT AND CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT THAT ENSURES THE QUALITY OF ACADEMIC PROGRAM MAJORS, MINORS, AND OTHER CREDENTIALS

  Strategy: Complete program effectiveness and enhancement review including rubrics for recommendations regarding actionable outcomes.

  Strategy: Identify emerging markets for innovative academic programs, badges, credentials, coursework integration, competency-based education and on-line opportunities.

• GOAL: ESTABLISH UNIVERSAL LEARNING OUTCOMES TO ENHANCE THE VALUE OF A YSU DEGREE

  Strategy: Develop a plan to integrate diversity, equity, and inclusion into the curriculum.

  Strategy: Revise General Education Requirements to reflect transformative learning outcomes.

• GOAL: INVEST IN RESEARCH AND OPTIMIZED INFRASTRUCTURE IN STRATEGIC WAYS

  Strategy: Identify areas of research and scholarship, in addition to the Mahoning Valley Innovation and Commercialization Consortium, that focus on teaching and learning and mutually beneficial community engagement.

  Strategy: Periodically evaluate all campus Centers, Institutes and research initiatives.

  Strategy: Update University policies and guidelines, including promotion and tenure documents, to reflect the importance of the scholarship of teaching and learning and community-based research.

  Strategy: Use systems of reliable data to create insights for well-informed decision-making relating to organizational structures, financial management, and performance management.

• GOAL: WE WILL BE RECOGNIZED AS A COMMUNITY-ENGAGED CAMPUS BY THE CARNEGIE FOUNDATION AROUND THE FOLLOWING AREAS OF FOCUS: EDUCATION; HEALTH; PROSPERITY AND EQUITY; AND ARTS AND CULTURE

  Strategy: Secure regional, state, national, and foundation funding.

  Strategy: Inventory, regularly update and communicate all current community engagement activities.

  Strategy: Develop a framework to optimize and manage the areas of focus within the community engagement priority.

  Strategy: Develop a framework to integrate experiential education, service learning and community involvement into the curriculum.

  Strategy: Improve the planning and coordination of current and new student experience and community engagement initiatives with a focus on employer needs and an informed citizenry.

  Strategy: Update University policies and guidelines for tenure, advancement, and promotion across departments and divisions to reflect the importance of equity, inclusion, and community engagement initiatives and activities.