How the Strategic Planning Goals and

Objectives Capture AQIP's Nine Categories

PROGRESS*

Category One:

Enhancing Academic Quality

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Helping Students Learn examines how an organization designs the teaching and other processes that promote student learning, and how effectively these processes perform their functions.

Goal 1.0

Become a national center of excellence in applied learning and a national model for the new American regional university.

OBJ. 1.1

Improve student learning through instructional innovations, scholarship, and applied learning.

GOAL 2.0

Provide a learning environment that encourages substantial academic achievement, connects knowledge and practice, and promotes regional service.

OBJ. 2.1

Develop and implement teaching and learning strategies that emphasize critical thinking skills, including questioning, interpreting, analyzing, synthesizing, and creative problem solving.

OBJ. 2.3

Integrate social and cultural activities into the general studies offerings.

Sustaining Institutional Accreditation Priorities

Goal 2.0

Strengthen the University-wide initiative to attract, engage, and graduate a diverse student body.

OBJ. 2.3

Evaluate and improve the first-year experience of students to help achieve recruitment and retention goals.

Building Connections

Goal 1.0

Engage Western actively in the educational development of the region.

OBJ. 1.3

Increase student participation in co-curricular experiences that foster academic, career, and personal development.

OBJ. 1.4

Increase student participation in co-curricular experiences that foster academic, career, and personal development.

Building Graduate Programs

GOAL 1.0

Develop and promote excellent graduate programs aligned with the University mission of applied learning, applied research, and professional service in the community and region.

OBJ. 1.6

Continuously improve the quality of graduate programs.

*(Progress) Key

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Start-up initial actions undertaken; concept work completed; early organization efforts underway; 25% to goal.

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Process underway and on track; steady progress being made; funding may be secured; 50% to goal, but no results yet.

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Deeply deployed; substantial elements of a project may be nearly or fully completed; 75% to goal and beginning to have results.

4

Fully deployed; 100% success on results.

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Implementation to be undertaken in another year.