How the Strategic Planning Goals and

Objectives Capture AQIP's Nine Categories

PROGRESS*

Category Eight:

Academic Affairs and Enrollment Management

'03

'04

'05

'06

'07

Planning
Continuous
Improvement
examines how an organization
aligns what it
wants or hopes to do with what it actually does.

1C

Maintain a comprehensive research program in support of enrollment management, retention, student success, graduation rates, and professional/graduate school/job placement rates.

2

3C

Develop applications for national accreditation to include Art (NASAD), Business (AACSB International), and Recreation (NPRA).

2

4A

Determine the factors that lead to non-persistence of student, including high-ability and honor students, and develop plans that address these factors.

2

4E

Develop programs such as Exploration and Discovery, to increase retention of students.

2

Information Technology

3A

Continue to implement enhanced network services using the fiber optic network cable and the upgraded network systems. Implement network service, including enhanced e-mail service, automated campus-wide communications application, centralized file storage/backup, and redundant/automated fail-over services.

O

Facilities and Grounds

2D

Develop a plan to enhance uniform interior and exterior campus signage.

2

3A

Prioritize renovation and construction based on educational needs, infrastructure, space utilization, and aesthetic assessment.

3B

Develop a plan for future building placement, general design, and purpose.

2

Image and Advancement (A)

3B

Market the opportunities for students at Western to participate in applied learning, including internship experiences, student-faculty research projects, and leadership development.

O

A2B

Develop a comprehensive prospect and donor research program for institutional advancement.

2

Community Service, Community Partnerships, and Workforce Development

2A

Establish a database of existing service opportunities and a responsible entity for information and coordination.

4

Planning and Budgeting

1A

Review our administrative structure and its units.

O

1C

Prepare annual operating and capital needs forecasts for Western relative to institutional goals and priorities.

O

2A

Ensure that procedures and schedules exist for five-year comprehensive plans with annual updates, allowing for appropriate interactions between related planning units.

4

2B

Develop formats for forecasting and reporting of resource needs for use in unit and institutional planning/budgeting documents.

4

3B

Review institutional policies and practices beginning at the institutional level for effectiveness and consistency.

O

*(Progress) Key

1

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

2

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

3

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.

O

On-going planning, program, or funding process. Annual report on results.

I

Implementation to be undertaken in another year.