• Define and communicate more clearly the relationship among our many planning and assessment efforts. Lead responsibility: President's Advisory Council

Academic Programs

• Conduct a broad-based examination of the growth in academic initiatives to determine whether new developments are drawing resources and energy from what we have clearly established as our priority: a strong, liberal arts based undergraduate education. Lead responsibility: Academic Affairs.
• Institutionalize systemic academic outcomes assessment. Lead responsibility: Academic Affairs

• Review the faculty complement to ensure that it is appropriate given our mission, resource capabilities, and evolving environment. Lead responsibility: Academic Affairs
• Review the process for recruiting and hiring new tenure-track faculty, with an eye to identifying best practices, streamlining the process, recruiting and retaining faculty of color, communicating approvals in a timely fashion, and empowering departments to provide a faculty that is in students' best interests. Lead responsibility: Academic Affairs
• Provide leadership and appropriate mechanisms for faculty to strengthen policies and procedures for evaluation, tenure and promotion, in accordance with the Collective Bargaining Agreement, so that criteria and expectations are inclusive, clearly defined, and consistently interpreted and implemented. Collaborative responsibility: Academic Affairs and APSCUF
• Strengthen academic advisement by defining and communicating faculty and student roles and responsibilities in advisement, providing professional development that empowers faculty to advise students properly, empowering students to use the tools the University has provided, and identifying and promulgating best practices both within the University and elsewhere. Lead responsibility: Academic Affairs

Student Life Programs

• With assistance from our finest scholars, staff, and students, identify best practices and models for freshman year experience programs that would best meet the needs of our students. Lead responsibility: Academic Affairs and Student Affairs
• Implement the Student Alcohol Abuse Task Force's recommendations, which hold promise for stemming unhealthy student behavior. Lead responsibility: Student Affairs

Support Services for Students

• Continue to strengthen efforts to improve the recruitment, retention, and graduation of Latino and African-American students. Lead responsibility: Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, and Social Equity
• Develop a strategic plan for improving academic advisement to students. Establish a mission for the Academic Advisement office that clarifies how it supports faculty advisement of students. Lead responsibility: Academic Affairs
• Strengthen our tutoring assistance in writing across the disciplines. Lead responsibility: Academic Affairs
• Continue to implement appropriate coordination among the Admissions and Financial Aid offices and academic departments in order to award financial aid packages earlier. Lead responsibility: Academic Affairs and Student Affairs

Information Technology and Library

• Now that technology and information literacy objectives have been defined for the General Education curriculum, develop the mechanisms to ensure that students achieve these objectives. Lead responsibility: Faculty Senate
• Develop and implement promotion and tenure criteria that acknowledge and encourage the use of instructional technology in research and pedagogy. Provide opportunities for faculty to showcase ways they have integrated information technology into their research and pedagogy. Collaborative responsibility: Academic Affairs and APSCUF

Equity, Fairness, and Inclusiveness

• Continue to strengthen the efforts described in other chapters to improve the recruitment, retention, and graduation of Latino and African-American students and the recruitment and retention of faculty and staff of color. Lead responsibility: President's Advisory Council

Community Service

• Assess the needs of non-traditionally-aged students and their perceptions of our programs and services, and develop plans to address their needs. Lead responsibility: Academic Affairs and Student Affairs
• Conduct an in-depth examination of the Adult & Continuing Education program to determine its strengths, weaknesses, and future status. Examine options for staffing off-campus offerings that may enhance the success of the program. Reevaluate the policy of initially restricting ACE students to part-time enrollment. Lead responsibility: Academic Affairs

Effective Management

• Continue to sustain an atmosphere of openness so that collegiality and shared governance can flourish. Lead responsibility: President's Advisory Council
• Nurture a climate in which participation on committees is perceived as service that is rewarding and rewarded. Work to increase the efficiency of committees by providing training for committee chairs in running meetings and completing assignments efficiently. Collaborative responsibility: President's Advisory Council and APSCUF

Resource Development

• With State System leaders, develop a more predictable funding formula. With area legislators and State System leaders, intensify efforts to develop strategies to attain an adequate base of operating and capital funding streams. Lead responsibility: President's Advisory Council
• Continue implementation of the capital facilities master plan. Lead responsibility: Finance & Administration
• Determine the best way to ensure continuing long-range planning for support for technologies and instructional equipment. Lead responsibility: Information Technology and Finance & Administration
• Plan endowment growth to reflect our most pressing needs. Continue to develop our information base of potential donors, and increase support for the many faculty and staff without capital campaign experience who will want to participate in the next campaign. Lead responsibility: University Advancement