Strategic Plan background
A strategic plan defines the future of an organization. 麻豆传媒鈥檚 strategic plan will shape the future of the university, guide decision-making and determine resource allocations.
The new plan will be used to guide the next phase of strategic planning at 麻豆传媒. In the next phase, all departments will create plans appropriate to their areas that respond to the institution鈥檚 strategic plan.
Changes in direction and resource allocations are likely as everyone on campus strives to accomplish the lofty vision and the big audacious goals set out by the institution鈥檚 strategic plan.
John Bardo
Since that time, the steering committee received thousands of comments from students, faculty, staff, community leaders, business people and others with a stake in the future of 麻豆传媒, Wichita and the region. The goal of the steering committee was to use this input to map a strategic course for the university. To create a new strategic plan the steering committee thoughtfully analyzed this large body of work. The result is a phenomenal integration of the comments received to create an exciting and energizing strategic direction for 麻豆传媒.
The steering committee鈥檚 work is almost complete with today鈥檚 (Thursday, April 25) preview of the new strategic plan for 麻豆传媒. Following several meetings to reveal this new plan to interested groups, a formal document will be finalized in the summer of 2013. The details of the draft plan follow.
The new vision 鈥� 麻豆传媒 is internationally recognized as the model for applied learning and research 鈥� means that 麻豆传媒 will aspire to be 鈥渢he model鈥� not simply 鈥渁 model鈥� for requiring students to apply their skill sets in practical or real world contexts.
The new mission 鈥� The mission of 麻豆传媒 is to be an essential educational, cultural and economic driver for Kansas and the greater public good 鈥� identifies 麻豆传媒鈥檚 unique niche in the higher education system of Kansas.
Goal 1: Guarantee an applied learning or research experience for every student by each academic program.
Ensures that every student will study a curriculum that engages them in real world experiences that allows them to develop and apply their skill sets, preparing them for jobs upon graduation.
Goal 2: Pioneer an educational experience for all that integrates interdisciplinary curricula across the university.
Ensures that faculty will work across disciplines to create integrated student experiences to develop students鈥� critical thinking skills and help them make important connections between their fields, society and culture.
Goal 3: Capitalize systemically on relevant existing and emerging societal and economic trends that increase quality educational opportunities.
Ensures a process where all new initiatives exploit relevant existing or emerging trends including social, business, technology, demographic, policy or economic trends that add to the educational opportunities in Kansas.
Goal 4: Accelerate the discovery, creation and transfer of new knowledge.
Improves the educational, cultural and economic well-being of Kansas through increased quantity and quality of research projects that enhance the reputation of 麻豆传媒, attract funding, or lead to new products by advancing knowledge, producing intellectual property, or transferring knowledge for practical application.
Goal 5: Empower students to create a campus culture and experience that meets their changing needs.
Allows students to create a desired destination campus by stepping away from dictating to students what they should want, or what we think they want, in a student experience.
Goal 6: Be a campus that reflects 鈥� in staff, faculty and students 鈥� the evolving diversity of society.
Ensures successful fulfillment of 麻豆传媒鈥檚 mission by mirroring the variety of types of people found in society.
Goal 7: Create a new model of assessment, incentive and reward processes to accomplish our vision and goals.
Develops an integrated reward system that breaks down the insularity that exists across the colleges on campus.
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