Strategic Planning
Our Strategic Plan
Completed May 2019
VALUES
- We value the preparation of skilled health professionals.
- We value excellence in education and lifelong learning.
- We believe in modeling a culture of respectfulness and inclusivity to produce culturally competent professionals in health-related fields.
- We value resourcefulness to help transform our programs.
VISION
- The School of Allied Health Sciences will lead in creating educated health and human performance professionals who are innovative advocates, scientists, practitioners, and educators.
MISSION
- The School of Allied Health Sciences leverages unique health-related disciplines using a collaborative and resourceful approach to deliver high-quality education and scholarship that advances lifelong health.
GOALS
Unification
To identify common needs across the school and define processes for equitable distribution of resources.
Steps toward implementing:
- Identify assets, identify needs, determine key performance
indicators relative to department specific benchmarks. - Identify common needs – curricula, teaching, administration,
research, facilities – across departments - Enhance recruitment, marketing, and advising efforts to attract
and retain students
Collaboration
To create a culture of collaboration and inclusivity between and amongst distinctive departments.
Steps toward implementing:
- Reformat annual school-wide meeting with breakout sessions and opportunities to brainstorm ideas for growth organized around common interests
- Conduct an in-depth curricular review of all programs across the SAHS to minimize duplication of content and incentivize sharing common classes
- Provide opportunities for fun social interaction for all (faculty, students, staff, administration). Consider a joint community service project.
Communication
To create and maintain timely and accurate communication that is accessible and relevant to all stakeholders.
Steps toward implementing:
- Establish regular and ongoing communication between School of Allied Health Sciences departments and stakeholders (internal and external)
- Create a “need to know” dedicated webpage with a protected portal entry for posting of department agendas and meeting minutes (include frequent questions and answers and provide discussion forums for sharing information and posting classified ads (ie., home for rent, etc.)
- Establish Communications Committee – survey faculty for input on communication needs
Scholarship
To strengthen our scholarship presence.
Steps toward implementing:
- Identify and publicize distinctive strengths in research being conducted across School of Allied Health Sciences.
- Increase professional development opportunities for faculty
- Provide and incentivize scholarly mentoring of faculty
- Create clear definitions of the various forms of scholarship for
differing faculty roles within and across departments. Communicate them to all. - Establish Research Committee / Research Seminars / Journal Club
Our Planning Process
In 2019, we organized a Strategic Planning Task Force for the School of Allied Health Sciences and teamed up with Dr. Lynn Owens to help with creating a visionary plan for the future of the school.
Dr. Owens collaboratively engaged our Strategic Planning Process which, in addition to interviews with key leaders and stakeholders, will also include focus groups with students, faculty, and community partners. Our goal in forming a Strategic Planning Task Force was to develop a Vision, Mission, Goals, Objectives, and Strategies that align with the core values of our school.
Meeting Minutes
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