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CCSU
School of Business
Strategic Business Plan |
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Goals, Strategies and Tactics
Goals are long-term objectives that will directly
contribute to achieving our outcomes. Strategies are
specific actions (or a set of actions) that will be
taken to achieve a goal or group of goals. Tactics are a
further breakdown of strategies and can be readily
assigned to an individual or group (not included below).
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Goal A: Improve the
advising system for students.
Goal
Team: Faculty Overseer/SOB Leadership Team (LT) |
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Strategies and Tactics |
Who |
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1. Reassign time to faculty to oversee academic advising in
the school.
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Audit files over the summer.
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Audit the information given to incoming
freshman.
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Develop an institutionalized system of
advising for freshman, sophomores and transfers.
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Establish quality controls to ensure tighter
compliance.
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Train new faculty in advising techniques,
the curriculum, and our students’ needs.
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Develop faculty advisor handbook.
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Faculty Overseer |
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2. Ensure that all students contact their advisor.
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Each department assess their ability to
maintain contact with advisees. Develop remediation
strategies if necessary.
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Follow-up on how students are registering
without contacting their advisor.
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Faculty
Overseer / Department Chairs |
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3. Make forms available online to help students
with their advising. Leverage technology. |
University Assistant |
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4. Monitor and evaluate the enrollment management
process (2.5). |
SOB LT |
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5. Consider a 1st year experience course.
Continue discussion. |
SOB LT |
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Goal B:
Improve faculty productivity and performance.
Goal Team: SOB Leadership Team (LT) |
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Strategies and Tactics |
Who |
When |
1.
Institute a Faculty Incentive system:
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Augment salaries with special
incentives for rewards.
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Create initiatives for external
funding.
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SOB
LT |
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2.
Evaluate performance in teaching, scholarship, and service.
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Connect performance to release time
for scholarship and/or service.
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SOB
Dean w/ input from the Chairs |
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3.
Improve schedules to have better productivity within the
boundaries of the University and accreditation standards. |
Department Chairs / Dean |
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Goal C:
Maintain a collegial and collaborative faculty culture to
the entire school.
Goal Team: Department Chairs |
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Strategies and Tactics |
Who |
When |
1.
Mentor faculty with an interdisciplinary team approach.
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Develop a mentoring program for new
faculty.
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Department Chairs |
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2.
Continue to hold school-wide collaborative open-meetings,
assemblies and workshops.
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School social events and receptions.
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Share scholarship through brown
bag-type events.
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Faculty and Dean |
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3.
Ensure the flow of School information to faculty.
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Dean |
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4.
Communicate and reinforce the SOB Strategic Plan. |
SOB
LT |
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Goal D:
Regularly review our core curriculum and learning environment to
develop our students into business professionals; make changes
where necessary.
Goal
Team: Assessment Coordinator / Curriculum Committee |
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Strategies and Tactics |
Who |
When |
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1.
Develop a list of standards and use them. |
SOB LT
w/ Assessment Coordinator |
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2.
Analyze the integration of knowledge and skills in various
business courses. |
Curriculum Committee |
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3.
Benchmark core business curriculum to “Best Practices” and / or
other schools. |
Assessment Coordinator |
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4.
Evaluate and upgrade where necessary our learning facilities to
incorporate appropriate technologies and databases. |
Dean /
Curriculum Committee |
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5. Conduct MBA review to determine final
disposition. |
MBA Committee |
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Goal E:
Institute a system for assessment for the School of Business.
Goal
Team: Dean / Assessment Coordinator |
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Strategies and Tactics |
Who |
When |
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1.
Identify an individual as an assessment coordinator. |
Dean |
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Develop an assessment plan:
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Determine what should be assessed.
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Develop assessment program (faculty) for
Fall.
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Review/evaluate the assessment results
and make changes accordingly.
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Assessment Coordinator |
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Goal F: Improve
availability of resources.
Goal
Team: SOB Leadership Team (LT) |
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Strategies and Tactics |
Who |
When |
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1.
Institutionalize review, assessment and planning within SOB. |
SOB LT |
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2.
Encourage creation or expansion of endowments to SOB.
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Consider naming opportunities for
portions of the buildings.
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Dean |
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Goal G:
Establish a means to market our accomplishments.
Goal
Team: Communications Coordinator / SOB Leadership Team (LT) |
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Strategies and Tactics |
Who |
When |
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1. Hire
a Communications coordinator for the SOB. |
Dean |
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Develop a Marketing Plan. |
Communications Coordinator |
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3.
Communicate our Strategy and Vision for a rigorous program. |
SOB LT |
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Implement a system to celebrate student achievements. |
Communications Coordinator |
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Sept. 06 |
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Publicize our successful graduates:
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Document and get the word out on what our
graduates are doing.
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Create a system to measure the jobs
students are getting.
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Communications Coordinator |
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Goal H:
Improve recruiting, attracting, retaining and utilization of
faculty resources.
Goal
Team: SOB Leadership Team (LT) |
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Strategies and Tactics |
Who |
When |
1.
Improve advising and mentoring of faculty (full and part-time).
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Establish multi-disciplined mentoring
team with senior faculty.
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SOB LT |
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2.
Provide professional development opportunities for part-time
faculty. |
Department Chairs |
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3.
Examine our course offerings to better fit with faculty
resources. |
Department Chairs |
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