Strategic Plan - Imagine 2023

• Execute the strategic enrollment plan for Medical Laboratory Science programs.
• Engage campus and online students with effective active and innovative teaching and learning strategies.
• Develop and implement a Masters degree in Medical Laboratory Science.

• Successfully complete the MPH program accreditation through the Council on Education for Public Health.
• Create dual degree programs and/or specializations to meet the public health needs within the state and nation.
• Expand postgraduate educational opportunities in public health.

• Implement, continually evaluate, and improve Curriculum 2022.
• Engage students with effective active and innovative teaching and learning strategies.
• Expand interprofessional education opportunities.
• Increase student exposure to emerging practice areas.

• Enhance education of Ph.D. students to meet the needs of the discipline.
• Recruit ideal candidates and increase on-time graduation of Ph.D. students.
• Increase engagement with alumni.

• Create dual degree programs to meet health care needs within the state and nation.
• Develop practice-based graduate/postgraduate programs to support innovative pharmacy practice.
• Provide continuing professional development in skills needed for advanced practice.

• Enhance recruitment efforts for the College.
• Increase the recruitment of underrepresented populations.

Develop and implement a College Student Success Model.

• Optimize faculty support for professional development.
• Assess and improve start-up packages and faculty salaries and make market adjustments where necessary to produce parity with peer colleges/schools.
• Create efficiency in the execution of our mission.
• Promote a positive and healthy work environment, morale and well-being.

• Increase proportion of faculty assignments that support research and scholarship.
• Enhance investment in research infrastructure.
• Enhance interdisciplinary research.
• Support industrial partnerships and collaborations to advance research commercialization.
• Enhance visibility of the research program.

• Enhance faculty professional development for scholarly activity and dissemination.
• Optimize allocated resources to facilitate scholarly activity.
• Encourage faculty collaboration on practice-based scholarly endeavors.
• Increase student participation in practice-based research and scholarship.

• Lead development of innovative practice as evidenced by scholarly dissemination.
• Educate students and practitioners to enable the implementation of innovative practice strategies.

• Increase enrollment in the respiratory care program.
• Evaluate and implement curriculum changes to better align with the respiratory care degree.
• Successfully complete accreditation of the BS Upward Mobility degree through the Commission on Accreditation of Respiratory Care.