Approved by President Crdenas

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The six UTPA goals addressed by this Outcome
Directed Planning map are

• Provide students with a quality educational
  experience that enables them to complete their
  educational goals in a timely fashion.
• Become an outstanding research institution,
  emphasizing collaborative partnerships and
  entrepreneurship.
• Enhance UTPAs engagement with the community to
  meet challenges and maximize opportunities.
• Collaborate with P-12 schools to enlarge the pool
  of applicants who are personally prepared and
  academically qualified for higher education.
• Infuse Inter-American and global perspectives
  throughout the University community.
• Optimize institutional effectiveness and
  efficiency consistent with high quality
  organizational standards.

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GOAL Provide students with a quality
educational experience that enables them to
complete their educational goals in a timely
fashion.
Objectives
Provide reliable institutional statistics/data to
University offices and programs so they can
improve the quality of the educational experience.
Strategies

• Expand relationships with stakeholders to meet
  their information needs.
• Improve THECB and IPEDS reports by documenting
  these processes in detail and working with
  programmers for accurate programming.
• Improve the accuracy of the data from the Student
  Information System (SIS) that populates our data
  warehouse.

3
GOAL Become an outstanding research
institution, emphasizing collaborative
partnerships and entrepreneurship.
Objectives
Provide data and information to meet grant
writers needs in an easily accessible manner.
Strategies

• Form a team of grant writers and sponsored
  research staff.
• Identify grant writers standard needs.
• Use most efficient and effective tools to provide
  data.
• Continue ongoing dialogue with grant writers to
  make sure the data provided continues to meet
  their needs.

4
GOAL Enhance UTPAs engagement with the
community to meet challenges and maximize
opportunities.
Objectives
Not Applicable.
Strategies

• Not Applicable.

5
GOAL Collaborate with P-12 schools to enlarge
the pool of applicants who are personally
prepared and academically qualified for higher
education.
Objectives
Provide data to University entities tasked with
improving the competency of the P-12 pool.
Strategies

• Consult with the P-16 Council for their data
  needs on UTPA students to feed back to high
  schools.
• Supply data and reports as needed.

6
GOAL Infuse Inter-American and global
perspectives throughout the University community.
Objectives
Not Applicable.
Strategies

• Not Applicable.

7
GOAL Optimize institutional effectiveness and
efficiency consistent with high quality
organizational standards. (Slide 1)
Objectives
Improve OIRE visibility throughout the university
community.
Systematize institutional data extraction,
programming and reporting processes for routine
external reports and internal data requests.
Improve the Handbook of Operating Procedures
(HOP).

• Enhance relationships with stakeholders to meet
  their information needs.
• Expand the online fact book to meet the standards
  set by our peers.
• Include OIRE identifier on all electronic
  correspondence from all staff.

• Improve THECB, LBB, IPEDS and other external
  reports and surveys by documenting these
  processes in detail and working with programmers
  for accurate programming.
• Improve the accuracy of the data from the Student
  Information System (SIS) that populates our data
  warehouse.
• Involve stakeholders in all areas of reporting
  processes through the Data Accuracy, Timeliness
  and Availability (DATA) Team.
• Develop standards to manage all electronic files
  in OIRE.
• Work with other departments to develop standards
  of variable names/labels.

• Identify stakeholders for each policy in the HOP.
• Simplify HOP processes.
• Receive approval from Executive Committee for HOP
  processes.
• Implement approved processes.

Strategies
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GOAL Optimize institutional effectiveness and
efficiency consistent with high quality
organizational standards. (Slide 2)
Objectives
Coordinate institutional assessment and planning
processes.
Support executive decision making.
Improve OIRE processes.

• Monitor the Outcome Directed Planning Process
  with IPAC.
• Collect annual action plans and assessment
  reports from all UTPA units and post them on the
  web.
• Support the Institutional Planning and Assessment
  Committee (IPAC).
• Monitor the Stewardship Councils with IPAC.
• Support the Universitys continuous quality
  improvement process.
• Identify and implement best practices for
  environmental scanning.

• Support the institutions enrollment projections
  process.
• Develop custom reports and systems.
• Support with data and information the task forces
  appointed to develop recommendations to achieve
  the objectives in the Presidents ODP maps.
• Maintain the COMPACT, state and UT Systems
  accountability systems and other reports.

• Implement continuous quality improvement.
• Assure cross-training for all critical processes
  and reporting.
• Develop standards to manage all electronic files
  in OIRE.
• Work with other departments to develop standards
  of variable names/labels.

Strategies