Celebrating and Refocusing UTC Strategic Plan

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Celebrating and RefocusingUTC
Strategic Plan

• Years 1-3

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Strategic PlanAccomplishments

• I. Partnerships for Students (Teaching and
  Learning)
• Surveyed departments concerning student
  participation regarding service learning
• Developed a Quality Enhancement Plan focusing on
  critical thinking
• Hired assistant provost for Retention and Student
  Services
• Created Center for Advisement and Student Success
• Hired professional advisers for freshmen
• Initiated Freshmen Academic Success Tracking
• Increased student retention

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Strategic PlanAccomplishments

• I. Partnerships for Students (Teaching and
  Learning) continued
• Implemented learning communities
• Developed and implemented online learning courses
• Implemented regional tuition for undergraduate
  and graduate students
• Implemented Banner Student Information System
• Received external recognition for distinctive
  programs with community engagement
• Carnegie elective classification as community
  engaged institution
• Presidents Honor Roll for community service
• Achieved higher levels of satisfaction from
  students and faculty

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Strategic PlanAccomplishments

• II. Partnerships for Education and Research
• Reorganized administrative staffing in
  Grants/Research to provide centralized support
  for special projects
• Identified four high-priority areas for research
  and engagement
• Sponsored public symposium on environmental
  research school readiness
• Increased external funding
• Expanded direction of SimCenter National Center
  technology for business and industry through
  nonprofit Applied Resource Center
• Implemented university-wide research day
• Purchased building for Center for International
  Programs
• Expanded global relationships, especially with
  Germany
• Conducted substantial inventory of arts programs
  for the public and all outreach activities

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Strategic PlanAccomplishments

• III. Partnerships for Diversity
• Established Multicultural Center/Womens Center
• Established Office of Equity and Diversity
• Created equity and diversity advisory committee
• Developed and implemented diversity training for
  faculty/staff search committees
• Completed post-Geier statement of commitment to
  diversity
• and access
• Increased percentage of staff and students of
  diversity
• Increased number of students registered with
  Office of Students with Disabilities
• Created a more accessible campus automatic door
  openers, handrails, elevator upgrades, locksets,
  tactile map
• Completed way-finding map

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Strategic PlanAccomplishments

• IV. Enabling Partnerships
• Produced campus technology plan
• Updated all buildings on main campus to wireless
  network access
• Upgraded speed bandwidth and added Internet 2
• Installed and updated podiums in classrooms
• Transferred student email accounts from Mocsnet
  to Google
• Administered satisfaction surveys to
  faculty/staff/students
• Extended use of social media to students
• Gained 1 ranking in metro market among ages 35
  64
• Increased UTC selectivity factor for admissions
• Formed Black Alumni Association
• Increased alumni giving

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Strategic PlanAccomplishments

• IV. Enabling Partnerships continued
• Hosted campus workshop on sustainability
• Completed and submitted to AASHE UTCs greenhouse
  gas emissions inventory
• Developed climate action plan
• Hired new sustainability officer in Facilities
• Achieved designation as a state-certified
  arboretum
• Benchmarked library expenditures against four
  sets of peers
• Worked with Tenn-Share to begin subscription to
  FirstSearch Worldcats base package
• Increased overall satisfaction with the Lupton
  Librarys collection and services
• Acquired 12 Bloomberg stock market terminals
• Installed a stock market ticker in Finance
  Department, COB

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Strategic PlanAccomplishments

• IV. Enabling Partnerships continued
• Increased number of graduate students
• Enhanced the availability of graduate
  assistantships
• Increased the number of graduate degrees awarded
• Hired new football coach
• Shattered the single-season attendance record at
  Finley Field
• Increased the GPA for student athletes
• Passed the NCAA Academic Progress Rate with all
  teams above the 925 benchmark and three teams
  with perfect score of 1000
• Had two teams (mens and womens track) named
  All-American
• Had 14 student-athletes named to 2009-10 Winter
  Academic All Southern Conference
• Increased number of Mocs Club members
• Exceeded UTC campaign goal
• Increased deferred giving

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Strategic PlanAccomplishments

• IV. Enabling Partnerships continued
• Implemented UPRAC as a budget and fiscal
  allocation advisory body
• Enhanced financial accountability by publishing
  budget materials online
• Responded successfully to severe budget
  reductions of about 22 percent since 2008
• Implemented Efficiency and Effectiveness Task
  Force

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Strategic PlanAspects in Progress

• I. Students Teaching and Learning
• Experiential learning
• Persistence to graduation (retention)
• Level of satisfaction
• Level of engagement
• Advisement, mentoring
• Improved performance on tests
• Online, evening, weekend offerings
• Distinctive programs
• Recruitment of students by regional employers
• Impact of general education curriculum on student
  learning

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Strategic PlanAspects in Progress

• II. Education and Research
• Number of global/international partnerships
• Impact of global/international partnerships on
  student learning and attitudes
• III. Diversity
• Levels of acceptance
• Integration of diversity into courses
• Evaluation of partnerships to increase diversity
  opportunities
• Achievement/maintenance of diverse faculty and
  staff

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Strategic PlanAspects in Progress

• IV. Enabling Partnerships
• Environment of openness in decision making
• Faculty/staff recruitment and retention
• Graduate School development increased number of
  programs and GAs
• Diversification of UTC financial resources
• Documentation of increased media visibility
• Faculty satisfaction with support for research,
  creativity, scholarly activity
• Evaluation of benefits of partnerships and
  Carnegie designation
• State funding for laboratory science and health
  sciences buildings
• Recognition as a demonstration site for
  environmentally sustainable university facilities
• Average faculty salaries exceeding state-national
  peer groups
• Financial support for expansion of library
  collections

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Refocused PlanAchieving Institutional
Distinctiveness

• Institutional Reputation
• Charge To monitor and report on UTCs progress
  in enhancing its academic quality as evidenced in
  its regional and national reputation. To
  identify ways to support distinctive academic
  programs, such as the Honors College, online and
  graduate degree programs.
• Student Success and Satisfaction
• Charge To provide oversight on expanded
  experiential learning opportunities, richer
  connections to the campus, enhanced advising,
  expanded integration of multicultural and
  diversity activities into the curriculum and
  campus life, and increased rates of retention and
  degree completion.

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Refocused PlanAchieving Institutional
Distinctiveness

• Engagement with Partnerships
• Charge To conduct an inventory of external
  educational and research partnerships as a
  starting point for this focus.
• Resource Development
• Charge To support UTCs strategic direction and
  mission through efficient and diversified human,
  technological, and fiscal resources.
• The Built Environment
• Charge To continue to develop an environmentally
  sustainable campus that is safe, well maintained,
  accessible, and aesthetically appealing.
• Communication/Marketing
• Charge To widen the channels of communication.