Strategic Vision

Inclusive Communities

• Integrate holistic admission criteria in all programs 
  • Initiate holistic admission in prelicensure BSN program by 2022
• Increase diversity of faculty, staff and students (%)
  • Increase 3% in diversity over baseline (document baseline) by 2022
• Expand Program and Concentrations in response to community needs
  • Initiate accelerated 2nd degree BSN program by 2022

Passionate People

• Recognize students, faculty and staff for excellence
  • Develop and implement guidelines to recognize excellence in students, staff, and faculty by 2022.
• Promote regional, state and national leadership for students, faculty and staff in professional and community organizations
  • Develop a database to track the regional, state, and national leadership roles of faculty involved in professional and community organizations.
• Increase/advance service opportunities
  • Collaborate with the Office of Leadership & Civic Engagement to enhance faculty, staff, and student participation in service activities by 2022.
  • Develop a database to track staff, faculty, and student participation in OLCE service activities by 2022.
• Expand alumni engagement
  • Work with SON Alumni Association to develop an alumni volunteer database (for SON activities) by 2022.
• Increase faculty and staff recruitment and retention
  • Clearly define and publicize the School of Nursing’s commitment to recruitment and retention of faculty and staff
  • Develop a database to track turnover and vacancy rates for faculty and staff by 2021
  • Outline strategies to retain faculty and staff by 2021

Innovative Practices

• Expand Interprofessional Education (IPE) across programs
  • Create and conduct a baseline assessment and establish goals for each program by 2021.
  • Implement an IPE in 1-2 programs, e.g. MSN education or administration by 2022
• Engage in global transcultural learning opportunities
  • Develop 3 study abroad and 3 national global transcultural opportunities for faculty and students by 2022.
• Adopt best practices and principles for innovative learning experiences, including service-learning
  • At least one prelicensure BSN course will be approved as a service-learning course by 2022.
• Address health disparities through research and practice partnerships
  • At least 50% of research faculty will be involved in health disparities research
  • Develop at least one new research partnership each year.