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Strategic Plan

Leading Our Future 2021-2026

Educational Excellence

STRATEGIC GOAL: Enhance academic and professional education with innovative, competency-based and student-centered pedagogies to prepare creative, competent and ethically responsible nurse leaders equipped to advance human health and health care.

KEY OBJECTIVES

  1. Redesign program curricula to reflect competency-based standards and workforce expectations.
  2. Optimize interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPE-CP) that builds students competency in team-based care that facilitates accessible, value-based, patient-centered care.
  3. Expand the degree program, specialty tracks, certificates and continuing education offerings to grow in pre-eminence and enrollment aligned with peer institutions.
  4. Advance teaching excellence.

Student-Centered Excellence

STRATEGIC GOAL: Cultivate a student-centered culture where people from all backgrounds thrive.

KEY OBJECTIVES

  1. Strengthen programming and services to optimize academic and professional success of students.
  2. Implement an academic success program that identifies at-risk students early and provides support for academic progression.

Research and Scholarship Excellence

STRATEGIC GOAL: Lead transformative research, implementation science and scholarship that addresses the health challenges of vulnerable, rural and underserved populations.

KEY OBJECTIVES

  1. Build and support multi-disciplinary collaborative partnerships and teams.
  2. Enhance funded or sponsored programmatic, research and scholarship infrastructure.
  3. Strengthen external funding portfolio that is aligned with the school's research priorities.
  4. Recruit, develop and retain outstanding research faculty from diverse backgrounds that align with school research priorities.
  5. Create a pipeline of scholars prepared to engage in and lead doctoral-level research.
  6. Support the advancement and dissemination of high-quality, high-impact, interdisciplinary programs of scientific inquiry and health care delivery.

Community Engagement Through Rural Clinical Practice and Partnerships

STRATEGIC GOAL: Foster and invest in innovative clinical and health promotion models through strategic partnerships that improve health and health care access, value and quality.

KEY OBJECTIVES

  1. Development of Clinical Enterprise and Nursing Faculty Practice.
  2. Community partnerships and collaboration.

Resource Stewardship

STRATEGIC GOAL: Diversify and sustain revenue streams and the infrastructure to support growth of current and new educational programs, development of the clinical enterprise, and optimize resource utilization and operational efficiencies.

KEY OBJECTIVES

  1. Optimizing resource utilization and operational efficiencies.
  2. Increase philanthropic support of the School of Nursing.
  3. Develop and implement standardized and transparent policies and processes.Plan strategic, mission-driven growth of programs that meet the needs of our communities.