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DLMD Strategic Plan

University Goal #1- Academic Excellence

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Provide distinctive academic programs that effectively prepare students to become leaders and productive citizens in the global community

Objective

Action Plan / Pathways

Timeline & Responsibility

Assessment Methods

Market the Graduate Certificate Program in Online teaching.  Promote program across disciplines to expand enrollments.

Meet with Deans/Division Chairs as appropriate to get agreements for cross-listing of courses. Develop a marketing strategy with SXL and OPA.

Program Coordinator to meet with Deans/Chairs regarding cross listing and with SXL and OPA to develop marketing strategy.

Summer 2009.

Successful cross listing of courses. Marketing review.

Appearance of marketing materials.

Increased enrollment.

Explore with the Provost, Deans and Division heads, strategies for how best to leverage the human and physical resources of DLMD to enrich, expand, and develop programs in Broadcast Journalism, Broadcast Communications, Technologies and Production 

Goals are to expand offerings, improve quality and attract increased enrollment.

Initially meet with Vice-Provost Stoll and Dean Martin and then with Division Head and Faculty to establish an effective process for cross-division collaboration.

 

Deans and Division Chairs in both DLMD and CAS for the general strategy development. Spring-Summer 2009.  Faculty of both CAS and DLMD to work out an ongoing process of collaboration and implementation.

Twice yearly reviews by Division Chairs

Annual review with Deans and Vice Provost

Twice yearly joint faculty meeting to review progress.

Continue Division’s excellence in media course development using media technologies and new pedagogical techniques to provide creative forms of direct engagement in collaborative learning with students and scholars abroad to provide international/global perspectives and multi-cultural learning environments.  Develop external relationships, contracts, grants, partnerships to develop cutting edge educational materials in multiple formats for marketing and distribution nationally/ internationally.

Leverage the resources of the Luce Grant Project on Religion in China in collaboration with international scholars to develop a distance learning course with new text published by Oxford Univ. Press.

Work with Renmin University on collaborative course on Chinese Philosophy.

Update successful existing courses.

Develop new media course related to environment using HD technology

Division head to work with faculty and staff to develop these possibilities.

Final book draft due to Oxford Nov 2009.  Development plan due by that time.

Meet further with Renmin Univ. and develop project and grant proposal.

December 2009

DLMD Instructional Development Coordinators.  In process - ongoing

Development plan for course including implementation schedule by Nov. 2009

Report on development meetings and grant development.

Evaluation by diverse criteria established over decades including relevance, market demand, etc.