Strategic Initiative 3
Prepare Our Students for the Future of Work, Human & Civic Engagement
Outcomes
- Students demonstrate essential skills and competencies that prepare them for a variety of dynamic and rapidly changing professional experiences
- Students have sequenced academic and co-curricular experiences supported by coordinated planning among the colleges, academic programs, the Career Center and Alumni Relations
- The university fosters expanded student engagement in interdisciplinary research and community-based projects
Goals and Objectives
- Transform career readiness to better prepare students for the future of work and civic engagement
- Align institutional communities learning outcomes and the development of essential skills with academic and cocurricular experiences
- Engage parents and families in the life of the university to support student success
- Develop a framework and action plan for ensuring students’ career readiness and the ability to adapt to the evolving nature of work
- Integrate career readiness experiences into academic and co-curricular road maps
- Continue to increase the number of quality service-learning, internship, cooperative education and volunteer opportunities
- Implement civic engagement programs that identify and address problems and needs of local and regional institutional communities
- Facilitate the involvement of all first-year students in civic engagement programs and opportunities
- Create an advisory council to collaborate with community partners in identifying concerns and regional needs
How We Will Measure Our Progress
- Student participation in internships, service learning, research and creative activies
- Levels and varieties of family and parental engagement
- Student participation in career readiness programs and services
- Community partnerships