Objectives
[1] Encourage a welcoming, supportive, and mutually respectful relationship between faculty/staff and students.
[2] Strengthen clear, transparent, and frequent communication to students about available services, activities, and resources.
[3] Honor our students’ individual academic, cultural, generational, and geographic experiences while also providing impetus for them to build relationships with multiple groups, both on- and off-campus.
[4] Design visible and virtual spaces that foster connections among students, faculty, and staff.
[5] Create an environment that supports and guides success, starting from the day students choose to be a Maverick and extending through their status as alumni.
| Strategic Initiatives | Key Performance Indicators |
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| Deliver faculty and staff professional development focused on student belonging. [1] |
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| Utilize process improvement to reduce communication barriers between WCCC and CMU. Further extend benefits of university brand to community college stakeholders. [2] |
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| Deploy WiFi 6 university-wide to increase the wireless presence outdoors and better saturation indoors for improved student connections and collaboration opportunities. [2, 4] |
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| Keep current, maintain, and market the Resource Hub available on the Student Services website. [2, 4] |
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| Examine the feasibility of implementing a student communication and engagement app to improve student involvement in co-curricular and extracurricular activities. [2, 3, 4] |
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| Improve delivery methods for messages to students, faculty and staff around belonging and student health/ wellness. [2, 4, 5] |
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| Build on Real Talk Series to (1) develop resources for faculty and staff on understanding our students’ backgrounds and interests and (2) provide programming that builds community and honors students, staff, and faculty of all backgrounds. [3] |
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