Mission, Values and Goals

Objective 1.1: Increase CHHS faculty salaries relative to CUPA mean - benchmark

• Tactic 1: Provide equity adjustments as resources allow
• Tactic 2: Hire at or near CUPA mean salaries

Objective 1.2: Implement effective marketing and recruitment strategies

• Tactic 1: Assist with positions for accompanying spouse/partner
• Tactic 2: Offer new faculty and staff competitive salaries and benefits
• Tactic 3: Offer summer research support for new tenure-track faculty
• Tactic 4: Utilize University and CHHS initiatives to recruit and hire diverse faculty

Objective 1.3: Support faculty involvement in professional development to facilitate research, teaching and service

• Tactic 1: Provide travel support for participation in state, national and international conferences
• Tactic 2: Provide consultation and training through Rstats
• Tactic 3: Provide support for external speakers
• Tactic 4: Encourage participation in FCTL activities

Objective 1.4: Advocate for policies and procedures that facilitate staff excellence

• Tactic 1: Support professional development activities for staff
• Tactic 2: Develop and implement staff recognition strategies
• Tactic 3: Develop staff salary increases as a priority at CHHS budget committee meetings

Objective 1.5: Encourage and develop strategies for master's entry-level faculty, in areas of need, to pursue doctoral studies with a commitment to remain at MSU

• Tactic 1: Provide support for faculty in targeted, highly competitive fields to pursue doctoral studies

Objective 2.1: Market College programs through multiple venues

• Tactic 1: Create/develop an effective marketing plan and recruitment materials
• Tactic 2: Coordinate recruitment and admission efforts with International Services Office
• Tactic 3: Incorporate results from University-wide marketing study

Objective 2.2: Ensure high quality student advising

• Tactic 1: Encourage faculty to complete basic and master advisor workshops
• Tactic 2: Monitor advisement quality and satisfaction through a survey
• Tactic 3: Increase staff attendance at basic advising workshop

Objective 2.3: Participate in initiatives for student success

• Tactic 1: Create an inventory of resources that facilitate student success
• Tactic 2: Programs with gateway courses will evaluate and implement strategies to promote student success
• Tactic 3: Promote co-curricular activities and student engagement

Objective 2.4: Increase course access to meet student needs

• Tactic 1: Work cooperatively with other units in the College to provide service courses
• Tactic 2: Continue to investigate and document plan for offering evening, summer, intersession, or distance education opportunities as appropriate

Objective 2.5: Strengthen collaborative relationships across CHSS units and with other educational institutions

• Tactic 1: Review existing and seek new articulation agreements
• Tactic 2: Explore potential models for collaborative accelerated graduate study
• Tactic 3: Increase number of transfer students where appropriate and support successful transitions

Objective 2.6: Increase number of, access to, and publicity for scholarships and assistantships for CHHS students

• Tactic 1: Establish collaborations between units and the Missouri State University Foundation to cultivate new scholarships
• Tactic 2: Highlight currently-available funding for students on the CHHS website and individual unit websites
• Tactic 3: Work with students who may be eligible for nationally competitive awards; create publicity and establish incentives for successful award mentoring

Objective 3.1: Support development and refinement of best practices in teaching strategies

• Tactic 1: Provide support for professional development in teaching
• Tactic 2: Increase access to and utilization of teaching technology
• Tactic 3: Implement per course development and evaluation

Objective 3.2: Explore and prioritize programs for development in strategic areas

• Tactic 1: Explore, at the unit level, development of new programs
• Tactic 2: Explore cost/benefit ratios of potential programs through the CHHS Budget Committee
• Tactic 3: Consider possible synergies and establish priorities for potential programs through the CHHS Administrative Council

Objective 3.3: Evaluate and refine existing programs for continuous quality improvement

• Tactic 1: Facilitate accreditation (initial and re-accreditation) of CHHS programs for which accreditation is available
• Tactic 2: Participate in program review per CHHS schedule
• Tactic 3: Implement and track recommendations flowing from site visits and program reviews

Objective 3.4: Obtain/retain fiscal, physical and human resources to ensure effective program operation

• Tactic 1: Examine budgets, fees and expenses for each program in light of present needs, future needs, and the practices of benchmark institutions
• Tactic 2: Examine use/productivity associated with existing CHHS space, and explore potential uses of reassigned and new space (both on and beyond campus)
• Tactic 3: Review faculty, staff and graduate assistant resources associated with programs and work toward adjustments as needed

Objective 4.1: Establish robust community connections at the College and unit levels

• Tactic 1: Develop or maintain Academic Advisory Boards that meet at least annually to provide professional and academic expertise and advocacy in support of units and programs
• Tactic 2: Maintain the CHHS Dean's Advisory Board to gain input and to inform external audiences about the quality and impact of CHHS programs

Objective 4.2: Develop new and maintain existing experiential learning sites in the community at both the undergraduate and graduate levels

• Tactic 1: Tailor clinical placement sites to community needs, student learning objectives and program plans
• Tactic 2: Explore a variety of experiential learning sites that afford students opportunities for applied learning and community engagement
• Tactic 3: Establish appropriate training, monitoring and incentives for on-site and clinical supervisors/preceptors/educators

Objective 4.3: Identify, promote and track opportunities for student engagement in Public Affairs

• Tactic 1: Communicate relevance of public affairs mission to student learning and development, and encourage faculty to cultivate opportunities for students to participate in fulfillment of the mission
• Tactic 2: Document and monitor student involvement in public affairs (community engagement, cultural competence and ethical leadership)

Objective 5.1: Build cultural competence among faculty, staff and students

• Tactic 1: Encourage participation in campus events and community activities through which faculty, staff and students are likely to encounter difference, enhance knowledge, and hone skill
• Tactic 2: Work with the FCTL to develop training experiences that facilitate course development, assignment creation and classroom elements that promote perspective-taking skills, civility and constructive connections
• Tactic 3: Work with the Director of the Office of Education Abroad to develop new learning opportunities for CHHS students
• Tactic 4: Work with the Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion to assess CHHS efforts and develop effective, new strategies

Objective 5.2: Create a CHHS community (students, faculty and staff) that well reflects the diversity of the world in which CHHS graduates work, lead and achieve

• Tactic 1: Work with multiple campus offices to develop strategies for recruiting highly qualified and diverse faculty, staff and students
• Tactic 2: Seek funds for scholarships that attract highly qualified, diverse students
• Tactic 3: Assess and optimize retention of diverse students, faculty and staff
• Tactic 4: Explore funding source to support a scholarship or assistantship for a student from an ethnic minority or diverse background

Objective 6.1: Facilitate faculty pursuit of extramural grants and address important questions (research grants) and needs (service grants)

• Tactic 1: Work with the Office of Sponsored Research and Programs to develop strategies for building grantsmanship in CHHS
• Tactic 2: Increase the number of faculty registered for Community of Science funding alerts
• Tactic 3: Establish incentives for grant writing

Objective 6.2: Support high-impact research

• Tactic 1: Continue to provide consultation and training through Rstats
• Tactic 2: Encourage interdisciplinary connections within CHHS to facilitate research tuned to the mission of the College
• Tactic 3: Encourage and reinforce student involvement in research
• Tactic 4: Work with units and the provost to share costs of needed high-priority research equipment
• Tactic 5: Track research productivity and work with units to publicize success

Objective 1. Increase research productivity of faculty in CHHS as evidenced by the number of publications in peer-reviewed journals and the number of national and international presentations

Strategy 1. Increase faculty awareness and understanding of the expectations of a focused program of research and external funding.

1. Dean will communicate CHHS research goals to faculty
2. Publicly acknowledge faculty successes in research
3. CHHS will sponsor an invited speaker series focusing on research

Strategy 2. Identify focus areas for the development of nationally recognized research

1. Create a web accessible site with faculty research interests and research resources
2. Hold faculty forums for faculty with complementary research interests to discuss collaborative opportunities
3. Refine list of research areas and designate level of support (Table 1)

Strategy 3. Enhance infrastructure to facilitate quality research in Health and Human Services

1. Labs and equipment
   1. Provide adequate research space
      1. Identify and remodel existing space into research laboratories
      2. Upgrade animal facility in PROF 368 to NIH standards for 2 species
   2. Equip labs with state of the art equipment
      1. Identify needed equipment
      2. Utilize internal sources of support: CHHS salary savings, Provost’s major equipment requests, faculty research grants
   3. Submit external proposals for equipment and laboratory resources
2. Ensure that all faculty with an interest in research have 9-hour teaching load
   1. Hire additional faculty in understaffed schools
   2. Encourage differential workloads in schools with adequate faculty
   3. Faculty with 9 hr loads will be required to submit an annual research plan and report accomplishments of previous year
3. Provide research support staff in key areas
   1. Graduate assistants
   2. Research specialists
   3. Research technicians
4. Increase library holdings and databases that facilitate research
   1. Public Health
   2. Nursing
   3. Nutrition
   4. Others
5. Purchase licenses for specialized software
   1. Statistics (PSY)
   2. Nursing

Strategy 4. Enhance faculty research and publication expertise

1. Hire new faculty with research credentials and experience
2. Provide mentoring in research for faculty
3. Provide CHHS Summer Research Stipends
   1. New hires – 1^st summer with acceptable plan
   2. Competitive awards for other tenure track faculty
4. Support year-long sabbaticals
5. Organize writing teams to promote journal submissions and provide mentoring
6. Consultant involvement to provide

Strategy 5. Expand partnerships with other entities to foster collaborative research

1. JVIC for biomedical sciences
2. St. John’s and Cox Health for clinical research
3. Burrell for mental health
4. Other state, national or international partnerships

Objective 2. Faculty will increase the number of proposals submitted to external funding agencies, the number of funded proposals and the amount of external funding.

Strategy 1. Provide funding for small pilot projects

Strategy 2. Provide proposal preparation support

1. Develop templates with key information for health grants and make available on CHHS web site
2. Hire grants specialist or consultant to assist with planning/writing/editing CHHS proposals
3. Support for attendance at grant writing workshops
4. Encourage applications for Sponsored Research support to consult with program specialists in Washington
5. Release time or stipend for statistical consultation
6. Assistance in budget development (CHHS Budget Officer)
7. Release time for PI to write proposal
8. Incentives in the form of travel award for each PI and co-PI

Strategy 3. Grant management support

1. Provide budget management support (CHHS Budget Officer)
2. Provide workshops for PI and staff involved in grant management