Kent State University Stark

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Kent State University Stark

• Discussion of Draft Campus Plan
• September 2006

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Mission

• Kent State University Stark will serve the region
  
• as a key intellectual resource
• for economic, social and cultural advancement
• through desired degree and
• professional development programs.

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In all of its activities, Kent State Stark is
guided by the following values

• Access to higher education and creation of
  personal opportunity
• A success-focused environment for students with
  an emphasis on diversity
• Continuous search for truth
• Respect for others
• Preservation of a social order that promotes
  individual freedom and opportunity for all
• Protection and enhancement of the regions
  physical and social environment
• Preservation of campus green space

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Critical Success Factors

• Strengthen the student-centered focus in our
  programs, practices, processes, people,
  facilities, technology and accountability
• Develop academic and training programs to meet
  the needs of our community
• Ensure educational excellence in all programs and
  offerings
• Refine and market a clear image
• Engage the university with the community
• Provide technology that advances instruction and
  job performance

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Vision

• Kent State Stark will be known as the innovative,
  flexible and responsive intellectual resource for
  the people and institutions of Stark County and
  Northeastern Ohio.

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Vision

• Kent State Stark will be a University of Choice,
  with programs of excellence in the liberal arts
  and the professions, providing full- and
  part-time students with the background to be
  successful in their chosen careers and as
  productive members of society.

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Vision

• Kent State Stark, as the premier provider of
  public baccalaureate education in the service
  region, will grow by thirty percent in the next
  decade, with retention and graduation rates
  exceeding the state average.

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Vision

• Kent State Stark will create a culture of
  positive transformation on the lives of all who
  teach, learn and work here. We will empower our
  students to attain the highest standards of
  academic achievement, public and professional
  services, personal development and a lifetime
  love of learning.

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Vision

• Kent State Stark will recruit and retain
  high-quality, diverse faculty, staff and students
  to match or exceed the diversity of our service
  area. We will dedicate ourselves to equality for
  all, to the ideas of openness and freedom of
  expression and appreciation of the ideas and
  perspectives of our culturally diverse society.

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Vision

• Kent State Stark will become and will demonstrate
  that we are an institution that is actively
  engaged in the community, though community
  leadership, experiential and service learning and
  volunteerism. We will be a place where academic
  theory and real-world experiences come together,
  where student and faculty experiences in cultural
  and civic institutions, clinics, social service
  agencies or industry are not extracurricular,
  but combine with the academic experience to
  create transforming learning experiences.

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Goal 1 Develop our image as a major university
with baccalaureate and masters degree programs

• Kent State Stark will
• refine and improve our image and
• deliver a strong and clear message
• to the community and
• to prospective students.

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Goal 1 Develop our image as a major university
with baccalaureate and masters degree programs

• Kent State Stark will define our image by
• Identifying our comparative advantage in the
  region
• Exploring the feasibility of a altering the
  campus name to create a distinct image in the
  community
• Developing and implementing a comprehensive
  marketing plan
• Involving alumni to help elevate the image of the
  campus to the community
• Engage alumni to assist the campus in seeking
  funding for campus advancement and scholarship

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Goal 2 ACADEMIC QUALITY

• Kent State Stark will demonstrate excellence and
  innovation in teaching and learning

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Goal 2 ACADEMIC QUALITYObjective Kent State
Stark will focus on learning by

• Developing an assessment plan focused on learning
  outcomes
• Encouraging writing across the curriculum
• Recruiting faculty with evidence of teaching
  excellence and commitment to student learning
• Providing professional development to support
  teaching excellence
• Supporting faculty in the effective use of
  instructional technologies
• Developing support and commitment to academic
  honesty
• Maintaining small class size
• Exploring opportunities for increased
  experiential learning by students

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Goal 3 STUDENT SUCCESS

• Kent State Stark will
• increase student success and
• baccalaureate graduation rates
• in Stark County.

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Goal 3 STUDENT SUCCESSObjective 3.1 Kent
State Stark will foster student persistence by

• Developing a retention plan for student success
  and support from orientation and the first-year
  experience through commencement
• Increasing the number of scholarships available
  to students
• Exploring methods for tuition discounting
• Using savings from improved efficiencies to fund
  need-based financial aid

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Goal 3 STUDENT SUCCESSObjective 3.2 Kent
State Stark will develop a Sense of Place for
students by

• Offering additional student life programs
• Evaluating student need for day care and other
  support services
• Providing additional non-academic counseling
  services to students, faculty and staff
• Fostering student-run publications
• Exploring student government possibilities
• Exploring athletics possibilities
• Exploring ways to meet students residential
  needs
• Developing campus traditions, convocations, etc.

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Goal 3 STUDENT SUCCESSObjective 3.3 Kent
State Stark will strengthen our recruiting
practices by

• Reviewing our recruiting practices
• Engaging faculty in Campus Visits days, Meet
  Your Major and other recruiting activities
• Updating Web pages to reflect current campus
  strengths
• Intentionally devising public school outreach
  programs as recruiting activities

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Goal 4 RESPONSIVENESS TO REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL
NEEDS

• Kent State Stark will
• meet regional demand for
• academic degrees and
• support programs.

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RESPOND TO REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS Objective
4.1 Kent State Stark will seek to deliver new
academic coursework and programs and deliver
current programs in the most effective manner by

• Researching demand for new majors, minors and
  degree programs, including baccalaureate and
  masters degrees to meet the needs of the region
• Researching demand for flexible and alternative
  scheduling including accelerated programs.
• Hiring an institutional researcher to provide
  needed data and trend analysis
• Exploring the use of distributed learning for
  current and new programs
• Recognizing the efforts of faculty in the
  development and support of alternative programs
  when conducting reappointment, tenure and
  promotion reviews

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RESPOND TO REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL NEEDS Objective
4.2 Kent State Stark will develop criteria for
evaluating program proposals that explicitly
recognize regional needs and the cost of meeting
those needs by

• Researching regional needs
• Establishing parameters for spending for and
  revenue from new academic programs
• Applying these criteria in discussions with
  Academic Planning and Faculty Technology
  committees
• Supporting the discovery of alternate funding
  sources, such as grants through hiring a grant
  specialist

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Goal 5 PARTNERSHIIPS

• Kent State Stark will play a leadership role in
  P-16 partnerships, particularly fostering
  science, technology and mathematics.

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Goal 5 PartnershipsObjective Kent State Stark
will develop and foster partnerships by

• Establishing academic liaisons, articulation and
  completion agreements with P-16 institutions
• Researching possibilities for grant partnerships
• Developing a broad range of programs to engage
  public school students and their parents in
  preparing for college
• Working closely with middle and high school
  counselors and teachers to prepare students for
  college
• Taking an active role in aligning high school and
  college curriculum
• Supporting area teachers and counselors in their
  professional development

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Goal 6 COMMUNITY RELATIONS

• Kent State Stark will be
• the intellectual resource
• to the community.

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Goal 6 COMMUNITY RELATAIONSObjective Kent
State Stark will make its intellectual, physical
and cultural resources available to the region by

• Engaging local arts and cultural groups to
  present programming on campus
• Engaging state and regional groups to host
  academic competitions on campus
• Inviting local school groups to campus programs
  and events
• Establishing a presence on Stark County web sites
  to help young professionals see the cultural
  richness of the area
• Recognizing the engagement of faculty in regional
  social and cultural endeavors when conducting
  reappointment, tenure and promotion reviews

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Goal 6 REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT

• Kent State Stark will
• contribute to
• regional economic development

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Goal 7 REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Objective Kent State Stark will contribute to
regional economic development by

• Working with local leadership to evaluate a local
  economic and social development tax that might
  support both the university and other
  organizations engaged in community development
• Providing economic development and organizational
  research and evaluation services
• Providing training and professional development,
  as well as business counseling to the regions
  businesses to help them achieve a competitive
  advantage

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IMPLEMENTATION TASK FORCES

• Academic Support
• Student Success
• Tuition and Student Fees
• Enrollment Management
• Marketing, Image and Public Relations
• Regional Academic Needs Assessment
• Public School Partnerships
• Sustainability
• Service to the Region

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ACADEMIC SUPPORT TASK FORCE

• will evaluate the learning environment,
  including student success and retention,
  graduation rates, bottleneck courses or
  scheduling, instructional technology, facilities
  and space needs for programmatic growth,
  opportunities for experiential learning for
  students, role of library in instructional
  support.

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STUDENT SUCCESS TASK FORCE

• will develop an ideal student support program.
• Such support may involve working with high school
  mentors, parents, siblings, dependent children
  and others. Services examined range from study
  skills, remedial education and computer assisted
  instruction to on-campus child-care.
• The task force will examine ways to give commuter
  students those elements of campus life that
  contribute to academic success, explore ways to
  meet the residential needs of our students and
  examine the possibility of intercollegiate
  athletics.
• This task force must focus not only on the
  services, but also the financial sustainability
  of such services.

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ENROLLMENT MANAGEMENT TASK FORCE

• will evaluate and recommend new programs,
• new delivery mechanisms, more effective
  scheduling and new markets.
• They will address ways of increasing the number
  of qualified applicants for Kent Stark programs.
• This task force will address not only total
  enrollment but also enrollment in and funding of
  specific degree programs where an adequate number
  of qualified students will determine the success
  of the program.

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MARKETING, IMAAGE AND PUBLIC RELATIONS TASK FORCE

• will help identify our strengths and
  comparative advantage, and work with faculty,
  students, alumni and administrators to develop a
  plan to promote our campus image.

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REGIONAL ACADEMIC NEEDS ASSESSMENT TASK FORCE

• will establish criteria for evaluating degree
  program and support program proposals.
• These criteria will then be applied to a range of
  baccalaureate and post baccalaureate degree
  programs to serve the region with time and site
  specific programs when such programs are
  currently offered on the Kent campus.

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PUBLIC SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS TASK FORCE

• will establish a sustainable public school
  partnerships throughout the region. Recognizing
  that such partnerships are vital to the economic,
  social and cultural development of the region,
  the task force will explore ways of financially
  sustaining such partnerships.
• This task force will work with the Regional
  Needs Assessment Task Force to identify degree
  programs to help teachers, counselors and
  administrators meet their professional
  development needs and to engage teachers and
  counselors to campus as employees or students.
• To address the broad range of responsibilities
  assigned to this task force, it is likely that
  the task force will need to organize with
  functional subcommittees. There may be
  subcommittees to address such individual projects
  as summer camps for middle school students,
  workshops for high school counselors, financial
  aid workshops for parents, algebra curriculum
  alignment, etc

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SUSTAINABILIT AND PARNTERSHIPS TASK FORCE

• will examine options for reducing the cost of
  overhead functions such as grounds management,
  security, purchasing, public relations, food
  services, etc.
• The task force mission will also examine
  opportunities for reducing direct program costs,
  especially in areas of student success, remedial
  education and academic degree programs.

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SERVICE TO THE REGION TASK FORCE

• will make recommendations for developing better
  town-gown relationships and
• establish sources of sustainable funding for
  community service and
• consider modifications to the reward structure so
  that such sustainable funding can be used to
  compensate members of the faculty and staff who
  participate in appropriate regional development
  and corporate training activities.

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