College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Strategic Initiatives & Goals
Approved January 11, 2010
Initiative 1: ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
CHASS will maintain a commitment to academic excellence.
Goal: Enhance academic excellence through comprehensive teaching development and assessment processes and program review, including ongoing review of these processes.
Goal: Set and maintain appropriate expectations for research, scholarly, and creative activities among faculty.
Goal: Increase support for research, scholarly and creative activities and for faculty and staff development.
Goal: Develop new academic programs to respond to emerging work force and professional needs of the state and broader region.
Goal: Increase the percentage of FT tenure-track faculty.
Goal: Hire and retain high-quality faculty.
Initiative 2: STUDENT ACCESS AND SUCCESS
CHASS will prioritize student success by creating an environment that promotes student academic, social, and personal development.
Goal: Provide high-quality, accurate academic student advising.
Goal: Foster student retention by promoting student involvement in campus life.
Goal: Develop and implement a Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) program to ensure that specific writing competencies have been met prior to graduation.
Goal: Emphasize the development of critical thinking in curricula within CHASS.
Goal: Support the recruitment of quality students and participate in such endeavors as needed.
Initiative 3: DIVERSITY
CHASS will strive to create and maintain an environment that reflects regional diversity and global citizenship.
Goal: Create a culture that supports diversity among students, faculty, and staff.
Goal: Develop curricula that implement issues of diversity that historically, socially, and culturally contextualize the contemporary world enabling students to more fully participate as global citizens.
Goal: Recognize and support the university’s special role as a Hispanic Serving Institution.
Initiative 4: IMAGE BUILDING
CHASS will secure its reputation in southern Colorado as the academic and cultural resource for the arts and social sciences.
Goal: Promote the college’s role in general education.
Goal: Improve public internal and external representation of departments.
Goal: Highlight CHASS programs emphasizing the arts, cultural activities, and special departmental activities.
Initiative 5: COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
CHASS will be recognized as a partner in community asset and resource building.
Goal: Maintain existing opportunities and develop new opportunities for community and regional engagement as an academic and cultural resource.
Goal: Utilize university assets (intellectual, academic, economic, social, etc.) to serve the local and regional community and to centralize these efforts.
Goal: Develop and support existing promotional efforts to strengthen relationship between the university and community.
Initiative 6: RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
CHASS will allocate its resources through strategic management, based on college and department goals, facility and technology needs, and faculty and staff planning.
Goal: Assess and advocate for improved faculty and classroom technology and facility needs.
Goal: Collaborate with the library faculty to improve learning resources.
Goal: Assess and advocate for improved college facilities.
Goal: Achieve salary equity for all employees of CHASS.
Goal: Provide support for research, scholarly and creative activities and for faculty and staff development.
Initiative 7: SHARED GOVERNANCE
CHASS will engage in both the spirit and the letter of shared governance practiced by the university.
Goal: Encourage and recognize appropriate faculty and student representation on relevant and varied committees.
Goal: Promote professional rights and responsibilities of faculty.
Goal: Improve APR and performance communication.
Goal: Strengthen communication among students, staff, faculty, and administration.
Goal: Achieve optimum collaboration among faculty, administration, and students in decision- making processes.