Goal I: Foster Engaged Learning
Purdue University Calumet will expand resources and partnerships to increase student opportunities to use their education for productive lives in a rapidly changing global environment and for the benefit of the communities they inhabit.
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Fully Implement the Experiential Learning Requirement for Undergraduate Baccalaureate Students.
- Identify experiential learning opportunities such as internships, practica, senior design projects, study abroad, undergraduate research, service learning, and cooperative education that are tightly integrated into students’ academic programs and engage students in these opportunities.
Metric: Ensure that beginning with students admitted in Fall 2008, 100% will meet the experiential learning requirement upon graduation.
Timeline: Measure progress annually.
- Expand graduate and undergraduate research opportunities on campus.
Metric: Increase student participation in research by 5% each year.
Timeline: Measure progress annually.
- Form partnerships to create sufficient numbers of work experiences, many of which will be paid, for students to satisfy their experiential learning requirements.
Metric: Develop a catalog of 300 experiential learning partners creating at minimum 900 numbers of work experiences.
Timeline: Measure progress annually.
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Expand global engagement of our student community.
1. Expand study abroad opportunities
Metric: Increase student participation in study abroad by at least 200%.
Timeline: Measure progress annually.
2. Increase presence of multi-national students on campus
Metric: Increase percentage of international students to 10% of the student body with no more than 25% coming from any one country.
Timeline: Measure progress annually.
3. Expose students to global issues in their curriculum
Metric: Create an international component for each academic program.
Timeline: Measure progress annually.
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Create active learning environments.
Metric: Create two demonstration/interactive instructional classrooms.
Timeline: By 2011.
Goal II: Prepare an Educated Workforce and Citizenry for our Region
Purdue University Calumet will provide resources, expertise and support to aid the economic, educational, cultural and environmental vitality of our communities.
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Selectively increase undergraduate enrollments.
- Target high-achieving academically prepared students who are pursuing baccalaureate degrees.
Metric: Increase by 15% admission of targeted students.
Timeline: Measure progress annually.
- Target new market students who fit Purdue University Calumet’s geo-demographic profile.
Metric: Increase admission of students from targeted, geo-demographic markets by 30%.
Timeline: Measure progress annually.
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Expand graduate enrollments.
- Increase graduate enrollment to 15% of our student body.
Metric: Increase graduate school enrollment annually by 10%.
Timeline: Measure progress annually.
- Develop master’s level programs with distance education options.
Metric: Create 3 online Master’s degree programs.
Timeline: By 2013.
- Increase graduate student financial support.
Metric: Create 10 (.5 FTE) new graduate aid positions per year.
Timeline: Measure progress annually.
- Develop graduate certificates in targeted areas.
Metric: Increase total enrollment in all graduate certificate programs by 100% annually.
Timeline: Measure progress annually.
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Stimulate the creation of businesses in our region related to targeted growth areas identified by the State of Indiana: advanced manufacturing, logistics, computing technology and life sciences.
Metric: Create at least 100, new sustainable jobs through the work of the Small Business Development Center, the Entrepreneurship Center, and the Hammond Incubator.
Work toward 50% of these jobs in targeted growth areas.
Timeline: By 2013.
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Provide professional development support and academic outreach to the Hammond Academy for Science and Technology and other professional development school sites in Northwest Indiana.
Metric: Develop the curriculum for the Hammond Academy for Science and Technology.
Provide support for the school organization and staff.
Timeline: By 2010 and ongoing.
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Expand career development and placement services to Purdue Alumni.
Metric: Increase alumni served by 5% annually.
Timeline: Measure progress annually.
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Expand arts and cultural programming in our region.
Metric: Increase the number of arts and cultural programming activities by one each year.
Timeline: Measure progress annually.
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Establish or strengthen partnerships with organizations and industry to address environmental issues.
Metric: Establish a minimum of one new environmental relationship each year of the plan.
Timeline: Measure progress annually.
Goal III: Improve Student Success
Purdue University Calumet will motivate, retain and graduate our students, most of whom manage multiple responsibilities of school, work and family.
—3.1—
Expand use of contemporary learning technologies to provide a variety of course and degree delivery methods.
- Support a wide range of course and degree delivery methods to meet the needs of our multifaceted student body.
Metric: Use web-based, instructional tools in at least 60% of courses.
Timeline: By 2011.
- Develop virtual laboratories so students may access software tools and hardware from off-campus locations.
Metric: Develop at least 3 virtual laboratory courses utilizing technology to deliver instruction off campus.
Timeline: By 2009.
- Develop the technology infrastructure and facilities to create flexible learning spaces that attract, challenge and engage students while serving their diverse learning styles.
Metric: Develop one additional flexible learning space each year as long as a 60% utilization rate is maintained.
Timeline: Measure progress annually.
- Make available learning support services (library, technology, tutoring,) in places where students congregate and in surroundings that encourage their use.
Metric: Establish one additional location per year in which the library, technology, and tutorial support services are co-located.
Timeline: Measure progress annually.
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Establish a highly responsive and consistent advising system for Purdue Calumet students.
Metric: Standardized job descriptions for professional advisors
Advisor orientation and training program
Annual goals related to student success such as fall-to-fall retention rates;
graduation rates and implementation of retention initiatives
Assessment of student satisfaction
Timeline: By 2009
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Continue to improve retention and graduation rates.
Metric: Improve student success by:
Achieving a 70% fall-to-fall retention
Achieving a 90% term-to-term persistence rate
Achieving a 30% six year graduation rate
Achieving a 51% graduation efficiency rate
Timeline: Measure progress annually.
Goal IV: Increase Support for Faculty and Staff Excellence
Purdue University Calumet will provide faculty and staff the resources and opportunities to support a full range of learning experiences for students.
—4.1—
Strengthen professional development, faculty research, and scholarship support structures.
Metric: 100% of untenured faculty will have an assigned tenured faculty mentor.
Timeline: By 2010.
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Recruit and retain excellent faculty and staff with competitive salaries.
Metric: Maintain competitive salaries for all employee groups using established, comparative benchmarks.
Timeline: Measure progress annually.
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Expand support and recognition for faculty and staff.
Metric: Increase by 10% the annual funds available for professional development/training programs, and increase recognition activities by 25%.
Timeline: By 2011.
Goal V: Develop a Vibrant Campus Community
Purdue University Calumet will provide opportunities and resources to attract and retain diverse faculty, staff, and students.
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Develop flexible opportunities for student involvement in campus life.
Metric: Measure the impact of co-curricular activities on specific populations of students at PUC.
Timeline: Assess every two years.
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Identify and adopt best practices in recruiting and retaining diverse student, faculty, and staff.
Metric: Increase the number of new faculty and staff hires to meet targeted Affirmative Action goals.
Timeline: Measure progress annually.
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Construct a quality improvement process built around the Campus Climate survey, the Workplace Satisfaction survey, the Customer Service survey, and the Personnel Evaluation Implementation survey.
Metric: Implement the recommendations of these surveys: Campus Climate Survey, Customer Service Survey, Personnel Evaluation Survey, Faculty and Staff Satisfaction Survey, as appropriate.
Timeline: By 2013 and biannually thereafter.
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Expand and improve facilities to meet the needs of faculty, staff and students.
Metric: Conduct the preliminary planning activity for each of the “first steps” projects in each Campus Master Plan and develop funding scenarios.
Timeline: By 2010.
