Divisional Priorities AY 2018-19
The Division of Academic Affairs will continue to focus on and advance the university’s three main initiatives this academic year. Priority areas include: (1) the Graduation Initiative 2025, (2) the Quarter-to-Semester conversion and (3) CSUSB’s Strategic Plan 2015-2020. Specific areas of focus related to the Strategic Plan as well as other priorities are noted below.
Strategic Plan
The division’s deans and unit leaders met to evaluate progress on CSUSB’s Strategic Plan and to determine focal points for next academic year. In addition to individual college and unit priorities that were established, leadership will collectively focus on the following core areas of the strategic plan.
Goal 1 – Student Success
- Increase student success by maintaining high academic standards while reducing the overall DWFI rate (objective 4).
- Stay on track to meet or exceed the CSU’s Graduation Initiative 2025 targets (objective 5).
Goal 2 – Faculty and Staff Success
- Increase funding, incentives, reassigned time and recognition for research, creative activities and scholarship to enhance the university’s reputation as a center of scholarship (objective 3).
- Increase training opportunities for staff (objective 5).
- Increase the diversity of faculty and staff as well as improve the climate of inclusion and support (objective 6).
- Increase tenure track density based on projected student demand and FTES growth, and decrease student to faculty ratio (objective 7).
Goal 3 – Resource Sustainability and Expansion
- Plan and implement a process by which existing resources (space, budget, staffing) are re-allocated efficiently (objective 4).
Goal 4 – Community Engagement and Partnerships
- Serve and engage communities to enhance social, economic and cultural well-being (Objectives 1-4).
Goal 5 – Identity
- Increase positive perceptions of CSUS (objective 4).
Additional Priorities
College and unit leadership will also support efforts to advance the following determined divisional priorities.
- Collegiality: The provost, senate chair, ASI president and Staff Council chair will continue efforts to unite our common purpose of student success and respect each others’ abilities to work towards that purpose.
- WASC: The deputy provost will lead efforts, including alignment and assessment, to meet university goals and prepare for CSUSB’s mid-cycle review in spring 2019.
- Q2S: Efforts surrounding the quarter-to-semester conversion will be led by the dean of Undergraduate Studies. Emphasis will center on students who will be graduating under the quarter academic calendar.
- Palm Desert Campus: A newly formed task force will lead efforts to advance the academic master plan for CSUSB’s satellite campus.
