Primary Objectives

2. Maintain active participation in university recruitment efforts.

3. Increase women and minority graduate ratios to reach regional averages.

4. Increase the quality of incoming undergraduate students as measured by the ACT5. Increase the quality of incoming graduate students.

2. Provide assistantships for all high quality Ph.D and Masters students.

2.a. Develop a variety of programs for presentations to the various potential student audiences.

2.b. Support faculty visitations to regional community colleges and universities.

3. Publicize the graduation rates of women and minorities.

4.a. Conduct focus groups of high quality undergraduate students to identify recruiting opportunities.

4.b. Target recruiting activities to high performance students.

5.a. Conduct focus groups of high quality graduate students to identify recruiting opportunities.

5.b. Identify stable funding sources for graduate student support.

1.b. Develop support systems for student organizations and activities that foster esprit de corps.

1.b. Monitor number of scholarships and amount of total funding.

2.a. Identify internal funds for PhD student support.

2.b. Secure additional laboratory and office space.

2. Dean's office should make at least 10 presentations per AY to junior high, high school, and community college students.

3. Monitor graduation rates of women (at least 20%) and minorities (at least 15%).

4. Increase incoming mean ACT scores of incoming freshman (to at least 23).

5. Monitor the long-term funds available for recruiting quality graduate students.

1.b. Survey student perception of the support provided by their advisors, Departments, and the College.

2.a. Monitor the number of funded graduate students and the total amount of funds available.

2.b. Monitor the level of long-term support of PhD students.

2.c. Monitor the availability of laboratory and office space for support of research assistants.

Decisions

2. The College will decide on reasonable objectives for recruiting women and minorities.

3. The College will decide on targets for high performance students

4.The College will decide on allocation of funds for recruiting graduate students.

2. The College and faculty will decide on allocation of research funding for student support.

3.The College will decide on allocation of resources to support of PhD program.

Primary Objectives

2. Continuously improve the effectiveness of the student learning experience.

2. Increase the visibility of student intellectual accomplishments.

3. Increase proportion of MS students taking a thesis option.

2. Have regional and national employers target recruiting activities to program graduates.

2.a. Monitor student perception of educational experience.

2.b. Utilize new technology in classroom including distance education.

1.b. Provide office space, laboratory space, and travel funds for undergraduate and graduate involvement in research.

2.a. Establish a forum for recognition of student intellectual activity.

2.b. Encourage thesis/ dissertation students to give research seminars.

3. Modify MS degree requirements to encourage thesis option.

1.b. Recognize and reward faculty directing the presentation and publication of student work.

1.c. Provide departmental support for undergraduate and graduate student travel to attend technical and professional societies.

2. Establish relationships with alumni to foster active recruiting of program graduates.

3. Encourage industrial experiences through coop and senior projects.

2.a. Compare teaching load reports, SPTE results, senior exit surveys, and alumni surveys with previous years' results.

2.b. Compare the proportion of sections taught that use new technology to previous years.

2.a. Monitor the number of publication and presentations of student intellectual activities.

2.b. Monitor the number of regional and national recognitions of student intellectual activities.

3. Monitor the proportion of MS students graduating with thesis option.

1.b. Monitor the number of presentations and publications of student work.

2. Monitor placement of program graduates.

Decisions

2.a. The College will decide teaching loads.

2.b. The College will decide on resources to allocate to learning enhancement including new technology.

1.b. The faculty will decide on allocation of funded research to student support.

2. The College will decide means for recognizing student activity

3. Departments will decide on MS degree requirements.

2. The College will decide on resources to allocate to develop and monitor placements.