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Reports and Updates

As the strategic planning process moves forward, the Strategic Planning Committee will provide updates, insight, and inspiration both here and through other channels. Visit this page regularly to follow the progress of the implementation phase of our strategic planning.

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Reports

In December 2019, an action planning team of faculty, staff, and administrators made a series of recommendations on how to implement Embrace Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion strategic activity 1.2:

Create a support structure, including a leadership position, support staff, and requisite funding, to promote and advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives across campus and in each unit.

In January 2020, we collected feedback on the recommendations at a campus open forum and through meetings with the faculty Senate, Student Government Association, Administrative and Professional Staff Advisory Council, Campus Support Staff Advisory Committee, and two community focus groups.

Download the Action Team's Recommendations

Download the Feedback Report

Messages

SharePoint Site Launched with Strategic Planning Updates

April 20, 2020

Dear University Community,

A new SharePoint site to provide updates on our strategic planning and implementation efforts to our university community has been launched. On the site you will find the following:

  • A detailed report on the results of our fall 2019 campus climate survey
  • The Strategic Planning and Implementation annual report, which contains information on all 2019–20 activities, including a report on strategic plan metrics and action planning efforts
  • A version of our strategic plan with links to relevant activities, updates, and reports embedded directly in the plan

Go to ind657.sharepoint.com/sites/StrategicPlan to access the site.

In the future, you will find additional updates on our implementation progress and more information about university-wide strategic planning efforts.

I wish you the best of luck in the final weeks of the semester.

Jeff Malanson
Director of Strategic Planning and Implementation

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Implementing Our Strategic Plan

February 13, 2020

In early October, we announced the formation of six action planning teams to develop recommendations on how to implement our priority strategic activities. After four months of significant and important effort, the teams delivered their final recommendations to the Leadership Team at the end of January. Download an overview of the teams’ recommendations.

It is now time to act on these recommendations and begin implementing our strategic plan. University leadership is already taking steps to put three action plans into motion and will move forward with the other three this fall.

Download the Action Plans Overview

Open Forum on Campus Climate Survey Results and DEI Leadership Position

January 15, 2020

Dear Campus Community:

Welcome back! I hope that you had a restful winter break and that your spring semester is off to a great start.

I want to invite you to attend our next strategic planning open forum on Wednesday, January 22, at noon in the Science Building, Room 168. At this open forum we will share and discuss two items:

  • The results of the Campus Climate Survey that we administered last semester
  • The recommendations that were developed by our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion action planning team for establishing a chief diversity officer leadership position for the university.

It is our intention to record the open forum, and we will post the recording on the strategic planning website after the forum.

If you have any questions, please let me know. I hope to see you at the forum.

Jeff Malanson
Director of Strategic Planning and Implementation

Update on Strategic Plan Refinement Process

November 4, 2019

Dear Campus Community:

We held eight focus groups throughout October that were attended by 52 staff and faculty. Through their input, as well as the early efforts of our action planning teams, we have refined, clarified, and strengthened our strategic plan. You can view the updated version of the plan here.

We are holding three open forums to talk about the refined strategic plan, the final approval process, the development of plan metrics, and updates on action planning. The forums will be on:

  • Wednesday, November 6, 3 p.m., Liberal Arts Building, Room 159
  • Monday, November 11, 9 a.m., Kettler Hall, Room 146
  • Thursday, November 14, noon, Science Building, Room 168

The Faculty Senate will also be considering the strategic plan on Monday, November 11, at noon, in Kettler Hall, Room G46.

We hope to see you at an open forum. If you have questions or comments and cannot attend a forum, please Share Your Voice.

Thank you,

Jeff Malanson
Director of Strategic Planning and Implementation

Priority Strategic Activities and Formation of Action Planning Teams

October 2, 2019

Dear Campus Community:

The Leadership Team met last week to determine the priority strategic activities that we will begin to plan and implement this year and to identify potential members for our action planning teams.

Across more than three hours of discussion focused on the highest priorities for implementing our strategy [PDF] and the specific activities that will most immediately enable us to positively impact those priorities, the Leadership Team selected six strategic activities to move forward this year. In selecting these six activities, the Leadership Team carefully considered the recommendations generated at our September 13 Prioritization Event [PDF], other input we have received throughout our strategic planning process, and the expertise of the team’s members.

The Leadership Team believes that it is critically important to provide clear direction to the action planning teams on the work they are to undertake, and has amended the text of several of the strategic activities. These activities will remain open for discussion and evaluation throughout our Strategic Plan Refinement Process.

Priority Strategic Activities

  • Student Success 1.1. Increase the use of active learning strategies and high-impact practices in high-enrolling and gateway courses and in online and hybrid courses.
  • Student Success 2.2. Develop financial aid and assistance programs that make attending full-time a financially viable option, emphasize need, and support students at all stages of their academic careers.
  • Student Success 3.1. Develop a university advising model informed by the assessment of current advising practices, benchmarking of successful institutions, and advising best practices.
  • Quality of Place 3.1. Enhance the promotion of Purdue University Fort Wayne’s arts, athletics, intellectual, cultural, and educational programming to attract diverse audiences and increase participation by students, staff, faculty, alumni, and the community.
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion 1.2. Create a support structure, including a leadership position, support staff, and requisite funding, to promote and advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives across campus and in each unit. This team will focus on the process of establishing and hiring the leadership position; the rest of the strategic activity will be action planned and implemented after the leader is in place.
  • Community Engagement 2.1. Establish new community partnerships at each level of engagement: presence, connections, activity/project/event, relationship.

We are excited to get to work moving these activities forward and are confident that these are the right first steps to take in implementing our strategy.

Action Planning Teams

We have started contacting potential action planning team members and will post complete rosters on the strategic planning website once they are finalized. We will formally launch the teams on Friday, October 11.

Refinement Process

Please remember to RSVP to participate in a focus group on the current draft strategic plan or complete an online feedback form.

If you have any questions about our priority strategic activities or the action planning teams, please Share Your Voice.

Thank you for your time and effort,

Jeff Malanson
Director of Strategic Planning and Implementation

Refining Our Strategic Plan

September 25, 2019

Dear Campus Community:

On behalf of the University Leadership Team, I am pleased to share with you our consolidated and prioritized strategic plan [PDF]. The plan consists of 21 high-impact strategic activities in support of our aspirations to Champion Student Success; Enhance Quality of Place; Embrace Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; and Promote Community Engagement. Consistent with our priority-setting activities during the past few weeks, the plan prioritizes two significant areas of opportunity and focus: student success and experience and community engagement.

The recommendations made by the 215 students, staff, and faculty at our recent prioritization event—to say nothing of the hundreds of additional points of feedback we have received throughout our strategic planning process—directly shaped and informed this document.

Refinement Process

We would like to engage and rally our campus community in our ongoing efforts to collect feedback on the strategic plan. Our goal with the refinement process is to carefully review and refine the language of our objectives and strategic activities to ensure clarity of intention and maximum positive impact as we finalize the plan. We also want to be sure that each member of our campus community—each of you—can see yourself and the direct ways that you will be able to help advance and achieve our collective strategy in the plan.

We will be holding a series of focus groups to collect your feedback on the university’s objectives and strategic activities. Whether you have specific ideas for improving our plan or just want to hear what others have to say, please sign up for a focus group here.

If you have feedback, but would prefer not to attend a focus group, you may also provide input online.

Learn more about the refinement process.

Action Planning Teams

It was originally our intention to also use this message to announce the formation of Action Planning Teams. The Leadership Team (Chancellor, Vice Chancellors, Deans, Faculty Senate Leaders) wants to take a bit more time to make the critically important decisions as to which strategic activities we will move forward with first. We want to ensure that the activities we begin planning and implementing this year reflect our highest priorities and that the Action Planning Teams we form are put in the best position possible to be successful in their work. We will have more information in the coming weeks.

If you have any questions about the strategic plan or the refinement process, please Share Your Voice.

As always, thank you for your time and attention on this important planning process.

Sincerely,

Jeff Malanson
Director of Strategic Planning and Implementation

Campus Message on Strategic Plan Prioritization Event Summary Report

September 16, 2019

Dear Campus Community:

Thank you to everyone who participated in last Friday’s Strategic Plan Prioritization Event! More than 280 students, staff, and faculty registered to attend and 215 ultimately took part in the event. Together we engaged in critically important discussions and activities to help consolidate and prioritize our strategic plan. A report summarizing the event [PDF] and documenting the input and recommendations of the participants can be found here.

The University Leadership Team will meet this Wednesday (September 18) to act on these recommendations. Our goal is to release a draft of the consolidated and prioritized strategic plan by next Wednesday (September 25).

If you have any questions about the Summary Report, please do not hesitate to Share Your Voice.

Take care,
Jeff Malanson
Director of Strategic Planning and Implementation