2030 Strategic Plan Draft

Goal 1: Providing Leading Edge Academic Programs

Objective 1: Enhance recruitment and admissions of quality students for all CHP programs

Initiatives:

1. Develop new and promote existing partnerships
   1. Explore opportunities with Arkansas HOSA-Future Health Professionals.
      • Encourage student participation at HOSA events that can count for their IPE Student Educator Activity credit.
      • Participate annually at the Arkansas Leadership Conference in Hot Springs (e.g., recruitment booth, serving as judges)
   2. Collaborate with UAMS Academic Pathways and Workforce Partnerships and UAMS Regional Programs.
      • Reinforce our commitment to CHP programs included in the Health Care Opportunity Program grant (HRSA) – DMS, DIET, MLS, OT, PT, PA, RIS, and CRC.
      • Increase participation in UAMS Academic Pathways and other outreach activities.
   3. Continue to establish and promote articulation agreements with two-year and four-year institutions with special interest being placed on University of Arkansas system schools.
2. Develop new recruitment strategies that work best for undergraduate and graduate degree programs.
   1. Develop targeted marketing campaigns that highlight unique features and benefits of CHP programs.
   2. Evaluate program recruitment plans to identify new target markets and initiatives.
3. Reduce barriers to admissions.
   1. Identify flexible admission criteria options for CHP programs (e.g., early decision, rolling admission).
   2. Evaluate impact of holistic admissions processes.

Objective 2: Enhance Teaching Strategies and Engagement

Initiatives:

1. Provide faculty with resources and support to enhance their pedagogical skills in order to maximize student engagement and success.
   1. Conduct a session with program directors and clinical coordinators/directors to discuss strategies to engage and evaluate clinical sites.
   2. Develop a college-wide preceptor training program.
   3. Implement a comprehensive CHP-wide peer evaluation of teaching network with a faculty training program that facilitates structured classroom observations, constructive feedback exchange, and the sharing of best practices among faculty across all disciplines.
   4. Implement developmental action plans for faculty when course evaluations do not meet program/college benchmarks.
   5. Expand new faculty orientation to include additional content on teaching methodology and classroom organization. Include information about interpretation of test item analysis.
2. Engage faculty from all programs in the development, delivery, assessment, and revision of IPE curriculum.
3. Increase faculty certification and participation as facilitators in UAMS Interprofessional Education activities.
4. Increase faculty utilization of resources through the UAMS Educators Academy in the Educational and Student Success Center.
   1. Paricipate in workshops, book discussions, teaching consultations, teaching observation by peers (TOPs), educational Innovation grants, etc.
   2. Request customized workshops, observations, or consultation with faculty members or programs.
5. Develop, implement, and evaluate a new course evaluation for online courses to provide data to enhance the student learning experience.

Objective 3: Improve Student Outcomes and Success

Initiatives:

1. Implement approaches to promote student success
   1. Evaluate current remediation practices among the CHP programs.
   2. Conduct a workshop with program directors on strategies to identify and assist struggling students early and continuously throughout their program. Share outcome of the workshop with faculty.
   3. Incorporate board exam/registry/certification preparation within program curriculum.
   4. Develop a college-wide remediation process evaluation/workshop
2. Utilize outcome measures to evaluate impact of current approaches to promote student success and identify additional needs.
   1. Assess attrition data for past 3 years and identify trends.
   2. Increase student licensure exam first-time pass rates
   3. Increase retention rates / graduation rates
3. Redesign the Allied Health Seminar course to focus on first-generation college students.

Goal 2:  Increase Participation In Scholarship Within The College

Objective 1:  Provide faculty development in scholarship

Initiatives:

1. Conduct a needs assessment
   1. Evaluate chair/program director’s assessment of their faculty’s needs
   2. Appraise faculty member’s self-assessment of their needs
2. Develop a CHP scholarship committee
   1. Develop, implement and evaluate strategies to address items identified in the needs assessment
   2. Create a community of educational scholars where quality teaching and educational research are valued and acknowledged
      • Partner with the UAMS Educational and Student Success Center to provide faculty development in educational research to include, but not limited to:
        • critically applying a stepwise process to identifying promising educational projects.
        • developing effective educational research plans.
        • Identifying avenues by which to disseminate one’s research.
        • Formulating educational grant proposals.

Objective 2:  Promote scholarship in CHP programs

Initiatives:

1. Promote participation in scholarship
   1. Students in CHP graduate programs will present research projects at local, state, regional, and/or national meetings, conferences, workshops, etc.
      • Beginning in AY26, increase by 5% annually from AY24 baseline.
   2. Continue support faculty scholarship projects that result in presentations at state, regional, and national conferences.
      • Beginning in AY26, increase the number of faculty presenting at national conferences who had never previously presented scholarship over the previous year.
2. Increase college participation at UAMS Student Research Day
   1. Increase student participation through presentation and attendance
      • X% of graduate students will present posters
      • X% of all CHP students will attend
   2. Provide one faculty judge for every two CHP student posters presented
3. Provide two annual scholarship development seminars
   1. Further the sharing of faculty accomplishments in scholarship.
   2. Promote ideas for collaborative scholarship among CHP faculty.

Objective 3:  Increase number of grant proposals submitted with CHP faculty as PI or Co-PI

Initiatives:

1. Provide a seminar on the variety of grant and other funding opportunities available.
2. Increase the number of intramural grant proposal submissions.
3. Increase the number of extramural grant proposal submissions.

Goal 3:  Expand Alumni Engagement, Community Partnerships, And Philanthropic Relationships

Objective 1: Increase alumni engagement with their program and the college

Initiatives:

1. Recognize alumni accomplishments through an annual distinguished alumni award.
   1. Highlight alumni on CHP webpage, college newsletter and other communications
2. Increase alumni involvement with their programs and the college
   1. Create and encourage service opportunities
      • Preceptors, program advisory committees, admissions committees, etc.
   2. Highlight involvement through social media
      • Acknowledge contributions, welcome others to join, etc.
      • Establish program Instagram pages, as requested
3. Expand communications with alumni
   1. Send program update newsletters
   2. Share community service activities and program service opportunities

Objective 2:  Grow partnerships with the community

Initiatives:

1. Further strengthen program advisory committees
   1. Develop best practices for use
2. Promote service activities that connect programs with the community
   1. Participate at 12^th Street Health and Wellness Center and North Street Clinic
   2. Sponsor/support projects and activities that support the community
   3. Encourage student involvement through organizations, service-learning projects, etc.
3. Highlight faculty and staff service on community committees and boards
4. Increase the number of affiliation agreements, 2 + 2 agreements, etc.

Objective 3:  Encourage faculty participation in national professional organizations

Initiatives:

1. Increase number of faculty in service positions with national professional organizations
2. Support faculty service on accreditation site visit teams, boards of directors, certification or board exam test writing committees, and other forms of professional activity
3. Highlight faculty involvement in professional organization through social media, website, e-newsletters, etc.

Objective 4:  Together with UAMS Institutional Advancement, increase community support for the college through fundraising

Initiatives:

1. Cultivate potential donors and solicit individual and corporate support through collaboration between programs, the college, and institutional advancement.
2. Increase the number and amount of college scholarships available
3. Increase the number of project proposal submitted for funding
4. Increase participation in the CHP Dean’s Society to support scholarships and faculty scholarship projects
5. Promote UAMS Day of Giving, UAMS Alumni Association activities, etc.

Goal 4:  Foster an environment that promotes our core values: Integrity, Respect, Diversity and Health equity, Teamwork, Creativity, Excellence, and Safety.

Objective 1:  Recognize and celebrate employee behaviors that align with CHP core values.

Initiatives:

1. Create visual reminders in CHP spaces of the core values as a representation of what we stand for.
2. Include core values and highlight examples of employees or students exemplifying the core values in First Thursday and other CHP communications.
3. Develop an annual event (or incorporate into an existing event) that celebrates and reinforces CHP’s core values.
4. Recognize and celebrate employees who demonstrate the CHP core values throughout the year.

Objective 2:  Support CHP faculty and staff in career growth and professional development.

Initiatives:

1. Evaluate the effectiveness of the addition of long-term career goals to the annual faculty review process.
   • Assess the degree to which goals have been implemented and level of impact.
   • Determine if additional initiatives are needed based on findings.
2. Include professional goals in annual evaluation process for administrative staff.
3. Promote resources for faculty development provided by UAMS and external providers (e.g. Center for Faculty Excellence, Educational and Student Success Center, Association of Schools Advancing Health Professions and other professional associations, etc.).

Objective 3:  Promote teamwork and creativity among CHP faculty and staff.

Initiatives:

1. Provide a networking opportunity in which program’s showcase their contributions to the College’s mission of teaching, scholarship and service.
2. Promote collaboration among faculty to generate ideas for new or on-going projects.

Our Core Values

Integrity: We foster, encourage and expect honesty, accountability and transparency in pursuit of the highest ethical and professional standards in all that we do. We take responsibility for our performance, and will communicate our critical decisions to our employees, patients, students and stakeholders.

Respect:  We embrace a culture of professionalism with respect for the dignity of all persons, honoring the unique contributions provided by a diversity of perspectives and cultures.

Diversity and Health Equity:  We are committed to the importance of the diversity of UAMS leadership, faculty, staff and students in order to enhance the education of our students, reduce racial and ethnic health disparities in our state, and provide an environment in which all employees and views are welcomed.

Teamwork:  We seek to create interdisciplinary, synergistic and collegial relationships characterized by honesty, collaboration, inclusiveness and flexibility.

Creativity:  We encourage and support innovation, imagination, ingenuity, resourcefulness and vision.

Excellence: We strive to achieve, through continuous improvement and adherence to institutional policies and best practices, the highest quality and standards in all our endeavors

Safety: We commit to protect the health and safety of all who we serve through our mission: our patients, our learners, our colleagues and our neighbors in the community, state, nation and in the world. By sustaining a culture of safety, our daily work and our strategic planning promote better health care outcomes, the creation of health equity for all and a sense of joy in our work.

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