Strategies and action items
Develop and foster college faculty and staff.
- Promote, encourage and support staff to seek career development opportunities.
- Recognize service internally and externally.
- Increase the number of global leaders in engineering.
- Continue Dean’s leadership program.
- Nominate and support attendance of department chairs and associate department chairs in leadership programs (Big 10+ academic leaders’ program).
- Nominate and support attendance in women faculty leadership program (e.g., Big 10+ program, ELATES program, internal leadership program for women faculty).
- Create the Dean’s Fellow program.
- Promote faculty external recognition award opportunities and election to leadership roles of editorial boards and professional societies.
Improve and optimize Infrastructure (spaces, personnel, capabilities).
- Renovate, modernize, and reallocate to make spaces more inclusive and accessible where practical.
- Increase efficiency of space usage by adopting best practices and policies in facility management and scheduling.
- Make the engineering replacement building a reality.
Leverage best practices in recruiting and retaining faculty, staff and students
- Grow the number of faculty candidates
- Improve the graduate student experience for all students
- Expand outreach programs to high school students
Strengthen financial profile to enable the college to support its people and mission.
- Secure an increase in engineering differential tuition.
- Continue to grow philanthropic activities.
- Develop and implement a culture of giving amongst young alumni.
- Increase program offerings to meet student demand.
- Develop and implement a budget model that incentivizes innovation and growth in the College of Engineering.
- Increase corporate philanthropic support.