Highlights of the 2015-2020 Strategic Plan

Advancing the Academic Mission

Ensure student success

• New Student Orientation

• The First-Year Experience Project

• Priorities Survey for Online Learning

• Student Association

• Mentoring programs

Stabilize and strengthen academic programs

• Recruiting full-time faculty

• Clustering programs

• Office of Faculty Development and Instructional Technology (OFDIT)

Affirm the centrality of academic programs’ faculty and leadership in decision making

• New CUNY SPS Governance Plan

• Town Halls/Deans & Directors meetings

Enriching and Expanding Programs

Establish CUNY SPS as a leader in online teaching

• 10 new online degree programs by 2020

• A Center for Online Teaching and Learning

Explore and pilot innovative learning pathways

• Credit for Prior Learning

• Academic partnerships

Expand technological support

• Creating a video studio

• Growing OFDIT

Increase enrollment in existing programs

• Expanded /targeted marketing

• Academic partnerships

Improve Student Services

• Symplicity CMS platform

• Consultant report on Career Services

Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement

Implement School-wide assessment

• Assessment plans for all programs/units

• Middle States re-accreditation

Implement School-wide budget planning

• Budgets done for each unit

• Budget Committee instituted by governance

Ensure compliance with external mandates

• Hiring the School’s first Diversity Officer

• Forming an Office of Diversity & Compliance

Forging a Distinctive Institutional Identity

Build on the School’s strengths to forge a distinctive institutional identity

• Maximize the school’s leadership role in online education

• Making CUNY SPS returning adult students’ school of choice

• Become an independently registered institution

• Identify how to strengthen the CUNY SPS brand

Take full advantage of the School’s location in NYC

• Addressing city/state needs through PEWL

• Using NYC’s global city status to extend national and international outreach

Foster community and diversity

• Collaboration across programs

• Creating the Committee on Institutional Equity and Diversity

Building Institutional Capacity

Increase funding for the School

• Doubling enrollments from 2015-20

• Pursuing grants, creating a grants office

• Doubling CUNY SPS Foundation funding

• Establish guidelines for institutional growth

Heighten engagement for all stakeholders

• Creating the Student Association

• Establishing an Alumni Engagement Council

• Forming the Community Engagement Committee

• Tapping CUNY SPS Foundation members for projects and presentations