As part of the exercise, we have to make a "Departmental Strategic Action
Plan", presumably at least some of which is for IT, and some of which is
for Management. Mike has this little table format he wants us to use.
A few examples, adapted from TTU, serve to illustrate the format.
| Strategic Objective | Departmental Action | Measurable Outcome
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| Build research programs that enhance the academic reputation of the Department
| - Hold research days within the department.
- Hold research workshops with other departments.
- Strengthen ties with local, state, and federal agencies
- Increase number of research faculty
| - Increase funding per research faculty by 10%
- Increase (#,amount) of grant submissions by 10%
- Increase # of publications/citations by 10%
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| Modernize and enhance undergraduate and graduate programs
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- Update the undergrad and grad curricula
- Increase the size of the graduate program
- Add HPC, sysadmin training; what else?
- Improve student success, how about bottom-up encouragement
- Add a 200-level course in between 122 and 344. 233?
- Add a x00-level course related to 241. 242?
| - Show delta in 213, 233 capacity and utilization
- Adopt NM common courses, revise grad core
- Achieve PhD enrollment of 15-25 students
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| Improve retention and graduation rates
| - Develop more undergraduate research sponsorship
- Strengthen prerequisite courses of high DFW courses
- Rotate senior faculty teaching of prerequisite courses
| - Retain 10% more freshmen-sophomore, sophomore-junior
- Graduate 10% more CS, IT, BTM majors per year
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| Increase number of working partnerships with units on campus
| - Contribute or create interdisciplinary organizations in
(AI/ML, ...)
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| Forge new and strengthen existing off-campus collaborations
| - Sandia, LANL
- identify new regional partners to target
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| Improve and Modernize Facilities
| - Improve instructional labs
- Improve research facilities
| - Lab Machines >= 10% faster, 10% more seats
- Server Machines >= 10% bigger, 10% faster
- New research capability X, Y, Z
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| Increase the amount of unrestricted funds for the department
| - Identify endowments for scholarships and chairs
- Build relationships with alumni, alumni services
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| - New brochures
- Updated website
- Increase CSE Funding to $kK/year
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| Management Objective#1
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| add more as-needed...
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| IT Strategic Objective: grow
| - increase enrollment
- study retention and graduation rates of IT program
- improve retention and gr
- recruiting and updated brochures
- talk to IT graduates, make a set of recommendations
- increase number of faculty
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| IT Objective #2: establish IT research lab(s)
| - identify one or more future/growth specializations in IT to target
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| IT Objective #3: customize more IT curricula
| - more applied versions of CS classes
- more hot areas of IT not covered in current curriculum
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| IT Objective #4: market IT, branded with a unique focus
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| add more as-needed...
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