Strategic plan
Where Education Leads to Discovery
The CSH Strategic plan is aligned with four pillars of the UWL plan focusing on students, community and employees. Learn more about our latest activities in each of the four pillars.
Increasing community engagement
CSH will promote the mission of the college through the cultivation of internal and external partners which include the other colleges in UWL, regional businesses and health organizations, community leaders, local and state legislators, and alumni.
Goals
- Improve messaging of the college’s strengths and accomplishments, internally and externally, through on-campus displays, email announcements, press releases, and other means.
- Guide and facilitate on-campus community experiences including guest speakers, student organizations, and events in line with CSH core values.
- Foster interprofessional experiences to strengthen community-based healthcare partnerships while promoting professional development for students.
- Define and support a Community Outreach Liaison within each CSH department to enhance messaging and visibility efforts.
- Build intentional relationships with UWL alumni to highlight and nurture community collaborations and connectivity.
Achieving Excellence Through Equity & Diversity
CSH is dedicated to nurturing an atmosphere that values diversity and fosters inclusion and equity; enhancing the representation of a diverse faculty, staff, and student body in the college.
Goals
- Expand efforts to achieve demographic equity to access and retention for faculty, staff, and students.
- Increase and maintain representation of faculty and staff from historically underrepresented populations in college and university administration.
- Identify and allocate resources for need-based small grants for students to support successful application and entry into careers, professional programs, or graduate programs by providing funding for application fees, travel to interviews, etc.
- Identify and allocate resources -- financial, information, guidance, best practices, access to outside experts, etc. -- for Inclusive Excellence (IE) efforts, including:
- Training and professional development opportunities for faculty and staff
- IE research (e.g., student stipends, grants, support for faculty-staff collaborations, etc.).
- Support for department-led IE efforts (adding statements to bylaws, recognizing IE in promotion and tenure decisions, promoting IE efforts in instruction, etc.).
Investing in Our People
CSH will provide support to faculty and staff throughout their academic careers such that they may develop and maintain innovative curricula, productive scholarship programs, and meaningful service.
Goals
- Recruit and retain a diverse and highly talented faculty with quality academic credentials, dedication to the support and cultivation of student learning, and a strong commitment to the tenets of the Wisconsin Idea.
- Develop strategies to address faculty burnout and retention resulting from increasing expectations for research, assessment, advising, and administrative tasks by facilitating creation of faculty workload metrics that recognize and reward contributions in teaching, scholarship, and service.
- Continue to foster the current collaborative and collegial environment within and between many departments including:
- Value internal and external collaborations and work to ensure that such research is valued for promotion and tenure.
- Develop other collaborative and interdisciplinary centers like River Studies, support faculty networking events to develop collaborations between departments across the college and pursue and advertise more opportunities like the freshwater collaborative and the Mayo partnership.
- Identify college specific development opportunities (e.g., symposia, grants, conferences, networking events, etc.), and continue to make available administrative fellowships and assignments for career advancement to interested faculty.
- Improve support for the development and expansion of the health professions programs with emphasis on space needs in the Health Science Center, opportunities for faculty to maintain their clinical expertise, and the unique recruitment needs of these programs.
- Work with departments and collaborative groups within the college to identify opportunities for program growth/improvement/funding and to obtain and maintain state-of-the-art facilities and equipment to be used in research and teaching.
- Continue to pursue internal and external funding to support research, course/program development, and travel for research and conferences, and support faculty pursuit of external funding.
- Identify ways to incentivize innovation in teaching, research, and scholarship to increase faculty morale, including:
- place higher value and emphasis on development and implementation of high impact practices such as:
- allocating resources for laboratory/hands-on training courses (in a way that does not penalize SCH/FTE).
- recognize for promotion and tenure, and seek to compensate, the work done in mentoring undergraduate and graduate research.
- Developing and maintaining undergraduate and graduate research programs.
- Improving teaching and inclusive excellence programs.
- allocate financial support for one-time projects (e.g., conferences, competitions)
- expand support for faculty scholarship (e.g., provide support for faculty research, grant writing)
- continue to recognize the value that tenure-track faculty, active in research, bring to the university and continue to emphasize faculty positions that involve research-scholars in accordance with the Wisconsin Idea.
- place higher value and emphasis on development and implementation of high impact practices such as:
Advancing Transformational Education
CSH is committed to providing high impact practices for students across the entire university, which integrate our exceptional teaching, research, and service efforts.
Goals
- Support departments and faculty in the development of interdisciplinary courses and programs (minors, concentrations, certificates, study abroad programs) through grant opportunities (e.g., CSH-specific curricular redesign grants).
- Support faculty mentoring undergraduate and graduate research projects by providing release time.
- Provide greater access to funded research opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students.
- Promote the college by developing a college-wide research symposium for the fall. This could enhance student recruitment as many student visits occur in the fall.
- Promote recruitment of graduate students at the national level through:
- allocating funding (e.g., research assistantships, teaching assistantships) and awards like the undergraduate Dean’s Distinguished Fellowship.
- marketing efforts and supporting web design/maintenance efforts (e.g., through iComm partnerships, release time, summer stipends for design/maintenance).
- enhanced online/hybrid learning opportunities developed during the pandemic to recruit future traditional and non-traditional students (e.g., working with the Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning (CATL), providing small grants and/or release time).
Committee members
Joshua Hertel, Mathematics & Statistics
Brian Kumm-Schaley, Recreation Management and Therapeutic Recreation
Shauna Salow, Health Professions
Chia-Chen Yu, Exercise and Sport Science
Andrew Ericson, CSH student senator
About
Mission and Vision
The College of Science and Health provides a transformative educational experience that integrates high impact practices and inclusive teaching approaches to educate the next generation of science-literate global citizens.
We believe in the lasting value of liberal arts and science education in the creation of new knowledge, and the promotion of critical inquiry and analytical thinking.
The College is committed to further supporting faculty and staff in developing and maintaining innovative curricula, impactful research and scholarship programs, and meaningful service endeavors, throughout their academic careers.
We are dedicated to nurturing an atmosphere that values diversity and fosters inclusion and equity, enhancing the representation of a diverse faculty, staff, and student body in the college.
We are committed to building intentional and symbiotic relationships and advancing community collaborations.