The IUPUI campus strategy focuses on three urgent priorities, each of them crucial to the success of our institution, our city, and our state: (1)the success of our students; (2)advances in health and life sciences; and (3)contributions to the well-being of the citizens of Indianapolis, the state of Indiana, and beyond. This strategy builds on our existing sources of strength, honors our prior investments, and reflects widespread stakeholder input into the planning process. Within the three priorities, ten strategic goals have been identified to support implementation of the campus strategy; these goals are aligned with, derived from, and organized around elements of the IUPUI Vision Statement:
PRIORITY 1: The Success of our Students
Create more effective environments, practices, and support systems for student learning, success, and degree attainment.
Objectives:
Develop and expand initiatives that enhance student success, especially student retention and graduation.
Create and implement guided learning pathways that take students from their first year on campus through their capstone experiences.
Enhance students’ sense of belonging to one or more campus communities.
Assess and document student learning and development.
Develop faculty and staff to support student learning and success.
Provide support and resources that reduce educational inequities in all facets of students’ learning experiences at IUPUI.
Administrative Champion(s):
Kristy Sheeler, Interim Associate Vice Chancellor for Undergraduate Education and Dean, University College
Eric Weldy, Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
Develop tomorrow’s intellectual leaders and scholars through enhanced opportunities in graduate education, especially Ph.D. and interprofessional programs.
Objectives:
Expand the number and capacity of graduate degree programs.
Increase the autonomy of Ph.D. programs.
Create unique accelerated, interdisciplinary, and inter-professional graduate programs, particularly in the humanities and social sciences.
Strengthen graduate student recruitment, retention, and degree achievement.
Administrative Champion(s):
Janice Blum, Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education
Increase our efforts to improve access and opportunities for learners through technology-enhanced tools, platforms, and practices.
Objectives:
Develop online programs that build on the unique features of an IUPUI education and reflect the teaching and learning mission of Indiana University.
Collaborate with and support all IUPUI faculty in creating online courses and programs through a multi-faceted approach to professional development.
Implement next-generation digital learning environments to support seamless delivery of face-to-face, hybrid, and online courses and programs through expanded use of adaptive learning technologies and digital courseware.
Engage students in shaping effective online courses and programs by inviting their ideas and ensuring their awareness and access to services that support online student success.
Administrative Champion(s):
Margie Ferguson, Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Jay Gladden, Associate Vice President for Learning Technologies in the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology at IU and Dean of IT at IUPUI
Develop continued strategic enrollment management expertise that expands our reach, builds enrollments, retains students, and increases degree attainment.
Objectives:
Develop continued expertise in strategic enrollment management.
Provide excellent service and consultation to division stakeholders and academic schools.
Foster a culture of data-informed decision-making concerning division actions.
Support initiatives that contribute to promoting retention and student success.
Value and embrace innovation, change, and entrepreneurial mindsets and approaches.
Integrate diversity and inclusivity principles into all aspects of the division’s culture and practices.
Administrative Champion(s):
Stephen Hundley, Interim Chief Enrollment Officer
PRIORITY 2: Advances in Health and Life Sciences
Advance our capabilities and contributions through interdisciplinary efforts— often referred to as interprofessional education and collaborative practice—to improve the well being of communities and tackle important public health challenges.
Objectives:
Build on our research strengths across disciplines to tackle the opioid epidemic.
Build academic practice partnerships that demonstrate the impact of interprofessional practice and education on statewide priorities.
Develop a wellness infrastructure that enhances the campus culture of health, including mental health, increased physical activity, and improved well-being among faculty, staff, and students.
Improve the availability of healthy food choices on campus.
Decrease the incidence and prevalence of tobacco use by faculty, staff and students.
Administrative Champion(s):
Robin Newhouse, Dean, School of Nursing
Paul Halverson, Founding Dean, Fairbanks School of Public Health
PRIORITY 3: Contributions to the Well-being of the Citizens of Indianapolis, the State of Indiana, and Beyond
Enhance our capacity and support for research, scholarship, and creative activity to improve the quality of life, generate new knowledge, and fuel economic development.
Objectives:
Develop Quality of Life research initiatives to benefit our community in collaboration with the Office of Community Engagement.
Develop an IUPUI Experts Database to facilitate collaboration and serve as a resource for external partners.
Develop a clearinghouse to allow rapid response to research requests from external stakeholders.
Collaborate with community partners in Indianapolis to develop research projects, like those envisioned in the Smart Cities Initiative, that seek solutions to key urban challenges.
Establish IUPUI as a leader in qualitative and mixed-methods research.
Develop digital networking and link existing databases to improve interconnectivity and search capacity for researchers.
Administrative Champion(s):
Janice Blum, Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education
Increase service and experiential learning opportunities, stimulate economic development, and use outreach and engagement to address urban community needs.
Objectives:
Develop a comprehensive anchor institution strategy that applies the campus’s place-based economic power and human capital in partnership with the community to benefit the long-term well-being of both.
Through the Office of Community Engagement, lead campus engagement initiatives to further involve students, faculty, and staff in the community.
Advance the campus reputation for engagement locally, nationally, and internationally.
Administrative Champion(s):
Amy Warner, Vice Chancellor for Community Engagement
Forge and expand effective international partnerships and prepare our students to be global citizens.
Objectives:
Building on school vision statements for internationalization, update school-level international strategic plans annually so that each school’s global priorities and activities advance IUPUI’s transformation into a global campus.
Develop curricular and co-curricular activities that enable all IUPUI undergraduate and graduate students to have at least one substantive global learning experience during their IUPUI careers, either internationally or locally.
Increase the recruitment and success of international undergraduate and graduate students and international scholars by ensuring that facilities, support services, and strategic collaborations continually improve their experiences and integration into the campus and community.
Enhance professional development and international opportunities for faculty and staff through growth of IUPUI as an intercultural hub in partnership with the IU Gateways and other strategic partners.
Strengthen existing strategic international partnerships in China and Kenya and develop one or more new ones by 2020, while continuing to prioritize opportunities in countries of strategic interest for Indianapolis and Central Indiana.
Make endowment of IUPUI’s international activities, particularly those that directly benefit students, a goal of the IU Bicentennial Campaign.
Administrative Champion(s):
Hilary Kahn, Associate Vice Chancellor for International Affairs
Seek, value, and cultivate diversity in all of its forms and create an environment where all campus community members feel welcomed, supported, included, and valued.
Objectives:
Develop and maintain an unapologetically equitable and inclusive campus culture that ensures the academic and professional success of historically minoritized and marginalized students, staff, and faculty, and actively promote the benefits of such a culture to the entire campus.
With campus administration leading by example, provide multiple and varied learning opportunities to the IUPUI community to improve awareness and understanding of and between diverse populations, and to ensure campus accountability to the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Develop and implement meaningful and dynamic diversity plans that are unique to each unit, and assess progress annually.
Employ proven strategies to diversify campus administration, faculty, staff and students.
Administrative Champion(s):
Karen Dace, Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Gina Gibau, Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Diversity and Inclusion
Invest in and develop faculty and staff so that individuals realize their fullest potential to contribute to IUPUI’s excellence and success.
Objectives:
Create a welcoming and inclusive workplace for faculty and staff by developing a sustained environment of mentoring and professional development.
Assure high-quality processes for performance management and promotion and tenure.
Offer meaningful opportunities for advancement.
Administrative Champion(s):
Margie Ferguson, Senior Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Gina Gibau, Associate Vice Chancellor for Faculty Diversity and Inclusion
Camy Broeker, Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration
Stephen Hundley, Senior Advisor to the Chancellor for Planning and Institutional Improvement (PAII)