Each year, the Chancellor and Chancellor's Cabinet determine specific priorities to guide annual planning, decision-making, and implementation of specific actions to be undertaken during the academic year.  These yearly priorities are aligned with and derived from the broader strategic plan goals and objectives.

Summary of Priorities for AY 2022-23

Andrew R. Klein
Interim Executive Vice President, Indiana University, and Interim Chancellor, IUPUI

Institutional Changes and Realignments
Develop a new strategic plan for the Indianapolis campus derived from and aligned with the broader IU strategic plan.  Support realignments of select shared services at the university and campus levels.  Manage leadership transitions, engage in strategic initiatives, and prepare for restructuring taking place at IUPUI.

Enrollment Management and Student Success
Refresh the campus Strategic Enrollment Management Plan.  Stabilize and prepare to strategically expand enrollments of both beginner and transfer students through more coordinated yield efforts, improved retention, and outreach to prospective students.  Identify and remedy institutional barriers/bottlenecks inhibiting students’ academic achievement, mental health and wellbeing, sense of belonging, and timely persistence to degree completion. Develop more micro/stackable credentials aligned to economic/workforce development needs.  Enhance internationalization through curricular/co-curricular interventions and international partnerships.

Research and Creative Activities
Strengthen the campus research profile by leveraging sources of strength and focusing on key metrics. specifically external grants, faculty awards, and Ph.D. conferrals.  Pursue external funding opportunities from federal agencies.  Communicate faculty and student research outcomes/success.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Leverage the Presidential Diversity Hiring Initiative to attract historically underserved and underrepresented faculty talent at IUPUI.  Launch the Latina/o Hiring Initiative to recruit and retain Latina/o staff and faculty to IUPUI.  Continue the Black Women’s Task Force to improve the climate for Black women at IUPUI.  Implement the 2022 Climate Survey at IUPUI, its third periodic administration.

Community, Workforce, and Economic Engagement
Strengthen IUPUI’s position as an anchor institution by supporting our region’s major economic clusters in Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Logistics, Information Technology, and Sports through better alignment and coordination of our academic and research activities to meet external needs.  Embrace opportunities to partner with 16 Tech, Local Initiative Support Corporation, Develop Indy, Downtown Indy, Business Equity Initiative, and Indianapolis African American Quality of Life Plan in Marion County.  Continue to address the unique community/workforce/economic engagement needs of Fort Wayne and Columbus.  Acknowledge burnout and disengagement of faculty and staff and endeavor to improve morale through programming, campus communications, and connections to resources.

Resource Development and Management
Develop campus-wide fundraising priorities focusing on student success, faculty support, research, staff development, and athletics.  Launch the Bridge to the Future internal cross-campus grant program using philanthropic support to support student success, enhance diversity and internationalization initiatives, and build capacity for faculty and staff success.  Support faculty growth and professional development through the Institute for Engaged Learning and the Forum Council.  Expand Faculty Fellows program to create a stronger pipeline into academic leadership positions.  Continue to implement strategies to support and retain faculty and staff talent.

Reputation and Communication
Update or develop key messages about the campus to various constituencies, including keeping them engaged in and informed about restructuring and strategic planning.  Leverage relationships with internal and external stakeholders to reinforce key messages.  Enhance communication, marketing, and engagement strategies, including capitalizing on and strengthening the rankings of our academic programs and pursuing external forms of recognition for the campus.