Goal 6: Creative and Engaged Faculty & Staff
Support and value faculty and staff.
Objective 1: Support and value commitment to teaching, scholarship, and service.
Action Items:
- Provide faculty development focused on engaged and current pedagogy for today’s students.
- Increase support for scholarly and creative activity.
- Expand support of personal and professional development.
- Develop and implement institutional compensation strategy for faculty.
- Investigate the feasibility of promotion procedures for qualifying librarians.
- Commit to performance metrics, accountability, and use of data in the evaluation of faculty.
Objective 2: Support and value commitment to high-quality student service.
Action Items:
- Provide staff development focused on student-centered customer service.
- Adjust departmental practices to improve student-friendly service.
- Expand support of personal and professional development.
- Develop and implement institutional compensation strategy for staff.
- Investigate the feasibility of a merit-based promotion system for professional staff.
- Commit to performance metrics, accountability, and use of data in the evaluation of staff.
Objective 3: Empower faculty and staff to seek and secure external funding.
Action Items:
- Reinstate the Office of Sponsored Programs.
- Implement incentive program for faculty and staff to secure external funding.
- Establish a Minot State Research Center.
Goal Leadership: VP for Academic Affairs and VP for Administration and Finance