1. UTPA 2012: A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-PAN AMERICAN Approved by President Cárdenas November 21, 2005 Goals reordered January 31, 2006 1  Provide students with a quality educational experience that enables them to complete their educational goals in a timely fashion.  Become an outstanding research institution, emphasizing collaborative partnerships and entrepreneurship.  Enhance UTPA’s engagement with the community to meet challenges and maximize opportunities.  Collaborate with P-12 schools to enlarge the pool of applicants who are personally prepared and academically qualified for higher education.  Infuse Inter-American and global perspectives throughout the University community.  Optimize institutional effectiveness and efficiency consistent with high quality organizational standards. The six UTPA goals addressed by this Outcome Directed Planning map are: UTPA 2012: A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-PAN AMERICAN

2. UTPA 2012: A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-PAN AMERICAN Approved by President Cárdenas November 21, 2005 Goals reordered January 31, 2006 2 GOAL: Provide students with a quality educational experience that enables them to complete their educational goals in a timely fashion. (SLIDE 1) Assure that quality education is provided to students.  Implement continuous adherence to current standards for each course of study.  Develop alternative and authentic assessment models for all courses of study.  Provide robust pedagogy that assures success for a broader spectrum of learners.  Appropriately integrate technology into the teaching and learning process.  Continuously review degree programs to assure that they lead to efficient and effective degree completion for students.  Provide course schedules and offerings to enable students to complete their degrees in a timely manner. Strategies Objectives Expand and deepen student engagement in campus life.  Expand co-curricular opportunities.  Provide services and support for more students to attend co- curricular activities, and attend full-time. Ensure student success in mathematics courses so that students make progress toward completion of degrees.  Develop a model.  Pilot the model in MATH 1300, 1334 and 1340.  Assess effectiveness of interventions compared to control group.  Adjust model based on assessment.  Obtain needed funding for implementation.  Institutionalize the model to impact all students taking these MATH courses and all faculty teaching these courses.  Implement other best practices in the teaching of mathematics to first generation college students. UTPA 2012: A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-PAN AMERICAN

3. UTPA 2012: A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-PAN AMERICAN Approved by President Cárdenas November 21, 2005 Goals reordered January 31, 2006 3 GOAL: Provide students with a quality educational experience that enables them to complete their educational goals in a timely fashion. (SLIDE 2) Provide effective and timely advising to students. Align the expectations of the community about student preparation for professional curricula with UTPA’s student outcomes.  Develop up-to-date tracking of student records to facilitate advising (using Banner).  Promote faculty involvement with students regarding career opportunities in their fields.  Provide students with the tools to develop their educational goals.  Identify community expectations.  Increase cooperative educational opportunities for students. Provide effective and timely financial aid processes for students.  Communicate financial aid information to students in the most complete and timely manner.  Improve critical processes of financial support focusing on student retention. Strategies Objectives UTPA 2012: A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-PAN AMERICAN

4. UTPA 2012: A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-PAN AMERICAN Approved by President Cárdenas November 21, 2005 Goals reordered January 31, 2006 4 Develop a culture that supports and integrates graduate academic programs, the institutional and college research agendas, and external funding opportunities. GOAL: Become an outstanding research institution, emphasizing collaborative partnerships and entrepreneurship. Establish a venue for developing collaborative partnerships.  Develop institutional and college research agendas.  Expand the table of graduate programs to meet regional needs.  Develop grant activity to support doctoral programs.  Promote collaborative research partnerships.  Establish research forums to encourage collaborative partnerships.  Establish an avenue to capitalize on research collaborations with government and industry to encourage entrepreneurship.  Create the infrastructure to transform appropriate university research into commercial ventures. Develop an environment that includes and encourages transmission and production of knowledge research. Strategies Objectives UTPA 2012: A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-PAN AMERICAN

5. UTPA 2012: A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-PAN AMERICAN Approved by President Cárdenas November 21, 2005 Goals reordered January 31, 2006 5 Objectives Strategies Improve UTPA’s image with all constituencies. GOAL: Enhance UTPA’s engagement with the community to meet challenges and maximize opportunities. Empower community organizations to serve their own needs and engage UTPA to cooperate with their efforts.  Identify the levels of engagement our constituencies have with us.  Identify the specific needs of these constituencies.  Target strategies to the specific needs of these constituencies that will enhance UTPA’s image.  Publicize to the community UTPA’s resources and successful interventions.  Create innovative ways to send UTPA’s message to its audiences.  Institute change management so staff members accept revised responsibilities.  Prioritize and reward the focusing of intellectual resources on the development of external opportunities.  Build rewards into UTPA’s tenure/ promotion/merit criteria for faculty and staff.  Create structural relationships among all university divisions to take advantage of external opportunities.  Determine the intellectual resources needed. Identify and develop, along with the community, opportunities for research and inquiry. UTPA 2012: A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-PAN AMERICAN

6. UTPA 2012: A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-PAN AMERICAN Approved by President Cárdenas November 21, 2005 Goals reordered January 31, 2006 6 Inform the university community and external constituencies of the existing collaborations with P-12 schools. GOAL: Collaborate with P-12 schools to enlarge the pool of applicants who are personally prepared and academically qualified for higher education. Create an environment for P-12 schools to become collaboratively engaged with UTPA.  Prepare and disseminate comprehensive information regarding collaborations with P-12 schools.  Institutionalize a continuing dialogue between UTPA and P-12 schools to promote collaboration.  Involve colleges, departments and administrative units in P- 12 school collaborative efforts.  Create an institutional structure to support P-12 collaborations for preparing future UTPA students. Develop a UTPA-wide infrastructure to identify cooperative and collaborative partnership opportunities with P-12 schools. Objectives Strategies UTPA 2012: A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-PAN AMERICAN

7. UTPA 2012: A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-PAN AMERICAN Approved by President Cárdenas November 21, 2005 Goals reordered January 31, 2006 7 Expand the university community’s involvement in Inter-American/global issues. GOAL: Infuse Inter-American and global perspectives throughout the University community. Organize the management of Inter- American/global programs at UTPA to maximize opportunities.  Benchmark Inter-American/global issues, programs, exchanges, and services at targeted academic institutions, government agencies and private foundations.  Continuously improve the participation in and diversity of academic exchanges between people from around the world and UTPA students.  Institute a leadership structure to plan, promote and implement expansion of Inter-American/global foci.  Direct resources to Inter-American/global activities.  Develop incentives for participation in the development of Inter-American/global programs. Objectives Strategies UTPA 2012: A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-PAN AMERICAN

8. UTPA 2012: A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-PAN AMERICAN Approved by President Cárdenas November 21, 2005 Goals reordered January 31, 2006 8 Institute high quality organizational standards and processes. GOAL: Optimize institutional effectiveness and efficiency consistent with high quality organizational standards. Empower individuals to implement high quality standards and processes.  Establish UTPA standards.  Prepare faculty and staff to incorporate quality processes.  Establish incentives for implementation.  Acquire resources for application.  Create a culture of trust and accountability.  Create a culture that values faculty and staff input on high quality standards, and organizational and process innovations.  Create an environment of shared governance and responsibility.  Fully install and operate Oracle.  Fully install and operate Banner.  Improve business processes. Install adequate information management systems. Objectives Strategies UTPA 2012: A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS-PAN AMERICAN