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Board of Trustees Retreat

Strategic Plan Year Three Update

October 2018

Undergraduate Student Success

Objective One:

Be the University of choice for aspiring undergraduate students within the Commonwealth and beyond, seeking a transformational education that promotes self-discovery, experiential learning, and life-long achievement.


Strategic Initiatives:

1) Enhance the success of our increasingly diverse student body

and help ensure timely degree completion and career planning

through high-impact, student-centered support systems

2) Enhance students’ learning and their preparation for

contributing to a rapidly changing world as leaders and scholars

through the provision of new and innovative curricular offerings

and state-of-the-art teaching

3) Enrich students’ undergraduate education through

transformational experiences of self-discovery and learning


Baseline AY 2015-16 AY 2016-17 AY 2017-18 AY 2018-19 2020 Goal

Retention

Rates

1st Year 82.2% 82.7% 81.7% 83.3% 84.5% 90.0%

2nd Year 74.9% 74.9% 74.1% 74.3% 74.6% 85.5%

3rd Year 69.7% 70.1% 69.1% 68.4% 68.3% 82.0%

Graduation

Rates

4-Year 38.5% 40.4% 44.2% 44.8% 47.1% 53.0%

6-Year 60.2% 61.3% 63.6% 64.6% 65.8% 70.0%

Graduation

Rate Gaps

Underrepresented

Minority (URM)16.7% 23.5% 13.0% 15.2% 14.2% 9.8%

First

Generation

7.8% 14.1% 16.7% 18.2% 16.7% 8.0%

Pell

Recipients

15.0% 19.1% 16.2% 19.6% 17.1% 8.0%

AY 2018-19 is preliminary


First-Year Experience Philosophy• Engage students in their transition to

University life

• Embrace opportunities to promote intellectual and personal growth

• Foster a sense of belonging, well-being, and community through curricular, co-curricular, and extracurricular activities

• Offer a balance of support and challenges

Next Steps • Set first-year learning goals and outcomes

• Develop and deliver faculty professional development

• Review and assess practices for continuous improvement

Graduate Education

Objective Two:

Strengthen the quality and distinctiveness of our graduate programs to transform our students into accomplished scholars and professionals who contribute to the Commonwealth, the nation, and the world through their research and discovery, creative endeavors, teaching, and service.

Graduate Education


1) Recruit and retain outstanding graduate students from all backgrounds

2) Invest in graduate programs that have distinctive synergy with UK’s research priorities and/or whose graduate students demonstrate excellence at the national or global levels

3) Elevate the quality and richness of the graduate student experience and increase the national competitiveness of UK’s graduate programs

Graduate Education


Doctoral

Program

Selectivity

25.0% 32.4% 29.4% 30.5% 30.9% 22.0%

Graduate

Degrees

Awarded

1,591 1,555 1,548 1,507 1,586 1,639

Diversity of

Graduate

Enrollment

African

American/

Black

4.5% 4.6% 4.7% 4.5% 4.6% 7.7%

Hispanic/

Latino

2.6% 2.4% 2.5% 2.9% 3.3% 2.7%


Graduate Education

Online Graduate Degrees

• Online master’s degrees• Master’s in Applied Statistics ranked in top 10

nationally

• Master’s in Digital Mapping

• Integrating market analysis• Program development

• Program improvements

Leveraging International Partnerships• FastTrack pathways from bachelor’s to

master’s• 3+2 Jilin University in Public Health

• Developing new partnerships with the Gatton College of Business and Economics, the College of Engineering, and the College of Arts and Sciences

Outreach and Community

Engagement

Objective Three:

Leverage leading-edge technology, scholarship, and research in innovative ways to advance the public good and to foster the development of citizen-scholars.


Engagement

Strategic Objectives:

1) Renew our institutional commitment to promote the public good through the sustainable application of our expertise and resources to meet challenges and disparities associated with social, economic, environmental, educational, and health issues

2) Deepen student learning through community engagement


EngagementBaseline 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2020 Goal

Unified Reporting

Structure

Number of

Reporting

Structures

25+ 3 3 3 1

Faculty & Staff

Delivering Outreach &

Community Engagement

Faculty Teaching

Courses

14.3% 15.3% 17.4% Available

after Nov

2018

25.8%

Staff Teaching 1.4% 1.5% 1.4% Available

after Nov

2018

3.3%

Opportunities for Students Community

Engagement

Courses

329 331 337 329 429

Partnerships Identified

Partnerships

100 7,082 Under

development

2017-18 is preliminary


Engagement

Innovative Digital Badges for Student Engagement

• Documenting student competencies in Service Engagement, Civic Engagement, and Active Citizenship

Peace Corps Prep Partner• New program in development to build student

competencies desired by Peace Corps• Sector-specific skills

• Foreign language proficiency

• Intercultural competency

• Professional savvy and leadership

• Integrates coursework and hands-on experience

• Leads to a certificate issued by Peace Corps

Diversity and Inclusivity

Objective Four:

Enhance the diversity and inclusivity of our University community through recruitment and retention of an increasingly diverse population of faculty, administrators, staff, and students, and by implementing initiatives that provide rich diversity-related experiences for all to help ensure their success in an interconnected world.



1) Foster a diverse community of engaged students

2) Improve workforce diversity and inclusion

3) Engage diverse worldviews and perspectives by increasing awareness of diversity and by communications across campus that address these issues



Enrollment of URM

students

Undergraduate 14.7% 15.3% 16.1% 16.6% 16.5% 16.2%

Graduate 8.4% 8.9% 10.5% 9.4% 10.3% 11.8%

Graduation Rate for

URM students

Bachelor 45.2% 40.7% 52.4% 51.9% 54.2% 60.2%

Masters 70.9% 64.9% 61.8% 67.4% 67.0% 78.0%

Doctoral 45.5% 47.1% 38.5% 63.6% 53.8% 68.0%

Employment of

Faculty

Women 37.1% 38.0% 38.9% 39.1%Data available

after Nov 2018 48.2%

African American/

Black

3.4% 3.5% 3.6% 3.7%Data available

after Nov 2018 6.9%

Hispanic/Latino 3.0% 3.1% 3.2% 3.5%Data available

after Nov 2018 4.2%

Employment of

Executives

Women 48.9% 46.8% 47.4% 47.8%Data available

after Nov 2018 50.0%

African American/

Black

3.5% 4.0% 4.6% 4.5%Data available

after Nov 2018 7.9%


after Nov 2018 6.1%

Employment of Staff African American/

Black

4.3% 4.6% 4.3% 4.6%Data available

after Nov 2018 5.1%


after Nov 2018 1.5%



Culture of Conversation: “Exploring Invisible Issues”

• Financial need

• Food insecurity

• Mental health

• Sexual assault

Critical Conversations on Race and Teaching

• Creating learning communities and fostering belonging

• Universal design for learning

• Facilitating, managing, and responding to difficult

dialogues

Faculty Learning Communities

• Teaching veterans (14 participants from six colleges)

• Teaching for equity (12 participants from five colleges)


Leadership Development Programs• Chairs Academy I and II

• Bluegrass Higher Education Consortium Academic Leadership Academy

• Women’s Executive Leadership Development Program (WELD)

• 260 total faculty participants

• 62% women, 10% URM

Southeastern Conference Academic Leadership Development Program

• 33 UK fellows completed the program

• 62% women, 19% URM

• 76% hold executive positions

Research and Scholarship

Objective Five:

Expand our scholarship, creative endeavors, and research across the full range of disciplines to focus on the most important challenges of the Commonwealth, our nation, and the world.



1) Invest in UK's existing strengths and areas of growth in selected focus areas that benefit and enrich the lives of the citizens of the Commonwealth and beyond

2) Recruit and retain outstanding faculty, staff, and students who support our research and scholarship across the range of disciplines at the University

3) Improve the quality of the research infrastructure across campus

4) Strengthen engagement efforts and translation of research and creative work for the benefit of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the nation, and the world


Baseline FY 2014-15 FY 2015-16 FY 2016-17 2020 Goal

Total Research &

Development

Expenditures

All $328.2 M $331.7 M $349.7 M $378.4 M $364 M

Federal Only $142.3 M $146.5 M $154.6 M $171.3 M $159 M

Ranking of

Doctoral Programs

Leiden Ranking 51.1% n/a 51.1% 52.0% n/a

Research Space $/sq foot $191 $197 $209 $209 $300

Licenses Exclusive

Licenses

100 101 105 106 177

License Income $3.3 M $1.0 M $6.5 M $2.4 M $3.5 M

FY 2016-17 is preliminary

Research Scholarship and

Extramural Funding

Faculty Excellence• Endowed Chair

• F. Joseph Halcomb III Chair in Biomedical Engineering established

• Cluster hires in Computer Science (Engineering) and Cancer Biology (Medicine)

Research Funding Success• Markey Cancer Center

• Renewal of National Cancer Institute designation ($10.8 million) and Cancer Registry ($37 million)

• Gender and heart disease• $3.7 million grant from American

Heart Association

Research Facilities and

Equipment

Multidisciplinary

Research Building

• Phase 1 opened September

2018

Internal Research

Equipment Competitions

• $5.7 million in research

equipment purchases in

high-priority areas

Questions?

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