Strategic Plan UpdateNovember 2005

Purdue Calumet Strategic Vision

• Student Success Retain and graduate more students

Grow enrollments to 10,500

• Preferred for the Quality of our Programs Beyond convenience

• Economic Development Place the resources of the university at the service of regional economic development

Goal 1Purdue University Calumet will expand access to student learning and improve the level of student success.

• Targets

•Retention rate: 72%•Fall 2003 (62%)

•Fall 2004 (64%)

•6 year graduation rate: 32%•Fall 2003 (21%)

•Fall 2004 (22%)

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Goal 1: Progress 2004-05

Student Success Network

•PUC 101

•1,530 students (for Fall 2004)

•98% satisfaction

•Parent participation

•Academic Renewal Program

•737 of 1,210 students on probation reenrolled

•Special orientation

•Learning Strategies course

•Early warning system

Goal 1: Progress 2004-05

Scholarships and Student Employment

•Best and Brightest Scholarships

•2004-05: 185

•2005-06: 200 additional

•Retention (F to S) 89%

•Student Employment

•489 students employed (goal:500)

•Average wage: $7.25-$7.50/hr.

Goal 1: Progress 2004-05

Student Life•Programs

•362 programs/13,000 participants

•Intramurals: 24 leagues/834 participants

•Peregrines brand introduced

•(Fall 04)

•Student lounge space renovated

•(Jan 05)

•Student government reconstituted

•(April 05)

Goal 1: Progress 2004-05

Residential Life

•Open Fall 2005

•282 residents/8 resident assistants

•40 beds for short-term programs

•83% occupancy

Goal 1: Future: 2005-06

•Complete housing lease ups

•Grow enrollments to 9,500

•Expand “Best and Brightest” scholarships

•Expand student life programs

Goal 2Purdue University Calumet will promote and support excellence of faculty and staff.

Goal 2: Progress 2004-05

Center for Professional Development

•Center for Instructional Excellence

•Lunch lecture series: 12 programs/average participation:24

•Mentoring program

•Director appointed: Dr. Lee Artz

Goal 2: Progress 2004-05

Grants and Contracts

•Awards: $5,046,110

•Academic Affairs funding +20%

•81 proposals submitted +11

•61 proposals funded +12

Goal 2: Progress 2004-05

Achieve competitive salaries(Mean for benchmark institutions)

•Faculty salaries: 88% of peer mean

•(losing ground; 91% in 2003)

•Staff salaries: 97% of comparison group

•(up from 95% in 2003)

Goal 2: Progress 2004-05

Achieve competitive salaries

•Added .5% for EMME in 04-05

•Established (5) endowed professorships through Lilly program

Goal 2: Progress 2004-05

Increase full-time faculty

•Conversion of 20 continuous lecturer positions

•17 new hires to date

•Tenure track faculty: 62%

•Fall 2005

•Up from 58%

Goal 2: Future: 2005-06

•Continuation of new faculty hiring

•Implement staff development program

•Transition faculty development from voluntary program to systemic program

•Expand grants and contracts efforts

Goal 3Purdue University Calumet will support a high performance work and learning environment.

Goal 3: Progress 2004-05

Strengthen technology infrastructure

•Wireless network on campus

•5 locations installed

•High speed computing grid

•Funded for 05-06

•Adoption of web-based learning systems (wbls)

•65% of students enrolled in at least one “wbls” course

•22% of students enrolled in at least one distance course

•OnePurdue

Goal 3: Progress 2004-05

Academic Learning Center

•Open Fall 2005

•1,064 students•1,463 registrations

•39% new to PUC

•69 courses

•Collaboration with IUN•6 courses

Goal 3: Future: 2005-06

•Continue to seek approval for Emerging Technologies Tower

•Begin phased Gyte renovations

•Expand use of wireless connections, web-based learning software, smart classrooms

•Implementation of OnePurdue

Goal 4Purdue University Calumet will expand its role as a vital partner for positive change and economic growth in northwest Indiana

Goal 4: Progress 2004-05

Technology and Business Center•Purdue Northwest Indiana Technology Park

•Clients: •9committed

•2 related tenants

•TAP program office

•Director: •Hired John Hanak

•Management: •Transition under discussion

Goal 4: Progress 2004-05

Expand program advisory boards

• Advisory boards increased from 8 to 20

•Board membership increased from 143 to 249Program boards in Management, Education and Gerontology inactive; to be reconstituted

Goal 4: Progress 2004-05

New program creation: Centers and Institutes

• Water Institute

•Center for Energy Efficiency and Reliability

•Center for Minorities and Women in Construction

•Center for Education in Science and Technology

•NWI Center for Evidence-based Nursing Practice

Goal 4: Progress 2004-05

Increase Internships

• Baseline of 1260 internships per year

•2004-05: 1,482 internships

•17.6% increase

Goal 4: Future: 2005-06

• Expand Centers/Institutes activities

•Develop plan for Tech Center transfer to PUC

•Develop plan to make experiential learning part of every program curriculum

Goal Years2002-2006

Recurring Non-Recurring

Total

1: Student Success

$3,722,553 $1,397,822 $5,120,375

2: Faculty/Staff Development

$2,012,450 $2.012,450

3: High Performance Learning Environment

$416,536 $1,785,097 $2,021,633

4: Partners for Economic Development

$1,007,620 $1,040,027 $2,047,647

Total $7,159,159 $4,222,946 $11,382,105

Strategic Allocations

Challenges

• Faculty/staff salaries

•Enrollment management•Continue growth to 10,500

•Ground actions in institutional research

•Maintain access and diversity while improving quality

• Campus response to residential life

•International Students

Opportunity

• Good to Great

•Tier 4 to Tier 3

•Experiential Learning as a curricular component in all programs for all students