2021-2024 Strategic Plan

Focus Area: Student Engagement

• Initiate and upper classmen or graduate mentorship program for undergraduates in major
• Develop guidelines for faculty mentors and student mentors
• Revise Bootcamp for incoming graduate cohort: assigning multiple faculty to teach topics or run activity within it.
• Promote undergraduate student involvement in faculty and clinical research through independent studies or funding

Focus Area: Recruitment and Retention of 学生

• Develop an informative flyer to send to high schools to promote the Communication Sciences and Disorders major at ISU.
• Connect with the university’s Project Success
• Use CD 119 as a recruitment course: Have faculty/adjuncts to present a day or two in area of interest/specialty; engage community
• practitioners in course
• Invite HS senior/juniors to campus or virtual meeting through HS counselors
• Develop undergraduate section of website
• Consider developing on-line pre-requisite/leveling courses; SLP-Assistant program

Focus Area: Faculty Recruitment and Development

• Recruit tenure-track and/or instructor faculty to fill retirement opening
• Stabilize instructor lines
• Ensuring money for CEUs from the department for all levels of faculty

Focus Area: 多样性 and Inclusiveness

• Develop contacts with high schools having underrepresented minority groups
• Develop study abroad or other global experiences

Focus Area: Accountability/Challenging students to achieve excellence

• Stress expected level of professionalism to students, level of commitment for class and clinic.
• Institute summative and formative assessments in each class at both the undergraduate and graduate levels
• Develop pre-tests of knowledge covered in previous courses to stop re-teaching concepts

Focus Area: Expanding opportunities

• Increasing literacy/reading as a service that we provide in the clinic.
• Initiate Adult aphasia support groups
• Increase interprofessional practice opportunities with school psychology and special education
• Investigate training or other forms of grants to support students and faculty scholarship
• 探索 converting CD 119 into a 基金会al studies course