Strategic Planning
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Division of Student Affairs
Strategic Plan
Revised July 26, 2007
Core Values
- Quality Service
- Student Development
- Fostering Campus and Community and Engagement
- Primary Support for Academic Programs
- Student Affairs Leadership
- Ethics/Integrity
Vision
Inspiring student success: creating an environment that fosters student growth and life-long learning.
Mission Statement
The Division of Student Affairs supports the academic mission of the University by designing and delivering high quality programs, activities and services that lead to meaningful collegiate experiences in a diverse and inclusive environment. Student Affairs prepares students for engaged citizenship, ethical leadership, healthy and balanced lifestyles and personal and career success.
Strategic Outcomes
- Student Affairs provides a wide range of quality programs, activities and services that support the academic mission of the University.
- Student Affairs supports successful student learning that fosters ethical responsibility and leadership skills.
- Student Affairs fosters campus and community engagement in a diverse and inclusive environment.
- Student Affairs creates a culture of continuous learning and development that results in healthy and balanced lifestyle and personal and career success.
- Student Affairs serves as a catalyst for creating internal and external collaborative partnerships to support the mission of the Division and the University.
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Strategic Outcomes:
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Student Affairs provides a wide range of quality programs, activities and services that support the academic mission of the University.
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a. Partner with Academic Affairs on establishing learning communities in and outside of residential housing.
b. Collaborate with Academic Affairs on socio/cultural programming.
c. Analyze collected data about our students to determine priority areas for program development, expansion, and/or elimination.
d. Create and or identify employment opportunities, internships, research opportunities, and graduate assistantships to complement appropriate undergraduate and graduate programs.
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a.1. Partnerships established?
a.2. Number of program participants.
a.3. Number of learning components
b.1.Relationships with Academic
Affairs established?
b.2. Number and scope of programs
b.3. Scope of academic units
b.4. Program impact, learning
outcome
b.5. Student interviews-focus groups
b.6. Class presentations
c.1. Satisfaction
c.2. Participation
c.3. Needs assessment
c.4. Programs developed or
eliminated
d.1. Journals/portfolios
d.2. Survey undergraduate/ graduate
programs and
employers/personal contacts
d.3. Evaluate feasibility undergrad
research initiatives
d.4. Evaluate feasibility of
partnerships with alumni
association
d.5. Number of students/retention
d.6. Satisfaction
d.7. Conduct interviews with
participants of career
intervention services
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Student Affairs supports successful student learning that fosters ethical responsibility and leadership skills.
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a. Develop a comprehensive student leadership program collaboratively sponsored by the Division of Student Affairs.
b. Continue to support academic and social mentoring programs.
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a.1. Leadership program
established?
a.2. Assess definitions of leadership
a.3. Student learning outcomes
defined
a.4. Pre/Post measurements
a.5. Numbers of
participants/demographics
a.6. Satisfaction
a.7. Undergrad outcomes-alumni
b.1. Number of mentors and mentees
b.2. Satisfaction
b.3. Retention
b.4. Qualitative and quantitative
impact
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Student Affairs fosters campus and community engagement in a diverse and inclusive environment
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a. Utilize programming and effective collaboration to support a more engaged student body and campus community
b. Partner with the Chancellor’s Council on Inclusion to improve diversity awareness, education, and support for under-represented populations in the campus community.
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a.1. Number of programs
a.2. Number of new initiatives
a.3. Impacts institutional policy
a.3. Level of participation
a.4. Qualitative and quantitative
impact
b.1. Partnerships established?
b.2. Number and scope of
programs/services
b.3. Number of collaborations
b.4. Demographics of participants
and non-participants
b.5. Level of awareness-demographic
breakdown
b.6. Work with existing experts on
surveys (climate survey)
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Student Affairs creates a culture of continuous learning resulting in the development of a healthy, balanced lifestyle, and personal and career success
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a. Create and collaborate with Academic Affairs in developing curricular and co-curricular, on and off-campus opportunities which enable students to make meaningful educational, career, and life-style decisions.
b. Develop and market outreach programs in areas of health, wellness, and/or personal and career success.
c. Educate the campus community on multi-dimensional aspects and challenges of UWM students’ pathways to success.
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a.1. Additional opportunities created?
a.2 Number and scope of
opportunities
a.3. Pre-post measurements
b.1. Collaborate with academic units,
Alumni Association, and Student
Affairs departments
b.2. Scope and range of programs
b.3. Measure impact
b4. Evaluate needs assessment
b.5. Qualitative/quantitative impact
c.1 Use of benchmark data for
program review (NSSE, NCHA,
NIRSA, CAS, etc).
c.2. Campus studies used for
program review, e.g., senior
survey and employment follow-
up study.
c.3. Senior survey (follow up with
grads)
c.4. Number and scope of programs
c.5. Pre/Post measurement
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Student Affairs serves as a catalyst for creating internal and external collaborative partnerships to support the mission of the Division and the University.
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a. Create staff development initiatives which motivate and prepare our employees to serve as leaders in achieving the goals of the Division and the University.
b. Generate and present creative ideas regarding initiatives, collaboration, and solutions for review by Division’s leadership.
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a.1. Have programs been put in
place?
a.2. Number, scope, and range of
initiatives
a.3. Number of participants
a.4. Behavior changes-level of
involvement of participants
a.5. Satisfaction-job performance and
levels of responsibility.
a.6. Peer/subordinate assessment
(360 evaluation)
b.1. Happens or not
b.2. Number, scope, and range
b.3. Number of internal and external
units involved
b.4. Idea implemented or not
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University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Division of Student Affairs – Strategic Plan