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The Drury Community: Engaging Our Future
Entrepreneurial student-centered community
We will strengthen and sustain an entrepreneurial student-centered community characterized by exceptional faculty and staff committed to personalized education, the integration of liberal and professional learning, and global engagement. We will be committed to: Engaging Students - secure scholarship funds and endowments to assure continued access to higher education for dedicated students
- strengthen academic support programs for all students, including adult learners on satellite campuses and in online programs
- promote undergraduate scholarly experiences to develop reflective students and practitioners in all academic disciplines
- increase internship opportunities to promote integration of liberal and professional learning
- develop new graduate and undergraduate programs and sites that respond to the changing intellectual landscape, new educational markets and global demographics in an intellectually and fiscally viable manner (e.g., landscape architecture, behavioral neuroscience, Asian Studies, music therapy, studio art, sustainability studies)
- develop curricular and co-curricular programs to address the changing needs of second-year students as they transition through their college careers
- implement student intellectual biography/portfolio as framework for demonstrating intellectual growth during college career
- enhance intramural and extra-curricular opportunities and facilities
- identify and provide resources for student-led efforts to develop spaces and programming that will motivate students to stay and be part of the campus community at night and on weekends
Engaging Faculty - recruit/retain the nation's finest faculty teacher/scholars committed to personalized education and accessibility to students
- develop equitable and competitive compensation structures with all faculty levels ranked in the top quartile of Masters I/II universities (adjusted for COL)
- develop faculty load structures which allow excellence in all aspects of faculty work, including revision of formal faculty load to credit the full range of faculty responsibilities and support enhanced expectations for appropriate mission-driven scholarly productivity by 2012
- create 3 year individual, departmental and institutional ‘growth plans' in which each level informs and is informed by the others
- enhance formative and summative faculty evaluation procedures to assure excellence in all aspects of faculty work
- endow 10-20% of all faculty positions by 2015
- develop and endow a dynamic Center for Faculty Excellence
- create post-doctoral teaching positions for outstanding future faculty members
- secure external and endowed funds to provide competitive scholarship support funds
Engaging Staff - recruit/retain the nation's finest outstanding professional staff committed to personalized education and accessibility to students
- develop equitable and competitive compensation structures for all staff positions
- create and implement professional development plans for all staff members
- nurture and sustain a culture of courtesy
- engage staff, faculty and administration beyond departmental boundaries
- enhance staff role in campus governance
Engaging Community - enrich relationships between students, staff, faculty, administration, and alumni through increased involvement by faculty, staff, and administration in alumni affairs
- develop educational and community service programs that inform and are informed by our institutional commitment to the Ozark region
- strengthen intercollegiate and intramural athletics programs
- enhance leadership opportunities through the Greek system and its integration into campus life
- contribute to regional economic and environmental vitality through programs of the Edward Jones Center, Center for Sustainable Environments and appropriate community outreach courses.
Engaging (the) World - require study away experiences for all traditional undergraduate students and provide external and endowed funding for scholarships to support this initiative
- increase international travel/study opportunities for staff and faculty
- develop wider diversity in curricular offerings to more accurately reflect global diversity, particularly in languages and world cultures
- design and implement ‘global pathways' through GP21 to focus and enrich student global learning opportunities
- craft appropriate strategic partnerships with universities, governments and businesses around the world to increase student/faculty exchange, internship opportunities and new programming options
- develop and implement a campus-wide plan for sustainability in all campus operations
- increase utilization of new information technologies to enhance global learning
Engaging Lives - develop flexible working structures that facilitate healthy relationship between professional and personal lives
- reinforce Drury's spiritual traditions and seek to understand the diverse spiritual needs of all members of the Drury community
- assure we are meeting needs for professional student counseling
- develop programs to promote life-long learning skills and opportunities
- increase staffing in Counseling Center
- provide credit and non-credit personal development classes for members of the community
- revitalize alumni mentoring program to bridge generational divides
- expand mentoring opportunities for students
- reinforce vitality of shared campus governance
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