--- type:slide --- --- # My priorities for the year ## Faculty * One TT line to search (political comm) * Other new lines --- nothing to report, but I want to work on this * Evaluations * Sophie -- Tenure and promotion review * Megan -- critical year review * Arleen -- review for promotion * Courtesy appointment possibilities * Lori Han -- Political Comm * Claudine Jaenichen -- Visual Comm --- ## Scholarship * Develop school-internal infrastructure for supporting your research * Encourage an aggressive agenda for grant writing (goal: 4? grant submissions this year) * Work closely with new VP of Research (beginning Oct 1) to build grant capacity --- ## Undergraduate Programs * Prioritize some growth number of students in UG programs * Global Comm and World Languages * Up to two additional courses integrating language coursework with comm studies * Comm Studies * We need to consider whether research methods courses are succeeding in their goals (student readiness) * Possibly a critical thinking course prior to research methods (might be done in cooperation with Philosophy) * Strategic and Corporate Comm * Is _corporate_ represented in the curriculum? * Are our current students attracted to _corporate_? * Critical thinking and language? * Student wellfare and progress * Apart from nuts and bolts, what is our message? How are we branding our school? --- ## Graduate Programs * Goal to increase numbers in our Integrated Master (4+1) and Master programs * Is Health Comm the right title? * Next year increase PhD intake * Mostly keep on the path Keith put us on --- ## Extra-curriculars * Chapman Radio * Rising in the charts with a bullet. * This is a big potential attractor * Trailblazers * Doing great as is, but I want to know ways to promote it * Student Advisory Council * I intend to be more involved this year * Speech and Debate * Would like to re-establish this * This is an important attractor, esp., for 1st gen students --- ## Development * Getting a dedicated (50%) development professional before end of year * Will be embedded with us (Robin and I have plan for office space) * My tasks: * Develop an industry advisory council * Work with adjacent programs to build donor interest * Political Science * Public Relations * World Languages * Engineering (HCI) * Film Studies --- # Strategic Plan * HSI plans * Increased emphasis on grad programs * Growth of the endowment relative to student-tuition * "Germinal" faculty * Not in Daniele's presentation: PPE