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Priority 1. To improve our capacity to carry out research and outreach in applied psychology.
Priority 2. To encourage and sustain learning communities that spontaneously coalesce around important topics.
Goal 1. To improve the quality of our undergraduate program.
Goal 2. To improve the quality of our doctoral program.


Title: Priority 1. To improve our capacity to carry out research and outreach in applied psychology.
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Wed, 10/14/2009 - 21:34 — Sherwin Davidson
Administrative Unit: 
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Department or Unit Name: 
Psychology
Planning Year: 
2009
Institutional Themes: 
Achieve Global Excellence
Institutional Academic Initiatives: 
Improve retention/graduation rates
Increase externally sponsored activities/industry start ups/intellectual property management
Increase enrollment in community based learning courses
Unit initiative Description: 
To improve our capacity to carry out research and outreach in applied psychology.
Time Frame: 
More than 3 years/ongoing
Desired outcomes: 
+ Create and encourage forums to exchange ideas on key features of carrying out high quality research in community settings. + Create opportunities for sharing and acquiring methodological expertise. + Create structures that protect and promote our scholarship, such as a Center for Social and Community Action Research/ Coalition for Applied Research in the Community.
Measure of progress and success for this unit initiative: 
+ High quality research. + Hire excellent tenure-track faculty from around the world. + Attract excellent graduate applicants from around the world + Obtain external support for research from local, federal, and international agencies. + Cooperate with excellent programs and institutions world-wide. + National and international visibility.

Title: Priority 2. To encourage and sustain learning communities that spontaneously coalesce around important topics.
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Wed, 10/14/2009 - 21:37 — Sherwin Davidson
Administrative Unit: 
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Department or Unit Name: 
Psychology
Planning Year: 
2009
Institutional Themes: 
Provide Civic Leadership through Partnerships
Institutional Academic Initiatives: 
Improve retention/graduation rates
Increase externally sponsored activities/industry start ups/intellectual property management
Increase enrollment in community based learning courses
Unit initiative Description: 
To encourage and sustain learning communities that spontaneously coalesce around important topics of passionate interest to clusters of faculty and students.
Time Frame: 
More than 3 years/ongoing
Desired outcomes: 
+ Create ongoing intellectual conversations in which these topics can bubble up. + Foster collaborations among interested faculty and graduate and undergraduate students within and across areas. + Support relationships with faculty outside of psychology and with community partners. + Offer opportunities to learn about the activities, goals, and plans of these clusters.
Measure of progress and success for this unit initiative: 
+ Strong Occupational Health Psychology initiatives. + Strong Developmental Science and Education initiatives. + Strong Social Action Research initiatives. + Strong Applied Research Methodology initiatives.

Title: Goal 1. To improve the quality of our undergraduate program.
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Wed, 10/14/2009 - 21:39 — Sherwin Davidson
Administrative Unit: 
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Department or Unit Name: 
Psychology
Planning Year: 
2009
Institutional Themes: 
Improve Students Success
Institutional Academic Initiatives: 
Improve retention/graduation rates
Increase online offerings and enrollment
Increase enrollment in community based learning courses
Unit initiative Description: 
To offer an undergraduate program well supported by an emphasis on improving student learning through skilled teaching and a strong advising system. + Offer opportunities for full and part-time faculty, and graduate instructors to mentor and learn from each other about teaching. + Create sequences and concentrations of courses for undergraduates that enable increasing comprehension of psychological specialties as well as career planning. + Provide multiple opportunities for participation in research projects. + Provide strong advising in multiple formats at appropriate turning points.
Time Frame: 
2 years
Desired outcomes: 
+ Recruitment of excellent part-time faculty. + Cooperation of regular faculty with part-time faculty teaching same courses. + Improved advising system. + Curriculum review, integrated curriculum. + Use of data on previous enrollments to guide course planning. + Ongoing evaluation of teaching + Ongoing assessment of UG program
Measure of progress and success for this unit initiative: 
+ HIgh mean levels of teaching evaluations for all faculty. + High mean levels and/or increases in quantitative indicators on undergraduate assessment. + Positive feedback from graduating seniors in focus groups. + Use of assessment information to improve program. + Core curriculum and diverse offerings that are well-attended. + Retention of excellent part-time faculty.

Title: Goal 2. To improve the quality of our doctoral program.
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Wed, 10/14/2009 - 21:41 — Sherwin Davidson
Administrative Unit: 
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Department or Unit Name: 
Psychology
Planning Year: 
2009
Institutional Themes: 
Improve Students Success
Achieve Global Excellence
Enhance Educational Opportunities
Institutional Academic Initiatives: 
Improve retention/graduation rates
Increase externally sponsored activities/industry start ups/intellectual property management
Increase domestic non-resident & international enrollment
Unit initiative Description: 
To work with graduate students in an apprenticeship model as junior colleagues. + Create a developmentally-sequenced program that challenges students to learn how to do high quality applied research. + Foster close collaboration with faculty, research teams, and community partners in research. + Institutionalize opportunities for grad students to plot their own individual career trajectories. + Support a strong peer community among graduate students across many generations.
Time Frame: 
2 years
Desired outcomes: 
+ Assessment of graduate program from graduate student perspective. + Coordinated graduate curriculum. + Structured non-course supports (e.g., mentoring, research experiences). + Timely progress through developmental tasks (e.g, thesis). + Strong methodological training. + Faculty compensation for workload of graduate training.
Measure of progress and success for this unit initiative: 
+ Timely student progress through program. + HIgh level of methodological expertise. + High graduate student participation in research, publications, and presentations. + HIgh graduate student satisfaction with graduate experience. + High faculty satisfaction with workload of graduate training.

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Wed, 10/14/2009 - 21:43 — Sherwin Davidson
Administrative Unit: 
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Department or Unit Name: 
Psychology
Planning Year: 
2009
Institutional Themes: 
Provide Civic Leadership through Partnerships
Institutional Academic Initiatives: 
Increase enrollment in community based learning courses
Unit initiative Description: